Other over Cape Perpetua, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving back from Cottage Grove, Oregon, on Hwy 101, I pulled over to take photos of the unusual and beautiful clouds over the ocean. I'm a photographer, have been for many years. There was a clearing in the clouds that I had observed. And, in between the clouds was an opening. I saw without my camera which appeared to be smoke trails from an aircraft. Was a long white line. So, got out my camera with a 2,000mm lens in it and was taking shots. What I saw through the viewfinder was completely different from what I had seen with naked eye. There were 5 circles of light, not moving or doing anything. They were just there. One of them looked like it had a faint light in the center of it, the rest invisible with a ring of bright light around it. Very unusual....
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144969). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-02-17 → 2019-03-06