Light over McMinnville, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
This, rather large looking object has moved in the sky 3 times now. It is stationary otherwise. It is quite bright. If it is a ufo, I have no idea why it would be here. All we have is an armory, Evergreen and some (suspected) military installations in and around or near a neighboring town.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174957). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-05-29 → 2022-06-15
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August 13, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
McMinnville, OR
At approximately 9:40pm we went outside to see if we could see a few meteors. I was waiting for my Dad and my son was running around the driveway. I looked up from the ramp onto the deck and noticed a sparkly looking star that was moving kind of strange. It was a little erratic like it zigged a little one way and then zagged back the other way. It also appeared to emit something or sparkle. I pulled up Sky Tonight and nothing in the spot and it was moving so I figured it wasn't a star. I did record video which is hard to do with a phone at night. This is one of a few sightings I have had out here. Each sighting has kind of triggered my anxiety and made me a little nervewracked and not wanting to or being able to sleep. They seem to be getting more and more frequent. I am completely sober. I don't drink or do drugs or anything. I don't even smoke or vape. I am going to upload the video to YouTube like I have done before and add the link to this report. https://youtu.be/8NAtL7cBSes
July 11, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CHANGING
McMinnville, OR
I was looking out my bathroom window at approximately 9:45pm and spotted something in the sky. I was looking west and I pulled up my Sky Tonight app to see if any stars or anything lined up with this object and nothing did. I still am new to the Sky Tonight app though. This object seemed mostly stationary but at the end of the video it did seem to move a little. It also appears to change shape a little and also seems to have a haze around it. This is not my first or only sighting of something odd. Here is the short video link I uploaded to YouTube. I also have two photographs as well. There was just the one and just me that saw it. When I looked through the window an hour later and for anything like it I didn't see anything and I live in the country where everything is easily visible. https://youtube.com/shorts/HJB7boUn0Eo?feature=share4
October 31, 2022 · 2:49 AM · LIGHT
McMinnville, OR
Unexplained light showed up on our Nest camera on our front deck approximately 2:49am. Has never been recorded before and at first thought it was a reflection but with the light seeming to flare or pulse it is not a reflection. No wind or anything at this time. I have logged a couple other sightings from out here but nothing has ever been this close and we don't know what it is if anything.
July 3, 2021 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
McMinnville, OR
My son who is special needs and I went outside to look at the stars. It was almost 11pm. The skies were clear and there was zero traffic on our road, no planes or anything in the sky, no sound or anything. We live about 3 miles outside of McMinnville city limits and I have lived in this area majority of my life so I know when something is off. I was playing with the settings of the camera on my new phone and I spotted something down the road. There was at first only a green sphere and then there was a secondary reddish orange colored sphere. They didn't appear to be on the ground but close to it. The lights would fade in and out. There wasn't any fireworks or anything being set off, no sound, no traffic, nothing. I was able to get it on video for about a minute. There almost appeared to be a haze around them in the video and I did have to zoom it in to be able to see what was going on. I just felt kind of in awe of what I was seeing but sort of scared and nervous at the same time. My son is fearless and when I stopped filming he said "Mom.....we need to go in...NOW!!!" It was just odd. There wasn't any air traffic or planes going over or anything and other than the voices of myself and my son on the video and there is nothing but those 2 different lights that seem to hover and the light of them fades in and out. The area they were at down the road is nothing but open fields. It was just bizarre. I have had other experiences out here but this is the most recent one.
March 7, 2021 · 8:15 PM · RECTANGLE
McMinnville, OR
Sitting on the edge of my bed, taking off my socks, I looked up through the sliding glass door on the opposite wall and saw a very bright “star”. Immediately, I knew it could not be a star because it was cloudy that night. I stood up and walked to the glass trying to see what it was. I was looking to the North. The light was bright white and appeared to be 2 lights on the same craft. The upper light was almost the full length of the craft, the lower light was square and connected by something black or dark, about the same size. I only saw lights and the dark connecting piece. It was so bright I believe it would be visible in daylight. The lights moved completely in tandem. They were each the same color and brightness as Venus. Both lights had a twinkle effect like stars. The object was about 1/2” tall at arm’s length, a narrow vertical rectangular light moving erratically within about a 1” x 1” area: north, south, east and west, gradually moving to the West. If the object was 1/2” tall overall, it would be about 3/32” wide. The bottom light would be about 3/32” square. The black area between the 2 lit areas was also about 3/32” square. I moved around making sure of what I was seeing. It was not a reflection on the glass or on the clouds. I heard no sound, my cat did not react, I didn’t open the window. The object gradually, still erratically, moved west behind a tree in my backyard. At arm’s length it moved about 1” to the West before it was no longer visible. This took about 1-1/2 minutes. It was about as high as two, 2-story houses from my 2nd-floor vantage point. My Background: 77 years old; retired artist; mom & grandmother; live with a cat
November 1, 2020 · 3:30 AM · CHANGING
McMinnville, OR
I looked out my bathroom window and saw what I at first believed to be a bright star that was low in the sky. On further inspection the star-like object while stationary hovered just below the tops of the hills. It continued to hover but appeared to change shape like from a circle to a v like shape to a line and it was bright but was a soft white in color and changed to an amberish-orange color. I watched it morph shape and change color without moving for approximately 5 minutes before returning to bedroom and I haven't been able to go back to sleep. I've seen other "lights" out here but they didn't seem so close. I just found this website as well. I have had a few experiences I can't explain.