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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
November 15, 2016 · 3:29 AM · OVAL
Portland, OR
I opened my door to let my dog outside and the sky was clear with some overhead clouds and it was silent. I looked at the sky to my amazement I saw an oval hovering object with a very strong light. After gazing at it for a few seconds, I became very lightheaded and went to lay down.
November 14, 2016 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Hillsboro, OR
The night of the sighting the weather was a low cloud cover and medium to high wind. There was a moon but it was not visible that night and was far to the east at that time. I am a public works Inspector and was documenting work a contractor was performing on a signal pole. I was looking up at the work on the pole and the sky beyond the pole was dark and no image in the sky could be seen with my normal vision. After taking a digital picture of the pole it was immediately noticed that an image appeared in the background. The digital camera caught a single grey saucer like figure. I continued my normal schedule of work for the night and later went back to my office to download the photos. On my computer screen it was clear that the object had form, shape, distinctive ridges on the outside and an oblong portal. This photo was taken completely by chance whereas myself and eight others working that night were not aware it was there.
November 11, 2016 · 11:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Keizer, OR
Hello, I was sitting in my ground level apartment this morning at approximately 11 am, when I hear a sonic boom. I've lived near airports before, so I've heard sonic booms before, but this one was unusually loud and long. It last approximately 13 seconds, and was done so close to the ground that I could feel it though my wheel-chair. It’s very unusual for us to have sonic booms where I live, although the Salem airport does have military vehicles, and aircraft, it is located almost directly south from my apartment. The boom had an odd characteristic, I don't know if it’s from how close to the ground it was, but there seemed to be a low level rumble that preceded it by a second or two followed by the usual explosion of sound a boom creates. From how it sounded it was going from south to north, and as I said it took nearly 13 seconds for the boom to begin to fade. Unfortunately, I wasn't dressed well enough to step outside to see what created the sound, but I can safely say I've never heard a boom happen like that before. I'm lived in the apartment I'm in for 4 years, and lived around airports most of my life. I lived near the Salem airport for 7 nearing 8 years, PDX the Portland International Airport for 10 years, and 10 years due west of the Hillsboro airport where the Blue Angels flew overhead during the airshow all 10 years I lived there. I’m no military expert, let me say that out front. I’ve worked in customer service most of my life, but have seen several different military vehicles living near the airports I’ve lived in, and while I couldn’t ID them, I am familiar with the booms they make. I’ve never heard one quite like what I heard today between the preceding rumble, the odd vibration to the boom, or the feeling of the chair under me vibrating slightly from it. Hope this helps with all future ventures in to investigations.
November 11, 2016 · 11:00 AM
West Salem, OR
At around 11:00am on 11/11/2016 I was standing in my kitchen about to put something in my microwave when suddenly a sound like a very large aircraft sounded directly above my house. The noise rumbled through the house. I am a private pilot and it did not sound like any normal aircraft. The weather here was in thick fog so there was no way to see what could have moved so fast and without the sound of jet engines. I actually though a plane was descending fast and about to crash. The noise came and went so fast. There was neither an approaching nor a trailing sound. It was definitely above the house. My house sits about 500' above sea level and my thought was that the craft was far below legal limits. A few minutes later I heard what sounded like military aircraft above the fog seeming to move northward and a couple of minutes later I again heard a military sounding craft streaking above the fog - it is most unusual to have military aircraft except for the Reserve helicopters that sometimes fly in the area out of McNary Field here in Salem, Oregon. Sent from my iPhone
November 11, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Keizer, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 9, 2016 · 4:35 PM · DISK
Silverton, OR
I was driving my car home from school when I briefly looked up at the moon and thought to myself how strange it was that there is such a thing as a moon. Then something caught my eye and I turned my head toward the horizon. It was a clear day so I could see very well. What had caught my eye was moving fast across the sky. It looked like a emerald disk. It had a transparent teardrop shell around it. The object was releasing a short tail of exhaust as it flew and was about one and a half times as long as the actual object. The exhaust instantly dissipated after it reached that length. The object made no noise as far as I could hear, and it was only visible for three seconds before it disappeared. The one thing that stood out the most to me was how bright the emerald center was. I was also surprised by how fast it was going. Around the speed of a fighter jet. As soon as it vanished, I tried to pull over safely but could not at the time and only ma! naged to stop and get out of my car to look but there was no other sign of the object.
November 9, 2016 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Eugene, OR
I have a five-minute video, taken around 1am from approximately 18th & Chambers, looking north. There were multiple lights, orange, traveling from west to east with a slightly upward arch. They seemed to just disappear as they moved upward one by one in relative formation. I do NOT believe in the idea of aliens visiting our planet, but I am not able to identify what I saw or filmed on my android phone. I kept the image static, did not zoom in, and did not vocalize during the video. You are able to see the lights and surrounding buildings in the frame. Since I stopped in the middle of 18th street, occasionally a westbound vehicle is viewable as it passes by. I have not uploaded the image anywhere and have only shown it to a few friends to get their reactions and interpretations. No one to this point seems to have come up with a plausible explanation. I've been unable to find any other reports of any celestial lights of this kind online. I am not comfortable uploading the video but am willing to have anyone who's not a quack interested in viewing it to do so. I am worried about uploading the video as I am NOT interested in having it show up on some TV idiotic show. Contact me via email or phone if interested. I would like someone to possibly tell me what these might have been.
