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Sightings
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
September 9, 2020 · 7:18 PM · OTHER
Tigard, OR
This was captured while filming the wildfire smoke,that was rolling in the night sky, from my home in Oregon.
September 7, 2020 · 5:00 AM · DISK
West Linn, OR
My husband and I witness and very colorful object in the South/Southeast sky hovering for over an hour. It had every light you could imagine. It was disc/sand dollar shaped on a 60' angle. It was covered in lights - every color imaginable and hovered for over an hour in one spot. It appeared to seperate into 2 distinct objects for a time then came back together. It eventually moved due south and disappeared from view.
September 6, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Wife went outside with the dogs and when she came back in she said she’d been watching a UFO outside and for me to come out and take a look with her. I thought she must’ve been mistaking a planet or even a chain of Starlink Satellites, but what we saw I can’t explain. It was a star that split into two and then three different stars that then began moving at random. There is nothing that I know of that can or will exhibit that type of behavior. No drone, helicopter, airplane, weather balloon, planet, Star, the ISS, or any satellite can perform what we saw. And it’s come back several nights in a row and we’ve had a total of 8 people now including the 2 of us that have eyewitnesses this phenomena. There’s too much smoke from the filters fires to see anything presently, but as soon as the air clears we will continue to go out at night and see if it/they return. I have video but my hands aren’t steady so it’s hard to see determine how much the light moves c! ompared to how still I’m able to hold the camera. I’m going to use a tripod next time
September 2, 2020 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Otis, OR
Was looking upward toward the southeast at what I believed to be insects swarming in the atmosphere. They really caught my eye in the sunlight so I stepped back to let the edge of the roof block the sun while I observed. The insects appeared to be randomly flying around and then collecting into a group and moving eastward. They seemed to ‘poof’ out in a ball with a small strand of insects linking ball after ball. I remarked at the behavior to my spouse. He has vision issues so I normally take photos of low contrast things for him to get a better view. After 5 shots increasing the zoom, I showed the photos and was surprised to see the oblong feature. It was not visible to the naked eye. It was large enough that my spouse could have seen that. I did note a contrail to the west as I looked around the sky, unusual for this area.
September 1, 2020 · 1:07 AM · TEARDROP
McMinnville, OR
So me and my friend were walking home from the store on a country road. (One side of the road was forest and the other side was a wheat field.) As we were walking talking about the fact that it was strangely bright out I see out of the corner of my eye something that looked like a shooting star. When I actually looked at it I realized that it was not a shooting star I yelled out to my friend "what is that" and it was gone. My friend was a little behind me and he says that he saw a bright light through the trees. The object kinda looked like a comet or I guess a shooting star but the thing that threw me off is that the light was blueish and it stayed visible longer then a shooting star. Also I checked live UFO maps and in all the town's near McMinnville there were sightings a lot like mine in the past week. That's really it that I can think of right now if you wanna talk about this email me
August 29, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Lincoln City, OR
We were watching the fireworks display put on by the casino here when I noticed a small green light above and to the right of the fireworks. It was just sitting there stationary all during the display. When they were over about 10:20 PM, I kept watching it and it turned red and slowly began to move around, first left and then right and slowly started to move right (Northerly) when all of a sudden it zipped away super fast and kinda went by us, but high up in the air and out of sight. I have a feeling it might have been a drone, as I have not been around them, but I didn't think they went up that high. Anyway, I thought I would report it and see if anyone else saw it and if you could confirm that it was a drone. It was very weird. Thank you.
August 26, 2020 · 10:35 AM · TEARDROP
Forest Grove, OR
We were working on an excavation and noticed a strange light in the clear blue sky West of us. The object did not move and was stationary in the sky for approximately 40-45min. and then just vanished. A co worker showed up just after the object disappeared from a job site 20 miles away and asked if we had seen it. So it was apparently visible to many.
August 25, 2020 · 10:45 AM · CIRCLE
McMinnville, OR
Bright circular light shot straight down to the horizon out of vision. Light was either white or bright blue and made no sound.
August 24, 2020 · 10:55 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Point, OR
The object was traveling too fast for known aircraft, yet too slowly for a meteorite. It had a bluish hue around the object. I fully expected the object to crash land past the ridge near my residence. I did not hear any sound emitting from the object, nor did I hear the sound of an impact.
August 24, 2020 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE
Lincoln City, OR
One by one the objects came and went right above us. Some going in diagonal directions. There would be a few that would flash a brighter light then go back to its normal brightness and fly along in the sky. Some would travel fast and some slower than others. Every minutes or so another would come. It lasted about 15 minutes. There was this one particular one, it was bright and a shape of a circle, when it came closer to us it flashed its lights real bright then left. It was moving in a wavy motion as well. Zig zag like. I do have video proof of this object I am talking about.
