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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
October 31, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Albany, OR
3 very bright orange lights were seen from south Albany flying in from the West very close together not making any noise by the time I got my camera out there were 5 they started flashing at each other and three of them started flying in a triangle formation two of them started flashing and very quickly disappeared while the other three headed south and then while claiming higher in the sky tell they were unable to be seen.
October 29, 2019 · 3:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Amity, OR
As I was getting ready for work I went outside to have a cigarette around 3:15am. I looked up at the sky like I normally do this time to see 3 white triangles flying through the sky. They were traveling North to South and had no lights or sound. At first I thought they were geese, but again there was no sound and there were only 3 objects. I was only able to watch them for 5-7 seconds before they flew out of sights behind some trees. I don't know what I saw, what flies in the sky at night with no sounds or lights and is white in color and is rectangular shaped??
October 28, 2019 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
Bright red light NNW sky approximately 70 degrees above the horizon. With the naked eye it appeared as a single stationary red light, appeared about the size of a light on a low flying aircraft we see in the area, assumed to be the light from an aircraft, possibly a helicopter but it appeared much to high and there was no movement. Decided to try and get a photo, zoomed the camera lens and found it to be three lights in a triangle, two red lights one green. These were self illuminated. Watched for several minutes using the stationary silhouette of a tall fir tree to discern movement, the light appeared stationary. Went in the house to download the photo and then checked 15 minutes later and it was gone. Nothing on the local news, sent photo to local news station weather department, as of 24 hours later no response from them. This was an unusual sighting for me I'm not far from PDX and see a lot of aircraft in the area, never have seen anything like this and ! wouldn't have known it was multiple lights without the camera zoom.
October 28, 2019 · 7:57 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
Camping out, clear night. Directly overhead, a "V" shape formation of 7 it 9 lights, with a leading light and two legs, one 'leg' longer than than the either, seemed to materialized out of space and as soon as it was 'solid', zoomed off to the north instantly with no acceleration. Sighting lasted 2 seconds. It was absolutely silent, which leads me to think that it was either not solid in the common sense it was above the atmosphere, as I think I should have heard a Sonic boom. The lights has a slight yellow tinge compared to the stars visible, and had the same magnitude of a very bright star.
October 28, 2019 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER
Wemme, OR
Was sitting on Mt. Hood with my buddy when we saw this shining bright object in the sky. It was bullet-shaped, long but not wide, and it looked high up but I couldn’t tell for sure. I thought it was a plane at first, but it didn’t seem to have any wings and there was no jet trail behind it. It curved through the sky smoothly, not pushed by the wind but going pretty fast, until it shrunk into a single spherical dot shining through the blue at us. Finally it was out of sight.
October 27, 2019 · 5:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
Was camping. Looking at the stars directly overhead, I was thinking how people could easily hallucinate or think they saw a ufo becasue of tricks the stars play on my eyes from city lights. Several minutes later, a shape materialized, it looked like lights floating to the surface of a body of black translucent liquid. It took about a half second to come to full brightness, and was a V shape light formation with a leading light at the apex, 4 lights down one leg and 3 down the other. The lights were of the magnitude of a very bright star but a little yellower. As soon as it came to full brightness, it zoomed off to the north with absolutely no acceleration-instantly coming to full speed. It was about the size of two full moons in length, one in width, and I only saw it travel an arc-second or two before view was obscured. Absolutely no sound, makes me think it was either insubstantial in mass or above the atmosphere. Cell phone not affected, listening to podc! ast as it happened, texted immediately after.Very clear night, no clouds, moon not in sky, city lights obscure all but top mag stars. Not a plane, firework, satellite, meteorite, star, planet, bird(s), laser toy, or anything else I can think of to explain.