November 7, 2016 · 10:30 AM · OTHER
Portland, OR
Looking NNW a single object transited east to west across approximately 60 degrees of my point of view approximately 20 degrees above the horizon. Conditions were mostly cloudy with periods of bright sunshine and blue skies, temperature around 62F. Object appeared below the cloud line, and changed color from white to reflective/metallic, to bright metallic red/orange, then back to reflective/metallic. Seemingly more square shaped and moving at a high rate of speed. Distance down range of my POV was difficult to determine as there was no point of reference. There is an Air National Guard base at PDX, the flight path of this object would have crossed out-bound traffic from the base at 45 degrees from my POV. There was no contrail or exhaust. No sound could be heard but that could have been due to distance and that I was inside the house. (Though airplanes can be heard from within the house.) I am near the out-bound flight path for the Air National Guard and in and out-bound traffic for PDX. There are also a number of smaller regional airports within a 10 mile radius. I have been observing the local skies for over 20 years. I am not a trained observer.
October 26, 2016 · 7:10 PM · OTHER
Oklahoma City, OR
On Thursday 26 October 2016, at 1910, sighting occurred in Oklahoma City around NW 50th & Portland Avenue. Three of us were on our way to a family function, when we were getting in the vehicle 1 of us looked straight up into the sky & witnessed a BRIGHT orange flare like object. The object moved in a straight line traveling north, I observed the object through binoculars. Another took several photographs. From the time I observed this object, straight overhead, until we could no longer see it was about 3 minutes. At the time this occurred there were no stars visible. We immediately contacted a local tv station & newspaper. The next day we contacted NORAD & the local astronomy club. Common opinion amongst my little group is that it was a satellite reflecting the sun. Although, no satellites were listed to be visible at that time.
October 14, 2016 · 5:48 PM · CIRCLE
Bend, OR
Saw a white object traveling through the clouds. Object was moving slowly and seemed to jiggle at times. The object passed slowly above Awbrey Butte. Object sat still at times, then moved and disappeared near Pilot Butte very fast behind clouds and emerged once again slowly, then darted off. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 10, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Astoria, OR
My daughter and I saw a round light floating across the sky above the Columbia river through our living room window, I ran outside to get a better look and the object made no noise as it went off into the distance and disappeared suddenly.
October 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bend, OR
Saw a flickering light that changed colors (white, red, green, blue). It stayed in the same general area, but would zig zag and dart occasionally. It also appeared to move closer and fade. When it was closest it became brilliant and the colors were more apparent.
September 29, 2016 · 9:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Canby, OR
A light flashes down with rainbows in a video my mom took of a bird. After a second or two of this, next in the video a small rectangular or double cigar haled object goes across the screen in three frames. The video captures at 16fps so the object blurs across the screen. I made stills to capture the object as it is too difficult to see if you watch the whole video. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 28, 2016 · 7:50 PM · DISK
Beaverton, OR
The object was flying South, about as high as an airplane, but looked different enough from a plane that it caught our eye and we continued to watch. When it flew over Sexton Mountain Park it "dropped" 2 fireball looking things from it that burned out within a couple of seconds. It continued to fly South until it was out of our view. I caught it all on my cell phone camera and once the objects fell, you can clearly see a hole in the center of the object. Never seen anything like this before.
September 27, 2016 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Redmond, OR
My boyfriend, my friend, and I were sitting on my back porch talking. My back porch faces south towards a city park. We have a clear view of the sky with no houses or tall trees or lights to obstruct our vision. I always have my eyes up because I've seen quite a few "strange" things in the night sky over the years and I'm very familiar with the flight patterns of helicopters and planes in our area because we have a local airport as well as a flight school. I'm also very familiar with satellites, the ISS, planets, stars, constellations, etc. I've been a sky watcher and amateur astronomer for almost 10 years. I try to remain level headed and logical when I see "objects" and I've seen plenty over the years but have always debunked them as one thing or another. I have only had one other incident besides this one that I believed was report worthy. I just want to say that so people know that I'm not "sighting happy" or anything. Anyways, we were all outside talking and I caught something out of the corner of my eye over my left shoulder going at a rapid rate from north to south. I gasped and pointed it out to everyone. It was a dimly lit, fast moving object that seemed to be within our atmosphere. It flew south very fast, I actually thought it was a dim shooting star for a second. But instead of fading out like shooting stars do, it stayed constant and fluidly dipped and zig zagged and then changed course from north to south to south west, then disappeared. We were all in shock and have no idea what we saw.
