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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 26, 2015 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Springfield, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 25, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Salem, OR
I was walking the dog and noticed one reddish orange orb moving at a steady pace, but not fast. At first it appeared to be a plane on fire; however it continued to travel across the sky going northeast to southwest. There were no flashing lights or tail, which may indicate a plane or meteor. As It moved across the sky it appeared as if it were a Chinese lantern but it was too big for that and higher in the sky, yet lower than a jet that was also flying in the area. Because I was walking the dog, and wanted a witness, I started to jog home to alert my wife and son. Before I reached the house it had slowly disappeared. By the time I got to the driveway there were three more following the same path. My son came outside and we observed them as they flew by. They seemed close enough that we should have been able to hear engine noise, but they were completely silent. Each object slowly disappeared into the night sky. It took ~45 seconds to 1 minute for each object to cross the sky from the northeast and disappear while travelling in a southwesterly direction. Witness provides no contact information. PD
November 25, 2015 · 7:11 PM · FIREBALL
Dunes City, OR
For 3 seconds, I saw a big (1/3 size of a full moon) bright green fireball (possibly ball lightning) burning to the ground from left to right at a 10 degree angle from approximately 300 feet elevation just north of the Summerbell Arm of Woahink Lake between Florence and Dunes City, Oregon. It was really beautiful very bright green like it was made out of powerful green laser light and seemed to burn out even drip green "lava" as it burnt out just before or even as it hit the ground. It was NOT a meteor as it was falling much much much too slowly to be a meteor. Google Project Twinkle and Green fireballs and ball lightning. I wasn't able to capture any image, but it was a really excellent big bright green fireball. NOTE: This was so close to Woahink Lake that if it was ball lightning, I suspect the warm temperature of the lake water and the cold air temperature may have intensified the sighting. Also, at first I thought I was seeing a big green firework fizzling out, but there was no report or boom from any huge firework. It was not a firework.
November 25, 2015 · 4:15 AM · SPHERE
Corvallis, OR
Observed a very bright set of lights hovering (but Def moving east to west). The lights seemed to show a consistent bottom but intermittently (as it would move from East to west) would extend out and for a brief time it revealed what could only be described as a translucent top of saucer like object. After observing for at least 20 min, 3 much smaller orb like lights appeared 2 fly towards the object (one at a time) and disappear into it. Eventually the object faded out of sight. Probable sighting of Venus? PD
November 22, 2015 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Bend, OR
We were upstairs when we noticed a orange & yellow fireball like shape flying somewhat slowly from south to north. It wasn't large, much smaller than a plane or helicopter but bigger than must drones. Light was not exterior, it glowed from within and was flying fairly low, perhaps 150 - 200 feet above the tallest trees in our area. We watched until it disappeared, about 5 minutes or so, never seen anything like it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 20, 2015 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Tualatin, OR
Triangle pattern of large, round reddish-pink lights with intermittent yellow/green edges flying slowly east to west. Either 7 or 9 lights - didn't look like "light bulbs" - more like light shining out of round holes in bottom of craft. Pulsing, slightly electronic machine sound. I am a 55 year old, college educated, moderately conservative female.
November 17, 2015 · 5:27 AM · FLASH
Sutherlin, OR
I went outside to smoke a cigarette with my friend, when I noticed the stars seemed to be coming out. The first individual star I noticed that seem to be different at first, looked like a normal star, it seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, with what seemed to be moving a bit side to side, then slowly disappeared as the blinking began getting smaller. We took like 15 minutes and decided to walk to his house. As we walked towards his house we looked up and saw what seemed to be a line of about four of these same lights. They were desicised in the stars, but we're larger more vibrent lights that within the next 8 minutes did the same odd flashing and disappearing activity.
November 12, 2015 · 10:00 PM
Bend/Burns (between; on Hwy. 20), OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
West Salem, OR
A white ball shaped light moving at a super high hate of speed 200 feet above ground level. Minutes later a green ball shaped light moved at a high rate of speed past my window. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 3, 2015 · 9:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
I saw a triangular object with a light trail behind it move REALLY FAST through the sky, way faster than I have ever seen a plane move. It was so fast it almost seemed like a comet, but the object was a defined shape. It flew out of my line of sight even though I tried to walk quickly to see what it was.
November 3, 2015 · 12:49 AM · LIGHT
Keizer, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 31, 2015 · 3:22 AM · SPHERE
Oregon City, OR
I tried to get my wife but the clouds closed up.
