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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
July 13, 2018 · 12:30 AM · OTHER
Mulino, OR
Two odd lights in the sky to the south caught my eye as i walked outside to let dogs out. I called my husband out and we watched as the higher one started moving towards us. The next one started moving after, they moved very slowly almost no sound, as they got closer and moved directly overhead, the light configuration and shape was very unusual. Both has lots of lights, different colors, in a pattern on what looked to be the main body and had 2 smaller sections below and off to each side that had lights moving along the length of the sections. They were extremely low still almost no sound, and were large, C-130-sized, or larger, it appeared to us. They moved slowly overhead to the north and over our forest, we lost sight of them over our tree lines quickly because they were so low. Saw 2 similar lighted craft hovering in the sky afterwards right after those 2. Cell phone video photos would not work on any phone during the event, worked fine prior and after.
July 11, 2018 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Bend, OR
At least 2 airliners and the helicopter had passed by at different altitudes and times which gave me the perspective of great distant. I also went and got my roommate and she brought her binoculars out and saw it too. Since that day...I went outside at the same time Thursday, Friday and tonight to see if maybe this was a star. It was not! No object was in sight since then. I wish I could have taken a picture. My phone camera could not pic up the object.
July 11, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Culver/Redmond (between), OR
We traveled south about 30 miles and by 9pm it was directly above us. The local news agency, ktvz, told me that they saw it in one of their weather cams but had no idea what it was. A few other people reported it to ktvz as well.
July 11, 2018 · 10:45 AM · CHANGING
Pendleton, OR
My newspaper was contacted via Facebook that people were seeing a white object hovering over the town for the last hour. My editors told me about it when I came in to work about an hour later (so other witnesses had been watching the one object for two hours before I headed to their location). Upon arriving at the scene I began talking to the witnesses and they pointed out the object to me. I began taking photos of the object with my camera equipped with a 300mm lens (the object was so high up it looks like a white semi-translucent dot) when we noticed another similar object appear. The two objects appeared to merge before moving apart from each other and eventually the second object either disappeared, or we lost track of it. A few minutes later we saw another, lower object. I began taking photos of that object as well. I quickly looked at the images I had taken and my first thought was it was a plastic bag flying through the air. The object was again a white, semi-translucent object that seemed to be changing its shape. But as myself and multiple other witnesses watched, we saw this object traverse a distance of around 10 miles in the span of a minute’s time. While watching I had called another friend of mine who happened to be working in the area that the object took off in. He was literally right under the object when we were talking. He found it with binoculars and watch as the object climbed up to about 10,000 feet in the air before vanished before our eyes. Around this time, the original object vanished, too. ( We spoke with the source of the report. He stated that he had managed to photograph the object, but that he could not share the photo because his employer owned the photo. Apparently, the newspaper the photographer works for does not want to publish an article about the event. PD))
July 9, 2018 · 12:04 AM · SPHERE
Madras (?), OR
We live in Vancouver, Washington, and there is a very large, orange, round ball in the the sky that looks like it is maybe over Madras, or between Madras and Troutdale, Oregon. This is VERY large, if you consider how far away we are, because it's fairly large from where we are seeing it. It has been in the same exact spot for at least 20 minutes now, and has not moved at all. We know it's not a star, as it is a totally different color than ANY of the other stars, and is much lower on the horizon than any of the stars. It's just hanging in the sky. Mars. PD
July 8, 2018 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Aloha, OR
Around 3:30am a friend of mine and I were grabbing a bag from her car, and turned back towards our home. We noticed what we thought was an oddly bright star, then thought it might be a plane, then realized it was flickering like fire and sort of, hazy and floating. 2 neighbors' dogs were barking at sky in its direction. Filmed on cell phone and called a roommate out to see, could be seen by roommate and cellphone also. It gave off a sort of irridescent light, almost colorful occasionally. It drifted closer and closer to homes, dipped to treeline, then moved further back and got really bright and winked out.