October 26, 2019 · 2:33 PM · OVAL
Corvallis, OR
As I sat down at the swing to rest my foot, I decided to swing back and looked up into the sky, I saw above a very tall tree way up in the sky, a bring silver object that was like a wheel paddle oval shaped attached to a tall darker silver rectangular shape upright, these were attached together, the paddle style wheel was circling slow, it was bright silver, there were no planes or any other objects above the tree, I did the same swing motion and as I was watching the object, it flew straight up and disappeared. There was no sound in the sky, except for a family next to the playground that were busy carving pumpkins and grilling food. My children were playing on the slide and I ran to look behind the tall tree to make sure, it was not there.
October 23, 2019 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Salem, OR
Looked to be one craft that was bluish white and leaving a light trail as it moved back and forth erratically then up and down. Didn’t seem to have a pattern to its movements but kept in the general same area and bobbed all over. Lasted quite a while and was still there when I went to the bedroom. Got up an hour later and it was gone.
October 21, 2019 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Keizer, OR
Walked outside land saw a orangish light moving roughly north to south. Thought it was a plane initially but after observing it for 30 seconds I noticed there were no blinking lights like every other plane in the sky tonight. Even as it traversed the sky no other blinking or colored lights were seen. Just a steady orange glow that seemed to be traveling at a speed similar to what a plane would be moving. My wife also observed the craft. I walked in the house and came out with my phone. Unfortunately I wasn’t recording like I thought I was. When I hit stop is when I started recording. All you can hear is my wife say “it disappeared”. Which it literally did right in front of us. I thought for a second it went behind a cloud but it was actually perfectly clear out and you could see all the stars.
October 20, 2019 · 8:10 AM · OTHER
Portland, OR
Thin spherical type blue light or beam with sharp edges slowly panning from left to right consistently. At first thought was it was a spotlight in the area maybe? But we are in an area that that doesn’t have nor have I seen any of those. Very odd and seemed to be more visible when the clouds would be in front of it.
October 17, 2019 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Lafayette, OR
Three disk like objects were seen. Each one had 4 small lights on the front. They moved in formation to the Northeast. One slowly disappeared (almost faded away). Then the other two stopped moving. Then another one disappeared. The third one kind of stayed there for about 30 seconds, then one reappeared. Finally the two faded into the clouds. I didn't see anything else after that.
October 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
I was walking home from work and as I turned on to my street- facing south- I looked in the sky and saw three orbs hovering in an upside down triangular formation. They didn't look too big which leads me to believe they were farther away, but they were still pretty bright which was peculiar. I snapped a couple of pictures before I called my friend to come take a look, and by the time they came down, the orb on the top left had moved towards the east and faded. Then as we were discussing the disappearance, the orb at the bottom of the triangle suddenly disappeared. A neighbor walking down the street walked by and saw the two lights before the second one disappeared.
October 7, 2019 · 12:10 AM · RECTANGLE
Astoria, OR
We have no idea what this object is..Mostly everynight This strange looking object with red and green and blue And white blinking lights seems to be Hovering over around our House,tonight there was one above the other...never saw That before..Can a drone stay up for hours?
October 4, 2019 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Trail, OR
1 ball of light flew threw the sky then was gone
October 1, 2019 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING
Medford, OR
I saw a blue glowing object as I was photographing the moon in zoom mode on my Iphone camera. The object appeared as different shapes at different times. I took 9 photos of it. Initially, it appeared to have a cloudy shape - appearing to look like a sea turtle with a tail. Then, when the cloudiness disappeared, it looked similar to a bat-shape with a large body. In the next photo it appears "U" shaped. In the next photo it looks like a rocket. Next it looks like a small fish shape. Then as an airplane comes in for a landing at our airport, it looks T-shaped and as it suddenly reduces elevation, it looks like a flying saucer. In the final photo as it came way down in elevation, it stopped seemingly nearby and it appears as a frog with only back legs. In every photo it is the same glowing blue color.
October 1, 2019 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Florence, OR
Stepped outside to look at stars as I'm a amuture astronomer. Unblinking soft orange light slowly passed overhead about 100 feet over my roofline. Went north to south till out of sight. No noise. Not plane or satellite.