August 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Beaverton, OR
From West to North the white circles traveled one at a time over my house .There were 5 .Then 2 of them werefollowing each other it looked like they were traveli g the same speed perfect distance apart steadily then they started to travel faster north. I wT hed then till Icouldbt see them anymore. They were not llanes the round circles did not flash and stayed bright contiously.
August 24, 2020 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Newberg, OR
I was watching an Airliner fly over my house when I saw what looked like a satellite in the sky(small dot like a star.) It was moving twice as fast as a satellite and faster than regular aircraft in comparison to the airliner. When the dot came close to the airliner it turned on a spotlight that swept from downward(earth) to towards the airliner, which it radiated in the sparse clouds and turbed off. I watched it pass over the roof and eventually the "Satellite" could no longer be seen. It traveled the same consistant speed across the sky.
August 23, 2020 · 10:40 PM · CHANGING
Pacific City, OR
The object flew in from the North East and hovered over the ocean shore for 30 mins+ changing direction and flipping/ tossing. There was a large flash of light, and the craft disappeared.
August 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Hood River, OR
We were sitting outside talking at our camp site at Lost Lake campground and resort. It was dark and there was a fire ban at the time so it was darker than usual. All of the sudden, a red and orange circular light appeared in the sky between two large trees. It moved towards us, almost in an arch pattern, with a strong light tail and then disappeared. It wasn’t too close, more off in the distance, but clearly visible. It almost looked like a firework or flare but there wasn’t any sound that normally comes along with those. Plus, with the fire ban in place and heavily enforced rules at Lost Lake, there is a very small chance anyone was lighting anything on fire. It is also covid rules so the campground was only at about half capacity. The whole thing lasted 15 seconds or less. Myself and one other person were completely sober and the other two had a little to drink. We all saw it.
August 20, 2020 · 2:03 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I was standing outside smoking a cigarette. When I saw this light in the sky. It would hover then split in two connected by a lightning strike. I yelled, and for some reason everyone was asleep and wouldn’t wake up. I grabbed my phone and snapped these pictures. Afterward I was bitten by something big. I went to the hospital the next day. They said possible hobo, still a strange time to have that happen.
August 19, 2020 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Eugene, OR
At around 9:10 PM while out on a walk I witnessed a silent, orange colored orb-shaped UFO fly over Amazon Park. I was out taking a walk like I usually do in the evenings in the area of south university neighborhood in Eugene a few blocks away from the University of Oregon when I just happened to look up to see what I thought was maybe an airplane or satellite flying southwestward. What made me realize that this craft was not either an airplane or satellite was when the orange-colored, star-shaped orb stopped in mid-air, started flying southward, then stopped again, only to then start to move down towards the ground. The UFO seemed to first start heading in my direction, being eastward, but then suddenly stopped and began heading southwestward. When it started moving towards the ground I knew for certain that this was a UFO. The entire incident lasted about 15-30 seconds. The road I was walking down was a steep hill, which gave me somewhat of a range to see around the area which would be Amazon Park. This orange-colored orb-shaped UFO seemed to be flying almost directly above the area of Amazon Park. The aircraft looked like a very orange star. If the aircraft hadn’t been moving I would most certainly have mistaken it for a star in the evening sky and kept walking. This aircraft also did not make any noise. If this had been a helicopter or airplane I would have heard it. And man-made aircraft cannot stop mid-air and suddenly change directions. This was something completely out of this world (maybe even literally).
August 18, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Dallas, OR
1 red/yellow flashing light surrounding ORB in the sky. Once We noticed it we focused in more trying to videotape and noticed what seemed to be multiple crafts blinking in different color sequences. Blue/Red x2 and the Yellow/red one looked to be the biggest one and the others were blinking to the large one. The large one spits out another small orb at high speed and it disappeared. Came inside to find somewhere to report to see if anyone else is seeing this. It is not 23:21 and te Large Red/Yellow is still there pulsating.
August 18, 2020 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
3 balls of light couple minutes in between North heading south bright balls no sound no blinking lights when one was to far to see another one came behind it heading the same way there where 3 lasted 20 minutes
August 16, 2020 · 4:00 AM · CHANGING
Newport, OR
My friend and I were walking through the campground at Beverly Beach State Park when I looked up through the leafy canopy to see a circular orange shape that was not a star or planet. It seemed to bounce and then divide while changing color to a grayish blue and back to orange. It resembled descriptions of orb encounters. There may have been more orbs, but it was difficult to say for certain because of the trees. We watched for at least 15 minutes. We have both seen strange occurrences like this in the past.