September 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Keizer, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2016 · 7:50 PM · DISK
Beaverton, OR
We were headed east on Sexton Mountain Drive and I see this unusual light/object flying in the sky. I tell my husband to pull over, grab my phone and just as I start to taking pictures, it drops these 2 fireball looking things from it. The fire-looking light on the objects dropped, extinguished within a couple of seconds of dropping. The "aircraft" never stopped flying and continued South until out of our view. I caught several pictures on my phone.
September 25, 2016 · 8:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Eugene, OR
I am a veteran of the military and an amateur astronomer so I am pretty good at aircraft identifications and where lights should be in the sky. Last night, 09/25/2016, at approximately 20:15 I saw what looked to be a triangle shaped craft over the city of Eugene, Oregon. I had just stepped out on my balcony for a smoke and sat down in my chair facing East overlooking most of NE Eugene and N Springfield. Looking in the sky above and well beyond the neighbor's house at the sight line of the power lines I saw 3 orange lights equidistant apart and in a triangle. It occurred to me that there shouldn't be bright stars in the sky in that area that time of night and time of year so I looked closer. As I looked closer, I saw the bottom most of the lights moving and then I thought to myself: that makes sense it is commercial aviation. So I looked back at the other 2 lights and saw they were moving together too and that it was one triangle shaped craft rotating on its center axis. All the while I noticed the bright orange lights were shining through what looked like heat shimmer coming off the desert floor. Very much like a scene from the movie, "Predator," the "cloaking" around it wavered for just a brief second and when it did I saw a large triangle shaped craft with smooth sides and a smooth metallic bottom with a smaller circular abutment in the center with a light bluish glow. The craft stopped rotating and it looked like a harrier jet pulling up its nose on a vertical takeoff and then it disappeared. It did leave but as it was leaving the "cloaking" kicked back in and it disappeared from sight. Like something out of the X files 2 helicopters showed up within 30 seconds of the object disappearing. Eugene is a small city and helicopters are fairly rare here with just a couple of overflights a day but these stayed on station for the better part of an hour circling over the Eugene/Springfield area.
September 24, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Tigard, OR
Two bright lights, side by side at an angle (approx. 45 degree), near Andromeda constellation. Thought they were stars, but I know there are no such stars in that area that bright. Just as I realized that fact, they began to faded. The one on the right faded quicker than the one on the left.
September 22, 2016 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
My wife and I walked out on our back porch and immediately noticed a brighter than usual light high above Portland. I was looking west from eastern Portland. The light was bright, like a star but would occasionally flash a light but I couldn't tell the color. The object was stationary, but would float slowly from side to side and sometimes up and down. At times it would do extremely quick short jumps in all directions. It took the object about 15 minutes to move what appeared to be maybe a couple miles......in the same amount of time I saw multiple airplanes fly by at normal speed. The object eventually disappeared behind the incoming cloud coverage. PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE SAW THIS!
September 21, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Beaverton, OR
A very large bright blue light that object was seen monetarily, then disappeared in the clouds. The object seemed to give off it’s own light. There was no sound, and to the best of my knowledge there were no other witnesses. I did manage to take a photo with my cell phone. The object is only partially visible in my photograph, but it was clearly illuminating the cloud. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CROSS
Aumsville, OR
A strong single bright white anomaly, out shining the surrounding porch and shop lights, hovered anywhere from 20 ft above the tree line, and what seemed to be around a quarter mile away. From where it was placed the object hovered and slowly swayed from side to side not moving in any certain direction. It didn't make a single noise. The trees and small bushes it was near didn't seem to cast any sign of shadows. Cars passed by and it seemed to almost look or follow their direction of travel. Before leaving to travel towards the object, it faded to a deep red colored upside down "L," then vanished to nothing. The nights sky was quickly filled with the moons glow and strange cloud formations like layered disks appeared above where it once sat. It didn't give off any emotions such as fear or excitement, but only the curiosity of what it actually was.
September 15, 2016 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Canby, OR
9-15-16 On the evening of September 15th, 2016, at around 10:05 P.M., I was driving east on Arndt Rd. towards Canby, Oregon, through a stretch of open farmland, where I noticed two glowing yellowish amber colored balls of light hovering over a field to the right hand side of the road. Both of them where close to one another with no flashing lights as a normal aircraft would have and they were mostly stationary. I could not make out a specific object just the round balls of glowing light. Each of them where larger and much closer than stars yet not nearly as large as the moon and very low on the horizon just over the field in the distance. They appeared to be moving slightly from side to side to side irregularly not in sync with one another. I observed the balls of light as I drove past the field for approximately two minutes and proceeded on to Canby. The sky was mostly clear with few clouds. About myself. I’m a male, 23 years old, single. I spend a decent amount of time outdoors, fishing and camping. I worked as a flagger and during grounds keeping and landscape maintenance. I have never seen anything like this before.
September 14, 2016 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Salem, OR
We witnesse 11-14-16 Monday/late evening in search of the "Supermoon" 2 people were driving down Hwy 22 towards Stayton, Or. We witnessed a cluster of blue lights blinking randomly and moving around sporadically for 3 minutes, then disappeared. Witness provides no contact information. PD