July 5, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Seaside, OR
Seaside Oregon July 5 2018, just before sunset I was at the Holiday Inn on the balcony taking pictures, it was a very photogenic day. I noticed the sun was getting low in the sky and started getting my camera ready for a sunset. As I looked through my camera, I saw a strange cloud low in the sky. I had a mid-range zoom on the camera and zoomed in to look at the cloud. I couldn’t believe my eyes! In this cloud was a craft, clearly. I took 2 photos of it and my settings were not getting the picture, see photo 1187. Next to me on a table was my 300mm zoom. I made the decision to go for the swap. As I took the lens off, while keeping my eye on the cloud, the craft move out and away, up and right slightly. Its movement was direct and smooth, it quietly and gracefully moved faster as it went, as it was getting smaller, due to moving away, suddenly it appeared to loop straight back on itself, so for a moment I thought is was coming back and now had a very strange bright light on it. Then I realized it had opened a portal- black hole and it was leaving. The size of the portal was not much bigger than the craft. This all took only seconds. I reached for the 300mm lens, snapped it on and started shooting. The first pics are of the UFO shaped cloud left by the craft and the black hole. The black hole only shows up as a small strange cloud, although it was black in reality. I was just amazed and disappointed in the photos and accidently deleted the second shot I took before changing lenses. Since then, I have poured over the photos and now realize, I really have something! I may be the first and or only one to see this and photograph it. Some of the photos are very high quality. Nikon DX 5300 camera. The UFO shaped cloud left by the craft dissipated in about 40 seconds and that is shown in the photo sequence. I continued to shoot until it was gone. On 11-14-18, I was looking at the time of the photos. The time is not correct but it shows the rate I was shooting. The photos numbered 1190, 1191 have a 4 minute 20 second gap. I am positive I never stopped taking pictures for more than 20 seconds or so. Then it occurred to me that the strange clouds that appeared next (photo 1191) are part of the black hole and are measurable ( the distance stays the same from the gate to the clouds), consistent (there seems to be and energy making a twist) that stays and then go away at the closing of the gate. 1. I have photos of a black hole, from a known fixed position with possible measurable data, which could locate the position of the gate. The photos also show an effect from the gate starting with photo 1191, that affect seems to cause me too loose over 4 minutes. The distance between the gate and weird cloud remains exactly the same distance until it closes. It is my opinion that the ship was waiting for the gate. Otherwise why would they risk this exposure? 2. What I witnessed in the gate is fairly interesting. The light was like no other light I have seen, it is hard to describe. But it was long and spikey, like a photo of star light but the spikes were bending and coming back to the gate. Very bright and long spikes! Photo 1188, when zoomed in shows the spikes. The gate seemed straight at first and then after a while it curved left and the craft went left in the tube. How I could see all of this is mysterious in itself. How my camera didn’t get what I was seeing is disappointing. 3. The size of the craft was large, I am only guessing at 300 ft. in diameter. Shiny and glistened in the sun. But of a dark color, not bright and shiny like aluminum. Deep enough for at least 2 decks. Ironically no good photos of the craft. Had I captured all of what I saw, this would have been one of the biggest UFO events in history. 4. I have forensically looked through all photos taken before the event. All those being to the left of the place where I spotted the craft. There are 2 possible UFO’s in photos 1138 and 1144 and I have a sequence of 5 photos showing 2 clouds dropping out of a larger cloud and moving right in the pictures, photos 1147 through 1154 on the right side above the tree and left. Those might be clouds but they are going the right way and the craft was in a cloud so I included them. 5. There must have been a lot of people with cameras that day and many of those people may not know they have photos of this event. 6. Below is the basic shape, it was ugly enough to make me wonder if it was one of ours. Picture 1136 shows three black flying objects, on the far left above the mountain.
June 30, 2018 · 4:14 PM · CIRCLE
Central Point, OR
as my children and I were proceeding on Highway 62 on a clear warm sunny afternoon we noticed a white circular sphere above the airport of Medford, Oregon, as we headed north to Shady Cove, Oregon at the hour of 4:14 PM in the afternoon of June 30, 2018 it remain stationary as it started to shrink in size as it drifted further up .