October 30, 2015 · 8:30 PM · DIAMOND
Dayton, OR
One black or dark grey diamond shaped craft hovering less then 500 feet over a house off the main road. It had lights on all sides, red and white. Craft was visible nearly a mile away because of lights on the craft. It was night and dark, but clear no clouds, good visibility
October 29, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Joseph, OR
Walking outside last night to look at the moon to the east to see how full it was I turned around to look West and saw what looked like a reverse shooting star. A bright strip of light going vertical up towards a cloud in the evening sky. When it reached the cloud it made a bright red flash and was gone....I stood there observing the sky waiting to see where it went and I never saw the light again, even when the cloud past the spot where the light disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 29, 2015 · 8:13 PM · FIREBALL
Bend, OR
At first, I thought it might be a planet (like Mars), but then I realized it was hovering, actually moving smoothly (intentionally) horizontally and vertically, was much larger and saturated in color than a planet would be. Also, the light was glowing from within -- it wasn't directional or a "beam" of light, so it didn't look like a small aircraft or a drone. And it didn't have any blinking lights on it. It looked like a bright orange fireball that was somewhat stationary, but moving very intentionally at times. I was in awe of this glowing ball and overwhelmed. It finally glowed really bright and flickered once, became instantly smaller, and then faded out to a small dot and disappeared as if it had quickly zoomed away. We tried to capture it on our iPad and iphone, with one poor quality image to show for it.
October 28, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Astoria, OR
I happen to be outside and noticed a low flying (less than 100 ft.) what I thought was a helicopter or plane and realized it was neither in a field at my home. There were at least 4 or 5 vehicles flying in formation mimicking the lights of a plane or helicopter. Although, I could hear a jet above but couldn't see it, the formation made no sound as I filmed the video a few minutes later and the jet had passed. I had seen it the prior two days in another field in front of my home. In the last 3 mo. I have witnessed roughly 30 or so different types of crafts that are not of this world around my home following an encounter I had with a different UFO and aliens or beings on Sept. 23, 2015, in which my car was disabled on hwy 101. Prior to that I had never witnessed a UFO let alone it's occupants. Since then, I continually see UFOs virtually everywhere I look usually in the night sky.
October 24, 2015 · 10:48 PM · OTHER
Portland, OR
Standing in backyard taking the dog out. An unknown object possibly rectangle in shape with three orange fire-like lights inside of it, the middle light the brightest, came diagonally from the south east. Object was moving steadily and straight, about twenty feet above the tree line. Object was silent but seemed very close for the first minute. Object continued to the North West moving diagonally and swiftly gaining altitude for about another minute until breaking cloud cover near a recent jet trail and disappearing.
October 24, 2015 · 5:02 PM · OTHER
Wilsonville, OR
There was an air balloon flying near Wilsonville, Oregon, on October 24, 2015, at around 5 pm, I was looking at it and the surrounding sky, when I was looking at the southern sky area I noticed a "shiny object" near a cloud that moved "odd," it was still for a little while and then turned in a circular manner changing direction towards the north (Portland, OR), it moved for a little while going north, the object stopped and hovered near another cloud, it stay there for another while, then kept moving again towards the north until it was no longer visible. The object was WAY up in the sky, it looked shinny, possibly metallic, and had a roundish shape, it was way up there so couldn't really make out any specific details. I had a camcorder with me and was so excited I was watching a "UFO", I thought I was recording the object, but unfortunately forgot to push the record button, only got a tiny segment and some frames, it was very difficult to see on the camcorder anyways. A friend was walking with me, I told him to look, he got to see the object too, not just me. I'm reporting it just in case someone else might have seen the same object in the sky around the same time.
October 23, 2015 · 6:56 PM · EGG
Happy Valley, OR
(Description written/recorded the night witnessed. I intended to previously submit this, however circumstances following the event caused the submission to be forgotten following drafting the description and posting the video. I showed this video the Clyde Lewis and he encouraged be to submit the report.) Video of object can be seen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/NU6_C_Gqgnc Me and my mother were traveling south-east bound in my car, taking a fork in the road when I spotted and pointed out three objects that appeared to be comets (first thing that went through my mind).. I only saw one at first but two more came into sight moments later as I winded down the curvy road. (total of three) I pointed them out in a bit of a panic because they appeared to be really big. They started out half the size of the moon, though shrank as they moved and appeared to be moving away over and past the mountain. Their movements were 'graceful' being the only way I can describe it. Their tails were white with a bit yellowish toward the end. I slowed to a crawl as we neared an intersection, and noted they were totally silent. It was not like a firework, nor a flare, the tail seemed to emit off the object so slowly (especially at first when they were quite long). The objects continued making sharp banking turns side to side independent of one another. The tails curved in response to the movements, glowing fire-like tails lingered quite a ways behind the objects creating them (to such an extent that when they made turns, the tails formed C-shapes). At this point the third lowest UFO dipped below the houses and vanished as they moved over the mountain. (picture them in a triangle pattern with a flat face down of the triangle, the left most point was lower than the right most two points, with the top point high near the moon in the sky viewing SE) I hurried as quickly as I could into the school parking lot (trying to take care, there were still cars and possibly kids around) at that intersection and parked as quickly as possible. At this point the right most light was dipping below the house's roof lines, and as I struggled out of the car, flipping my phone on and trying to get it into camera mode the object took one final turn from right to left. Finally I got the camera up and started taking video of the final object which had drastically slowed it's banking movements, and was now slowly descending before vanishing behind a house's roof top. Towards the end of the sighting, about the time I parked, the object's tails significantly reduced in length. I know exactly where I parked, and I was facing down towards two homes. So I know right where it was in the sky in what direction. We proceeded to rush in the direction of where the objects dipped behind the houses (which are, in turn, on a mountain/hill. If the objects were still in the sky they could still be fairly high in elevation just on the other side of the mountain. This was our line of thought as we attempted to get on the other side of Mt. Scott.) My mother riding with me got a better look (since I was driving). She reports "The object was silver/metallic egg-shaped. The flame was undulating and was being emitted from object's widest perimeter in a ribbon type form." The video picks up moments before the final object disappeared behind the houses to the other side of the mountain. By this time the objects had grown much smaller due to the distance they've moved and two of the three weren't visible. The phone's camera shifted to a red tone, ruining the color representation of the object. (I have no idea why). The video is unedited, and the zoom was digital zoom on the phone. For a brief moment before I zoom in, you can see the moon and surroundings for size and perspective. Exact location information and directional information available upon request.
October 23, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Milwaukie, OR
seen bright light in sky but thought it was just a plane very low. then the lights went from bright to low, then flew to right and disappeared in a sec. while the other one was just about to disappear a second craft came. low lights, then bright lights. all this was over 201 freeway in Clackamas, Oregon. at least that's what the area seemed to be from where we live, which is only about 5 blocks from freeway. second flying object hovered a little bit, just as the 1st one, but the seemed to fall. these objects had varies lights. red and white and possible one other. The 2rd object came and disappeared within seconds. we recorded one, but it was on a phone, however it did show it just disappear. extremely odd. but cool. :)
October 19, 2015 · 7:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Gresham, OR
I saw a triangle shaped craft with three colored lights. It appeared very faint in the sky. It was traveling at a very very fast speed almost like it was freefalling through the sky heading downward toward the Portland Airport. It travelled with no sound that I could detect. I was a little startled so I went back into my house where I told my friend about what I had seen.
October 19, 2015 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Keizer, OR
Sunday October. 19 @ approx.00:15. I looked out the front window of the house that faces east. I was looking to see if the clouds had clearer before going to bed. I then noticed a round object in the north east sky. The angle of the object was about 30 deg., it was small but really bright and glowing red to yellow. At first I thought maybe a planet or satellite. I watched ," and it just did not look right." I then went outside to get a better look. I was thinking maybe a helicopter or aircraft. It was some distance away so I could hear no sound. I continued to stand and watch for what now had been maybe 5-6 min. And all of a sudden a ball of light dropped from the original ball. a few more seconds went by and 4 more balls dropped from the object. These balls fell straight down. About 10 seconds after the last dropped ball the original object faded out.
October 15, 2015 · 12:30 PM · DISK
Eugene, OR
Simply put – I was taking a series of pictures from the top of Skinner Butte, elevation 645 feet, in Eugene, Oregon. One of my photos was zoomed into Autzen Stadium (Ducks) the others were of the downtown area. There was quite a bit of haze from lingering fires on the horizon which made it difficult to take any quality photos. About an hour later I was viewing on my PC when I saw a disk – UFO – pretty clearly over and past the stadium. I did not see or was aware of this object whatsoever when I took the picture. My camera is a new Sony Cybershot DSC-HX90V. I had the zoom almost all the way out but was still able to capture a freeze shot at 1/320 of a second. I was fortunate to have it on Program Auto mode with the ISO set to 80. I used Cyberlink Photo Director to clean up the image by increasing the contrast and edging effect some. With those simple adjustments it becomes quite obvious I have captured a large Saucer Disk. You can use the cell tower to get an impression of the size as it is beyond that. Maybe 60 feet long and 25 feet high. (That is purely speculative of course) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 14, 2015 · 1:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Bend, OR
In the sky a small silver triangle, flashing lights, no chem trail or vapor trail emitting from the craft. The triangle was spinning or rotating in a circle as it traveled north/north east across the sky. We could not hear any sound coming from it, but there were lights both white and red flashing.