August 15, 2020 · 12:15 PM · FLASH
Succor Creek State Park, OR
A group of us were camping at succor creek state park in eastern Oregon. We stayed up late to get some Milky Way photographers because it was a dark moonless night. The Milky Way was brilliant! After shooting a few photos I saw a flash in the night sky to the south. It was about 80 degrees altitude. I usually pay attention to anything unusual in the sky. Typically, most lot these are caused by ‘iridium flashes ‘ of satellites, however, to my surprise when the flash blinked again a few seconds later, it hasn’t moved from the position of the initial flash. I alerted a friend to pay attention. We continued to watch this supposed object to flash on a very irregular intermittent pattern. Interval being anywhere between 5 seconds to maybe 1 or 2 seconds. I could tell this object had to be in space or very high in the atmosphere. After realizing absolutely that this object was not moving And was completely stationary in the night sky I yelled to wa! ke up my wife who was sleeping in the tent. The Moment I did so, the flashing ceases completely. I have seen a similar flash at horseshoe bend, Idaho that acted the same way and also ceased the moment inwent to alert more witness. Coincidence? Maybe! Anyhow, , I am a very avid outdoorsman and accustomed to the night sky and A good level of astronomical knowledge. After spending 40 years of being under the night sky I have become familiar with what is normal and what is unusual. I practice healthy degree of skepticism to rule out any and all things conventional before jumping to conclusions. This however was definitely unusual. Therefore, I felt it was necessary to write this report. It was not an iridium flash or a drone. Never saw any craft arrive or leave the scene of the event. To me, this was certainly unidentified...
August 13, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Tillamook, OR
Yellowish/white, similar to color of a bright star, planet or satelite. However, it moved erratically but side to side or up and down almost like on a Joy ride. This lasted for at least 60 minutes. After which then the light started to dim then get bright then dim and get bright periodically until we finally just went to bed. My two 13 year olds confirmed they saw what I was seeing, that I wasn't crazy. This is my first siting of SOMETHING, but what it was is unknown.
August 13, 2020 · 3:57 AM · FORMATION
Colton, OR
Line formation, 4th one in was a triangle shape. Had 15-16 white lights going from the north to the east then slowly disappeared. My husband, 2 of our children and I were out to see the perseid meteor shower.
August 12, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Keizer, OR
My fiances grandmother came inside from smoking and said she saw a ufo outside somewhat reluctantly and wanted someone to come out and look. At firsr glance it looked like the brighted star in the sky. But when you watched it, it moved around so unnatural. Almost like a buttefly in flight. It would move rapidly up and down and jump short distances. while it appeared bright white you could also see red sometimes, which me and her would confuse with blue and green, it was almost a blinding white but other colors all at the same time. I had my fiance come out and he was absolutely stunned as well. Im not one to just say I saw something, I dont make shit up. We all saw this, its still out there and I got it on video
August 10, 2020 · 1:03 AM · CHEVRON
Eugene, OR
At about 1:03 a.m., in the early morning hours of August 10, 2020, I saw something out of the corner of my eye coming over the distant trees to the south. It was faint but very distinctive. The sky was completely clear and dark but this object resembled something as it might be traveling through clouds because it was very hazy and muted. Yet, I was able to make it out clearly. It was shaped like a very wide V but the point was a bit more curvilinear-kind of like a boomerang. Each side of the V was made up of about three rows of thin, parallel striations of light that crossed the V lines. Think of train tracks, or a flock of geese flying in formation. That is what it reminded me of, with the outstretched wings representing the lights. Only you would have about three rows of geese side-by-side. The color of the lights was a golden yellow to orange. This object was about 5 times the size of an airplane that you would see way up in the sky, where sound from the plane can no longer be heard—from where I sat it appeared as about a ½” to ¾” object. There was no sound whatsoever--it was completely silent. I saw the UFO come into view as it passed over the trees to the south of me. It moved faster than a plane that passes overhead, but it didn’t streak across the sky either. It moved at a consistent rate in a completely straight line from the south to north, and my gaze followed it until it passed over rooftops and trees in the distance. I would say I watched it for about 10-15 seconds. I came inside and drew a picture of it, then took a photo of the drawing, altering it a bit to make it look similar to what I saw if anyone is interested in seeing it. It is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen and I can’t get it out of my mind.