September 21, 2019 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Bend, OR
My husband and I were in the hot tub and he noticed a bright white light moving up in a diagonal direction in the sky north of us. We watched it carefully because it wasn't flashing like a plane would. It was perfectly white and was moving in a steady pattern. We were saying, "What is that? It's not a plane because it's not flashing, it's not a satellite because it's too bright, it's not a meteor because it's moving up in the sky... then it dimmed and completely disappeared into a perfectly cloudless, black sky. We watched the sky in that area for some time and it didn't reappear at all. I got online to see if others have seen the same thing... it sounds like some of the things others have indeed seen lately.
September 14, 2019 · 10:59 AM · LIGHT
Portland (southeast of), OR
Over 100 to 200 lights spotted traveling south over Southeast Portland at 10:59 p.m. up 2 past 11:30 p.m. objects seem to be a different heights traveling in groups of 2 to 10 over a 2-mile radius. Some seem to be dropping from higher levels down. Some even appeared to be hovering still.
September 14, 2019 · 10:59 AM · LIGHT
Portland (southeast of), OR
Over a hundred lights seen traveling South/Portland and burst of 2 to 10 spread out over a 2-mile radius. Multiple unidentified flying objects at different intervals of heights.
September 11, 2019 · 10:13 PM · TRIANGLE
Milton-Freewater, OR
Girlfriend was outside and yelled for me to come look I seen a large triangular flying object at first Dark no lights then red lights started flashing Then noticed another coming red lights flashing It was not far off ground silent no noise slowly Moving then it appeared to hover and the one following Was catching up these seem to be coming from east Moving northeast so quietly... I captured video On my phone best i can made several short videos The length of 1st one looked like 3 lengths of a 747 The 2nd maybe 2 lengths of a 747 hard to tell depth And perception of them being so dark. We watched Until they were not to be seen heading toward tri cities wa Ive videos and a witness we are shocked be what We seen flying so low and quiet is amazing to have Got to see and capture the moments.
August 31, 2019 · 12:20 PM · EGG
Lake Oswego, OR
I witnessed a large group (15-20) - quick approximate) of grayish egg shaped objects moving very fast at what appears to be high altitude. No discernible sounds was heard but that may not be surprising given its high altitude. Many change position as they moved. You can see this in the video.
August 31, 2019 · 9:20 AM · OTHER
Medford, OR
I was letting my dogs out in my backyard when I looked up and saw two things in the sky. One looked blue and another look like a star. I thought they were stars, but I then saw them move. The blue one moved a little, then the star one moved to the other side of the blue one. The star one moved farther and farther away from the blue one toward the sun. They moved in all directions, so I knew it couldn’t have been a plane. I thought I also saw a red dog in the sky as well, which the star UFO looked like it went to it. They were pretty high up in the sky. There were two planes that passed in between them, so they must have not been low enough for them to see. I tried to show my wife, but she couldn’t see them. They were not right over Medford, but closer to Mt. McLoughlin/Crater Lake National Park area, maybe farther, but in that direction. They probably looked like stars because the sun was out.
August 31, 2019 · 3:09 AM · TRIANGLE
Beaverton, OR
I was walking my dog on the corner of juniper and 22nd street ona. Quiet morning of August. While passing under a short tree, I noticed a noise. Like a fan. Soon I noticed there was a triangular hover craft type of drone flying about 500 feet in the air. I ran after it but it soon disappeared and headed SW. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be sincere and sober-minded, PD
August 30, 2019 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Point, OR
Around 9:30 p.m., my wife had stepped out for some fresh air, she came back in a couple minutes later and said she saw what she thought was a small shooting star or a beam of light. She went back outside and a few minutes later I followed. She says there is a blinking light up there. I look directly overhead and see between the constellations Lyra and Cygnus (closer to Lyra) what appears to be about a 3.5 magnitude star completely blinking on and off. The light was blueish-white in color with possible hints of orange and thru binoculars is just a pinpoint of light not moving in relation to the numerous background stars and is clearly blinking 'on and off'. After about 10-15 minutes of watching, it faded out but never appeared to move at least not any perceivable amount. Never saw any more beams of light or other anomalies.