June 27, 2018 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Corbett, OR
I went outside to take out the trash and as I turned around to go back inside I looked up to the Eastern skyline and noticed 3 intense red lights perfectly lined up in a row at the northern edge of the eastern horizon. The 3 lights were very intense but small like pinpoints. The center light would blink and fade out and as it would fade out the two outer lights would blink in response. As it blinked in this back,and forth pattern, it moved south (from right to left) across the horizon, dropping in elevation slightly. Once it reached the southern edge it got closer to the treeline and the object began to shimmer slightly. It reminded me of the way that it looks when you look off into the distance on a really hot day and see the heat radiating from the ground distorting things and creating a "mirage". When this shimmering happened, you could see the outline of what appeared to be a disc like aircraft. It makes me think that it was using a cloaking device that failed to work properly as it got too close to the trees. We are in a rural area that is dead quiet at night, and this object produced absolutely no sound. In addition, the lights were not spaced close together like that of a plane, but were much farther apart. If you were to hold your hand out at arm's length up to the sky, the distance between the two outer points of light was about the distance between your thumb and pointer finger (4-5"). My husband tried to take a picture of it, but his camera phone would not cooperate and only produced a washed out photo that appeared to be taken in bright sunlight when it was actually almost dark out.
June 17, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Beaverton, OR
leaving work late, I noticed two red lights flying in formation, they hovered and then disappeared, then reappeared, I grabbed my phone camera and they completely vanished. (( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
June 15, 2018 · 8:18 AM · OVAL
Medford, OR
I was driving from Klamath Falls, Oregon, to Medford, Oregon, as I’m driving on the 140, turn left on highway 62 heading south to Highway 5, when something caught my attention in the sky as I was the between the old Costco and Honda dealership, I noticed a metallic oval shape craft moving East just before disappearing in and out of the clouds, then suddenly, he did not reappear. At that moment, I decided to try to take a photo, but it was already too late. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be sincere in his description of the sighting. PD
June 6, 2018 · 7:30 PM
Siletz, OR
This investigator has over 30 years of looking into crop circles, cattle mutilations, ufo sightings and other cases including a search and rescue of a missing woman in Eastern Oregon. But this is my first hand report of a 'Close Encounter of the Third Kind'. This incident comes by a phone call to my spouse on the late evening of 6 June 2018 at about 9:30pm, she received a call from her son. He is a former US Army veteran, former police officer and currently a security guard at a local casino. Watching my spouse's face as she was talking to her son, was a look of concern. She handed me the phone and said, "You need to hear this!" As I listened to her son, he was sincere about what they saw and encountered. The main witness was his girlfriend's daughter who is age 12. Given permission, I spoke with the girl for over 30 minutes asking specific questions. Here is a short summery of that chat; "What time and where did you have this sighting? About 7:30ish today, 5 miles south east of Siletz off a gravel road near Ojalla Road in the woods. "How far was this creature from you? "About 100 feet or so, standing 2 legs, pale grey height 4-5 feet quarter size eyes (dark brown) ribs showing, super skinny, no clothes head round oval, looked like no ears or nose, roundish bump where nose should be!" "How long did you see it?" "10 seconds first time and about 12 seconds the second time..." "What else did you see or hear?" "Birds were real quiet, then when it took off, the birds got noisy again. Prior to the sighting you could hear a 'buzzing noise'. Then sounds got echoing, that lasted about 20 seconds, then sounds in area got normal again. It, the creature moved unnatural, fast and quiet, no sound at all! "Did you see the whole creature? "Yeah, real skinny, ribs showing, thin like almost transparent, no clothes, quick movements..." She went on to tell me the family checked that area for evidence and found only tuffs of black and white fur on the stump. Time I spoke with this yound girl was 9:30pm the evening of 6 June 2018. The following is a full written report from this 12 year girl of her entity encounter; "The night of June 6th, 2018 me and my family decided to go for a drive up in the hills 5 miles out of Siletz, Oregon. We were out to find wood to make ourselves a bow. My mom's boyfriend "J" saw some sticks that were perfect for the bows so we cut them off the tree that they were attached to. Then we went down the road and "J" saw some downed alder that could be used for firewood. I started hearing a faint buzzing noise but put it off as a bug in the car. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw the most bizzare thing ever. It was about 100 to 120 feet away from my moms car. What I saw was a human looking creature that was about 4 to 5 feet tall with pale grey skin. Its skin was so thin it was almost transparent and it was so skinny. I saw it a total of three times and this was the first. I saw it for about 10 seconds. When I made eye contact with it everything went silent. The birds stopped chirping, everything was silent. Then it ran away. I told my mom and "J" and we thought ok we'll keep an eye out. Then I saw it again I knew that something was up there. And as I said previously it ran away, but it looked like it came from behind the stump it was standing by. Then I said, "Hey, I saw it again I think we should go up there and look around." We went up there and looked around and then while I was standing were I saw it the first time and I saw it again! It moved so quick when it noticed that I saw it. And for moving so quick it was incredibly quite. I yelled for "J" "I saw it again!" So we went over to where I saw the 3rd time and when we were talking it got really quite and voices echoed a lot more than the other places in the woods. Near the site of the first sighting we found fur that resembled rabbit fur. It was black with brown tints to it and it stunk really bad! After trying to search for tracks we figured that it was to dry for it to leave tracks so we decided to head home." Investigation summery... I spoke with the primary witness, this 12 year old girl. Very sharp, and sincere about what she saw that evening. I do not think this was a fabricated fantasy, as I could sense the fright and excitement in this young girls voice, which lead me to beleive it did happen. Besides the young 12 year old girl, there were 3 others that experinced the echo and the buzzing sounds. The boyfriend, her mother and her younger sister. Other than the echo and buzzing sounds, to my knowledge none of these individuals suffered any other physical effects. As for the two listed, I have heard about this in the similar case in Salida, Colorado, ufo encounter in which the family had the buzzing sound during their ufo encounter. As for knowing the boyfriend for over 15 years, besides being a combat veteran in Iraq, he is a sound individual and is sincere in what he beleives happen and there is no question in his mind that this girl saw this entity in the woods. All four truly beleive this incident occured and I am sure it will be a memorable moment for this 12 year old girl! We express our gratitude to Mr. Ron Wright, former MUFON Field Investigator for MUFON/Oregon, for submitting this nice report, with illustration. He can be reached at PD
June 6, 2018 · 12:45 AM
Portland, OR
1245 am june 6 from ne 162nd and glisan area of portland, or, usa i noticed a throbbing red light and additional white lights on an apparent aircraft in the sky doing slow, lazy, SILENT circles at approx 60 degrees off horizon 1/2-3 miles east of me over the columbia river between the troutdale airport and pdx. i was fairly well under it as it banked nw and noticed three white lights showing a triangle as as well as what i would say was about 8 lights under the front, but giving me the impression of a well light interior and perhaps 3 levels deep. i figure the size as 2/3 - 1/2 of that of a commercial aircraft as they fly over me daily from this residence for the last 45 years. i know planes flying over me when i see them. it made 3 large circles maybe 3 miles in diameter then slowing went north towards mt st helens. no commercial or private aircraft were seen then for about 70 minutes. unusual in itself.
May 29, 2018 · 8:02 AM · OTHER
Bend, OR
I pointed the object out to my spouse and snapped 4 photos. The object consisted of four black spheres that seemed connected.
May 22, 2018 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Woodburn, OR
I saw a bright green glowing sphere that morphed a bit and traveled low to the ground along the golf course and homes in my neighborhood. I was able to take some video footage of what I saw. I was on my bicycle and I followed the object for about 5 minutes as I lost sight of it for awhile. I rode my bike around the blocks in my neighborhood trying to regain sight of it again and ended up seeing it again hovering over some homes in my neighborhood. It was right above my house at one point and then drifted over some other people's homes before I lost sight of it again. This object had NO sound and NO one was piloting it and it was very bright green and it morphed slightly as it moved. The color was bright green and the lighting was so amazing, unlike anything conventional I have ever seen before. My phone's video camera doesn't do it much justice compared to what I saw in real life, but I am thankful I was able to get at least some partial video footage of what I witnessed, even though there is about 15 more seconds of activity that I observed before I was able to get to my cell phone camera.
May 20, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ashland, OR
gf and I spotted "star," like object in the night sky that began gliding in the night sky seamlessly towards the east, and once the spacecraft passed of the mountains and out of sight... 40-60 Seconds later, a extremelely fiery bright "comet-like" object shot from east to west, streaked completely from east to west until disappearing over the western mountains. The obejct appeared to be wrapping around the horizon as i chased until i lost sight. Also noticably throughout there we no aircrafts during the entire sighting of the spacecraft, and moments after the craft streaked through the air, 2 airplanes with regular airplane jet noises and lights flew over as if the experience never happened… (( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 6, 2018 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Talbot, OR
I was driving south on Interstate 5 and spotted object with 4 lights, outer lights white and inner lights blue, all lights flashing in sequence left to right. Spotted the object to ESE of the freeway at or around mile marker 248. Object hovered at first but then moved in a very slow fashion toward ESE direction. Could continue to see the object, which moved very slowly up until mile marker 236 where it became obscured by lights of the city of Albany. I estimate that the object was about 300 feet in altitude. It appeared to be flying much slower than an airplane and it was too big to be a helicopter. I felt like I was looking at the back of a large wing-shaped craft but as I stated, it moved too slow to be any sort of plane.
April 30, 2018 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Pilot Rock, OR
My Husband and I had went into the backyard and my Husband asked me to look at an object in the sky. I saw a green sphere racing across the sky. Looking south the object was moving right to left approximately 40 degrees from flat plane. Object appeared about a ten percent the size of the full moon. Bright green sphere traveled across the sky with no change in altitude. We both followed it out of sight.
April 25, 2018 · 9:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Prineville, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 11, 2018 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I filmed a time lapse over the course of a few hours, and after zooming into the video I noticed that approximitelly 3 objects appeared out of nowhere in the sky (balls of light). You can see the airplanes in the sky flying by (very quickly) but these objects are moving very slowly, and almost seeming to hover for a little bit. They separate and fly away, still much slower than the airplanes you can see. Here is a link to a clip I posted online: https://streamable.com/yy23q We have viewed the video, which does indeed show three seemingly anomalous lights, moving apparently across the nighttime sky quite slowly. Moreover, they appear to be moving in a different direction from the direction that low-altitude aircraft are moving, so the objects probably are not conventional aircraft. We do not know what they are. PD
April 1, 2018 · 10:15 PM · FLASH
Portland, OR
Went out on my back deck a little after 10:00 pm to let the dogs out. Saw a slow-moving, flashing light that moved from west to east in the north sky. Possibly several objects. It flashed irregularly, like it was twisting in the sunlight. Seemed to be very high altitude. At one point, it changed to a southeast trajectory. Called my wife out to see and we both saw a similar light farther west. Lasted a few minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 31, 2018 · 10:45 PM · FLASH
Eugene, OR
I went inside and grabbed binoculars while my neighbor tried to capture it on his Android phone. When I looked at it through the binoculars I realized it was actually two objects! One following the other and both flashing at irregular intervals. After watching them move slowly across the sky, the brighter one suddenly TURNED SOUTH, continuing to flash every 6-12 seconds for about 30 secs before disappearing. Never seen anything like that happen before. The dimmer object continued E also flashing at odd intervals until it moved past 90deg above us and began quickly fading as if it was going into the earths shadow. First thought was it might have been the Tiangong-1 space station, but a quick check online showed it nowhere near our latitude. A check of the satellite databases showed no objects matching the magnitude, altitude or azimuth observed for the time frame. Whatever they were they appeared to be very high altitude, possibly tumbling and moving very, very slowly compared to satellites or aircraft. Observer #1 has been an astro-imager and satellite tracker for 15yrs+, an aviation enthusiast for over 40 yrs, and has seen a lot of strange looking, but easily explainable, things in the sky. These were VERY odd objects indeed!! Observer #2 has had one other observation of different unknown objects 3 1/2 years ago about 2 miles from this location. Possibly tumbling space debris, giving off intermittent reflections of the Sun?? PD
March 29, 2018 · 10:23 PM · FLASH
Coos Bay, OR
Bright flashes of light, like a camera flash jumping around night sky.
March 26, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Prineville, OR
Was sitting in car on top of a view point and kept seeing a bright light. We saw a helicopter going towards the object and before it got close, a dark cloud hid it. When the cloud left, the object barely had a glow or shape. The helicopter started circling the object before another cloud submerged it and the helicopter left. When the cloud disappeared once more, the object was gone. It was in the South sky, left and upward from Orion.