Formation over Wilsonville, OR
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The report, as filed
Space Link satellites, launched Thursday evening, May 23rd. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #146271). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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May 11, 2022 · 1:12 PM · DISK
Wilsonville, OR
We noticed a very strange looking 4 piece contrail from aircraft we did not see or hear. I took a picture of the contrails then moved to earlier portion of trail and saw the object in my iPhone 10 camera photo.
July 25, 2018 · 6:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Wilsonville, OR
This may be nothing. But I wanted to report it to corroborate in case others report it also. I drive every morning from Newberg, Oregon, on Wilsonville Rd. to the I-5 on-ramp in Wilsonville. This is a country road about 12 or so miles with many curves and heavily forested. There are no sidewalks or safe places to walk. There are many houses off the road and usually the owners are the only people you'll ever see standing on the road waiting for cars to clear so they can cross and check their mailbox. Today, about a few hundred yards before the Ladd Hill Rd. stop sigh and intersection I saw two strange looking "people" walking east along the road towards Wilsonville, i.e. in the same direction I was going. Both were tall and thin enough to notice, in other words maybe 6'2" or 6'3". Both wearing black calf-length boots and brown close-fitting clothing with what appeared to be dark colored jackets. As I came up on them they seemed to be walking with a strange sort of gait. (I'm pretty sure this is not just my imagination) I was not driving fast but I seemed unable to get a good look at their heads (almost like they were blurred) and as I drove past them and looked in my rear view mirror they actually seemed to turn their heads so I could not get a look at their faces! This all seemed unusual to me. You just don't see people walking on that road, and if you ever do it's usually a "hippy kid" who is trying to get your attention, thumbing a ride, not avoiding you looking at them. Strange. Like I said, maybe nothing but it felt weird at the time. Weird enough that I'm taking a different route to work tomorrow.
October 4, 2017 · 9:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Wilsonville, OR
I stepped outside to view the full moon around 9:00pm tonight,the 4th of October. I was standing alone looking up at the moon. It was quiet except for the distant muffled sound of the freeway. Suddenly, I heard an extremely loud, low pitched pulsing sound to my right. As I turned towards it two very large, dark rectangular objects appeared abruptly over the nearby tree tops. They were identical. Each one had a large red light and a few smaller white lights. Each was approximately the size of 2 RVS together. There were no propellers. I was standing in a wide open space and they flew right over it, lower than a helicopter would. As soon as they passed over me, I ran into the shadows of the trees and waited for my heart to calm down. I was shaken enough I needed to talk to someone and went to speak to a man who lives next door in a tiny house he has converted from a former MRI truck. It weighs 34,000 pounds! Why am I emphasizing the weight? Because this man was on the phone with his mother when he heard a loud pulsing sound and his entire tiny house truck began to shake. Not just vibrate, it shook. He came out and we discussed it at length. My ex-husband served in the Marine Corps for 21 years. I have lived on bases all over the world. I have never seen or heard anything like this, flying overhead before. ((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Hello Peter, Turns out we have a helicopter airport nearby that specializes in heavy lift operations. They have Chinooks in their fleet. My partner believes that's what I saw last night. Still. . . no propellers seen on a night with an intensely bright full moon. Hmmmm. ((END ADDENDUM)) ((ADDENDUM #2 FROM WITNESS)) Peter the moon was extremely bright as they flew right over me, with the moon as backdrop and still I saw no propellers. Also only one, unblinking, red light. A few scattered small white lights, also not blinking. ((END ADDENDUM #2)) ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #3)) Yes I saw only one large red light on each and a scattering of small white lights on each. I did call the helicopter place and left a voicemail for a call back. ((END ADDENDUM #3)) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be both sincere, and serious-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent witness. PD
July 26, 2017 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Wilsonville, OR
I was standing outside on the porch to look around and check the weather, and looked up for unknown reason(s). I saw a bright oval shaped object traveling in an south to north declination at approximately 45 deg as I was roughly facing north. It was a silvery bright color almost like an LED light. I immediately grabbed my binoculars and got the object in sight. I zoomed in and could not make out any shape other than oval. It had be traveling at relatively high speed from my vantage point and appeared larger than a satellite. When I initially saw it with my naked eye, I believe that I made the best sighting at that time. The object had no red, green, or any other blinking lights. It made no sound.
October 24, 2015 · 5:02 PM · OTHER
Wilsonville, OR
There was an air balloon flying near Wilsonville, Oregon, on October 24, 2015, at around 5 pm, I was looking at it and the surrounding sky, when I was looking at the southern sky area I noticed a "shiny object" near a cloud that moved "odd," it was still for a little while and then turned in a circular manner changing direction towards the north (Portland, OR), it moved for a little while going north, the object stopped and hovered near another cloud, it stay there for another while, then kept moving again towards the north until it was no longer visible. The object was WAY up in the sky, it looked shinny, possibly metallic, and had a roundish shape, it was way up there so couldn't really make out any specific details. I had a camcorder with me and was so excited I was watching a "UFO", I thought I was recording the object, but unfortunately forgot to push the record button, only got a tiny segment and some frames, it was very difficult to see on the camcorder anyways. A friend was walking with me, I told him to look, he got to see the object too, not just me. I'm reporting it just in case someone else might have seen the same object in the sky around the same time.
June 19, 2014 · 6:17 PM · SPHERE
Wilsonville, OR
Sighting 6-19-2014 from 6:17 to 6:22 PM PST pm Wilsonville, Oregon, small-appearing, spherical white, pearl-like object WITHIN OUR ATMOSPHERE, very high up, I am gut-guessing that it was at over 2o,ooo feet but difficult to say without anything to compare it to. It was at most 5% to 10% the size of a full moon when the moon is at it highest point in the sky. Fixed, not moving at all, appeared to be NAILED TO THE SKY, impervious to any wind whatsoever. Had it moved at all during the observation we would have assumed that it was a child's balloon. Difficult to spot in the first place, my wife only saw it because we were on our backs sky-gazing, even when she pointed to it, it took me a good ten seconds to lock onto it myself. Binoculars failed to reveal any detail. No camera that we have access to would have been worthy of capturing it. While I was fumbling for a better pair of binocs, object virtually winked out of existence while my wife had her eyes locked onto it. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be a very capable, and sober-minded, individual. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD