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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.

3,193 entries

October 29, 2020 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE

Beaverton, OR

For the past week between midnight and 2am I have seen a circular shaped object in the sky that moves extremely slow and has multicolored lights flashing colors of red, blue, green, and white lights. I live in an area where air traffic going to and from Portland airport is a constant appearance and I know what an aircraft looks like. The object with the multicolored lights is definitely not an aircraft coming or going from the airport. I have never seen anything like this object and I would like to know if anyone can explain what it is?

October 28, 2020 · 6:35 AM · LIGHT

Willamina, OR

We went outside and were looking at the stars when I noticed that there was an unusual straight line of stars, Then noticed they were moving! We saw a single line formation of lights move across the sky. There were more than 20 and span across the full sky as far as we could see. We continued to watch until we couldn’t see anymore of them.

October 28, 2020 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE

Gresham, OR

Was throwing out garbage then looked up, I thought the stars were moving and then I caught myself stars don't move like that!!! I looked closely and saw a formation of circled shaped objects all in one very long line following a path, all moving and shinning, these were not orbes and definitely not stars. I counted 60 when I finally reacted and ran to get my cell phone to record!!! This event was very scary, I thought if an invasion exists this looks like it, I have to report it! I called Sherriffs office and 311 but no one answered! I left a message no responce. So here I am making this report online.

October 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT

Cottage Grove, OR

I was sitting in our hot tub around 9 pm on Tuesday evening on 10/27/2020. Because of the deck with overhead roof where the hot tub is located, I can get a clear view of the entire northern and western skies from my vantage point. I was gazing up at the clear night sky, and despite some light pollution, there were stars visible. As I continued to star gaze, I saw in the northwest direction an extraordinary light, much larger than any shooting star, comet, or meteor that I’ve ever seen. It appeared more like an explosion out of no where, with no sound that lasted about 3 seconds, then gone. As I stared in total awe of this bright light, about 4 seconds later I witnessed that same extraordinary explosion type light much farther west and south of the initial light. This 2nd light was quite a distance away, and felt like a quicker flash than the first light before vanishing. It almost seemed in that instant that it’s trajectory was straight up. I have spent many nights star gazing. My previous residence was in a remote location within a few miles from a national forest boundary where light pollution was non existent. It truly was a place where one would describe as a black velvet night with millions upon millions of sparkling gems. In all of my years of seeing meteors/comets, shooting stars, and various satellites, I have never seen a light flash such as what I witnessed last night.

October 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN

Salem, OR

Aircraft (to the South-West) at High Altitude, in Southern Sky, slowly moving Northbound. Silent --No Sound/Noise. Extreme, Very Bright, High-Intensity White light(s). Extreme Bright Lights, Way out of the Ordinary. (Many times brighter than Moon, Planets, Star, or any ordinary Commercial Aircraft). Multiple lights formed a short vertical line (length or aircraft?) for 30 min. or more. I have never seen anything so incredibly Intense, like it before (especially from so great a distance/altitude). Aircraft changed direction/Altitude? causing White line of Lights to merge into a single bright Spot (approx. 5 min). Then Aircraft turned to the South (180 degrees), causing bright White light to disappear. Bright white light was replaced with Flashing Red/Green Marker lights of an Aircraft. Aircraft went south for 10 min. then turned 180 Degrees and headed North again. Bright white Spot light re-appeared again, but not as intense (approx. 10 min.). Then, Turned South Again, showing Red/Green Marker Lights. Aircraft continued Traveling further South, disappearing into Southern Sky.

October 24, 2020 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL

Keizer, OR

Was a flickering light traveling horizontally at double the speed of a typical aircraft. Had no sound. Looked light a very bright oil lantern flying through the night air. Was orange in color.

October 21, 2020 · 3:00 AM · FORMATION

Tangent, OR

My girlfriend spotted a bright orange light in the sky through the window and called me over to look at it. We sat there and watched it for about 30 minutes and it appeared it was going up and down in elevation. All of a sudden the light start to appear to go further and further away. The light got dimmer then, almost straight out of a movie, the light appeared to Shrink and elongate, and shoot off into space leaving a sort of dust cloud as it took off, we sat there in absolute disbelief of what we just saw. We were both trembling and had no idea what to do or how to react. We sat there for quite sometime and kept looking out the window, about 40 min to an hr past and we decided to get back in bed. As we were climbing into bed she looks over and sees the orange light returning. I got a terrible feeling in my stomach and tell her to stay in bed and not to go back to the window. We sit there and watch it again for about 20 minutes or so. She decided to get up and go to the window and record the light. We try to zoom in on it but the quality isn’t the best. She records it for about 15-20 minutes but it stay put and does nothing. It’s now almost 6am. And we decide to go to bed. When we wake up we decide to look at the video she recorded and what we saw was beyond belief. The orange light appears to exploded and turn into a rubix cube type figure. It appears to have point folding in on eachother. We didn’t know we captured it on video until we rewatched the footage.

October 19, 2020 · 10:30 PM · OVAL

Portland, OR

Glowing red orange light with two small blinking red and yellow lights behind it. It seemed fairly close to the ground, the size of your pointer fingernail in the sky above Mt tabor. It made no noise and kept a steady pace while flying over. Originally mistook it as a Paper lantern when it was in the distant before it made its way past me. It seemed to be glowing from inside itself.

October 18, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT

Eagle point, OR

I was driving my friend home when as clear as day I see something shoot across the sky over the hills, Weirdly enough it didn’t have a light trail. My friend was there to hear my reaction but wasn’t able to see it himself because he was on his phone. I wouldn’t consider my self crazy and I believe in logical explanations but I’m failing to see the logic in this. The visual reminded me of a video I once saw of a tracer fire light but appearing to have come from the sky. I suppose there was a little bit of a light trail but not like one you would see from a shooting star. Was definitely not a shooting star.

October 15, 2020 · 6:00 AM · FORMATION

Keizer, OR

Night sky, clear, and 43f. Lots of stars. I was at work, in the warehouse yard looking at the big dipper. As my gaze dropped I picked up movement of a solid white light, no blinking, as you do when seeing a satellite. I even said to myself look a satellite. Then I observed a second light, same altitude, and along the same path SSW to NNE. So I thought a military flight. As I continued to observe, I saw a third, fourth and Fifth solid none blinking lights along the same flight path. I then thought a whole military squadron. I continued counting and I counted up to 80+ white lights or objects continue the flight path SSW to NNE. They kept a realitively equal distance apart, but several where grouped by twos and took on a closer wing man type formation. Three changed direct to a more East flight path away from the rest. I observed a point in the night sky that the objects seemed to appear out of a single point of blackness.

October 14, 2020 · 6:19 AM · FORMATION

SW Portland, OR

At 6:19am on 10/14/2020 I walked out of my house and looked at the sky to see if the sunrise had started yet as I was getting ready to have my morning coffee before work, and I observed 6 craft flying north/northwest, flying in unison, each about an inch apart by my view (obviously much farther apart). I heard no sound and all I could see with my naked eye was six white lights. After about 10 seconds the formation broke left (which to me was west, they broke from flying northwest to west generally though still slightly north, and they flew toward the sky instead of flying parallel to the horizon as they were). They appeared to speed up and after about 5 seconds they were gone, out of my sight. They moved faster flying away after the veer than they were generally, but overall they were traveling very fast. About a half hour later I looked outside and saw a contrail of sorts, perhaps a jet chasing the crafts...the contrail went in the same direction as I last ! saw the crafts.

October 14, 2020 · 6:05 AM · LIGHT

Philomath, OR

As bright as the moon, moving west to east passing over the last star in the handle of the big dipper, so maybe 35deg above the horizon. All matched Speed and random distancing however, seemed to be somewhat evenly spaced. Some small grouping (3) per group. Appeared out of west, fading up into full brightness from the same spot, running in a fairly straight line to the east, covering aprox 1/3 of the center of the sky. From fade in to fade out, aprox 60sec. Speed would be the same as an cessna 182 @ 1000ft AGL at level flight speed. I have been involved with Aviation since 1969, and this is my first "reporting" of this type of event. I have experienced others in the past, but usually way out to sea and off the standard jetway. Somebody else HAD TO HAVE ALSO got this show. This was way way to obvious.

October 14, 2020 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT

Mt. Angel, OR

The was a string of lights in the sky all one behind the other traveling in the same direction in a single line. About 5 to 7, moving at a medium speed. The were overhead moving west to east. There were as bright as the brightest stars. Very strange.

October 6, 2020 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN

Beavercreek, OR

On October 6, 2020 around 8pm pst, my husband and I saw an unusually bright white, fast moving object very high in the sky. As we were observing, there was what what appeared to be a meteor falling, that looked like a shooting star except is was moving up instead of falling down. This object was “shooting” in the exact direction of where the moving white light had been, which was no longer visible. Then a few seconds later there was an extremely intense, blue white light “explosion” for lack of a better word. It was concentrated right in the area where the two previous events took place and did not light up a large area of the sky. It looked like what I would think of an exploding star would look like here on Earth. We live in a rural area that is very dark and quiet. There were absolutely no sounds that we heard associated with this event. I made note of the constellation Pegasus as reference to where we saw this take place.

October 6, 2020 · 4:30 AM · FLASH

Hubbard, OR

This morning I was sitting in my bedroom watching TV (My room is in front of the house, facing east) and I looked out my window and thought nothing of the flashing light until at least 4 or 5 minutes later noticing the flash which was flashing different colors occasionally, stayed there in the same spot for quite some time. And is actually staying put as i type this. Incredible experience!

October 4, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER

Birkenfeld, OR

September 16, 2020--- On this night, at approximately 2:00 am, I was laying in bed with my 9 year old son in our “apartment" on my best friends 23 acre property. I kept seeing a light flashing outside the window. It looked as if someone was outside checking stuff out and every once in a while I would get a beam of light almost directly on my window. So I started to shine my cell phone flashlight out the window, basically telling whoever it is that I’m aware they are outside. After doing this off and on for about 5-10 minutes, it stopped but seemed awfully bright outside for a foggy september night. So I opened the curtain and this mechanical figure flew down from the corner edge if the roof and turned to expose itself to me. Before it got one to my window, the big chicken that I am, I closed the window. The next day I had asked my friend if there was a light outside that building that I was unaware of, I knew there wasn’t, but I had to be sure. They confirmed there was not. I thought nothing of it. I though it was the neighbors messaging around, so I didn’t think anything of it. About 3 or 4 days go by and by this time Im sleeping in the main house, again I’m a chicken, with my exboyfriend/current boyfriend. I didn’t want anyone to mess with me or my child, so I slept where I’ve always felt safe. Anyways, I’m laying in bed, its probably 1:30 and I see this light outside, almost a flashlight, but it was too high, too bright and moved smoothly. I’d assumed it was a drone. It was checking out my friends property. So I stare at it, suddenly my vision becomes distorted and everything is black. I wake up my boyfriend and he sees nothing, ofcourse. A week goes by and I see this thing everynight and from what I can tell, it does the same thing every night, but I think it has a “watcher" drone or thing. I say this for many reasons, one mainly because whenever I would try to show someone this thing, the light outside shuts of instantly. Either it is telepathic or someone is very close paying attention being a distraction maybe. We put up game cams and al! l 3 cameras stop recording video between the times this thing is here. It doesn’t show anyone shut it off at all. Maybe it has a camera distortion deal. There is so much more detail that I really do not have time to explain. This is the jist of it. Idk if its government or alien. But whatever it is, its very very intelligent. To be completely honest, it hasn’t hurt anyone or anything, it hasn’t stolen anything. Everyone is this house is nothing big enough for any government to want anything to do with or investigate. The property is beautiful, but that’s not a reason to sneak and hide in the middle of the night. I’m scared for my life and my family and for our home. I’m a little tech savvy, but I don’t have the equipment or funding to do any further investigating. This thing has stumped us and our only form of security.

October 3, 2020 · 8:35 PM · OTHER

Walterville, OR

my mom and i were watching tv and my cats were acting weird my one cat kept jumping up in the window looking everywhere.I happened to look out the window and and there was nothing but the moon and sky then all of a sudden there was a light and a glowing ship that looked like a star shape.my mom saw it to and she said thats really weird we were looking east out my moms bedroom window it glowed with a haze of orange then went to a white color. it had lights on the points of the star shape that were blue,green and red, then a lil ship went up to it and the bigger ship started to kick on some kind of engines cause there was fire coming out of the big ship. the lil ship went up into the bigger ship and then the big ship engines blew out lots of fire and took off into the sky and was gone.

October 1, 2020 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE

Troy, OR

Oct.1 Full moon – camping, 10:pm looked up and saw huge triangle shaped craft right overhead , saw a small white triangle craft out in front of the big craft, a second large triangle craft, same size and look was off to the right, the small craft out front was solid white, both big craft had five or six yellow lights on both sides, two big red light on each corner in the back flashing opposite of each other, about the size of a Stealth Bomber, all three crafts were low just over the hilltops and SILENT … absolutely no sound what so ever ! observed them with my binoculars until out of site…..

October 1, 2020 · 10:00 AM · TRIANGLE

Troy, OR

Oct. 1 – 2020 - 10:PM ( 22:00 ) - TROY OREGON I was Camping and Steelhead fishing on the Grand Ronde River with a fellow Viet Nam Vet and another friend, on the Washington side of the state line. It was a clear night with no clouds. I had my binoculars out and was looking at the full moon and enjoying the still night…. I laid my binoculars on the hood of my truck and walked about five steps over to my friend (a non-believer) when I looked up and strait over head was large triangle shaped craft about the size of a Stealth Bomber? I said out loud “What the hell is THAT “. There was a small white triangle shaped craft about 500 yards in front of the big craft. The three crafts were lower than the surrounding hills, I would guess 1000 ft above the ground or they were contour flying, very close? The craft was Heading North East, smooth with no Effort and NO SOUND? That’s what made it strange, as big and close as it was, no sound, made the hair on the back of your neck stand up! Looking to the right about a quarter mile away ! was a second triangle shaped craft just like the one overhead. Flying in formation with the first one. No small white craft in front of it. The first thing I noticed of the craft overhead was the nose was a grey color, the under side looked dark or black? I turned a few feet away to get my binoculars and got a close look!! The big triangle overhead had about five or six yellow lights on each side from front to back, two large red lights on each corner in the back, flashing opposite of each other. A couple of small red light, not flashing, between the two big red lights. Through my binoculars I could see the clean metal ring of the light fixture itself! Using the binoculars it was so close, it felt as though I could have reached out and touched it. I looked over to the right to see the other big triangle craft exactly like the first one… Looking back to the one that passed overhead now heading away from me I could not see the small white craft as good, although it looked closer to the nose of the big craft now, could have been because it was moving away from me….ABSOLUTLY NO SOUND! My friend (a non-believer) look! ed astounded and agreed there was NO SOUND?? I observed the three crafts with my binoculars until they faded into the distance. I watched them for over a minute! I keep kicking myself for not grabbing my phone are camera first??? I live near a small airport and see different kinds of planes day and night. I have NEVER seen any craft like these? BIG – CLOSE – Triangle shaped - SILENT!!! Have had a hard time sleeping, when I close my eyes, I keep seeing these Crafts??

September 21, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT

Depoe Bay, OR

The objects flew along the coastline north to south. From our vantage point on the cliff I’d estimate their path approximately 45 to 50 degrees above the horizon. They appeared as bright points of light, brighter than any star in the sky at their closest proximity to our position. They came as dim points of light from the north, grew amazingly bright on near approach, and dimmed fairly quickly after passing, maintaining a steady high altitude throughout...they dimmed to nothingness at altitude, not disappearing behind tree line nor mountaintop...therefore I’m thinking they surely must have been traversing at least in the upper atmosphere, perhaps at near-earth satellite altitude. The event took place in 20 seconds, no more than 30. Their speed? Impressive, is all I can say. My first thought was that what we witnessed was a SpaceX satellite array. But after some Googling I’m not sure: Satellite arrays appear to travel in single file...it appears I’m going to need a little more research! My wife and I are middle-aged professionals; sober star-gazers...but certainly not trained observers of aerial phenomena. I have tried to portray the gist of what we observed as clearly and succinctly as possible. I hope it is useful. We will check back with this website in the near future to see if perhaps others had a similar sighting. This was my first potential UFO sighting and first visit to site...thanks for the hard work and for being here!

September 21, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT

Depoe Bay, OR

September 18, 2020 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT

Mill City, OR

Witness 1- Myself: I've always thought that we're not alone- but until this night, I've never actually FELT like there was something else out there. Witness 2- A family Friend: She has always thought I was "silly" for thinking we were not alone. She is even more speechless about what we saw. ** Without knowing what I had seen, my neighbor told me they saw "blue lights in the sky and stars that were moving" a few weeks back (which would've been on September 07, 2020- In Mill City OR- Same location as my sighting) Neighbors-1 household Believer type-Mother 5 household members are non-believers. (Non believer) Daughter ran frantically inside to her mother (believer type) and reported what she was seeing outside.

September 18, 2020 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT

Baker City, OR

After about 10 seconds of observation, the light slightly increased in brightness as it snapped West for a 5 seconds followed by requisition of original course, emitted a blueish beam of light tha angled down toward the West then the light immediately disappeared. Nothing more.

September 16, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT

Coos Bay, OR

I stepped out on to the deck at 5:30 AM looking north. I immediately noticed a light moving ENE. My first thought was a satellite. As I watched it for about 10 seconds, I noticed a dimmer light just ahead also moving in the same direction. They moved into the haze from the wildfires to the east and disappeared. I was just about to turn around and go back inside when I saw to the west 4 more lights moving in the same direction. They were fairly close together, though not in a straight line. They were visible long enough for me to retrieve my binoculars from the bookshelf just inside the house, and train it on one of the objects. It was bright white with no colors showing. I watched them for about 45 seconds until they faded away.