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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.
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September 17, 2015 · 10:22 AM · TRIANGLE
La Grande (atop Mt. Emily), OR
After watching the black triangle craft for a couple of minutes I noticed A SECOND TRIANGLE incoming from the North. Shortly thereafter, the two black triangles joined at the hip and began flying side by side until out of sight, a short time later. Both craft appeared to be of the same make and design. FINAL NOTE: During the summer of 2014 I spotted two more of these black triangle craft. The first craft I saw flying overhead in Pateros, Washington. A few weeks later I saw another one of these craft flying over near Hanford, Washingtion. Each black triangle craft have matched in size, lighting and performance. These craft move very slowly as you may already know. I ATTEST THESE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE AND ACCURATE TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. Thank You....
September 14, 2015 · 3:05 AM · LIGHT
Roseburg, OR
Very fast moving bright light moving towards what looked to be the ground. It had a flashing blue or red light. It was moving so fast, I could not tell which color was flashing. But I did see both colors. Never seen something move so fast before. It was there and gone in a blink of an eye. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Central Point, OR
I saw a streak of blue/green light in night sky close to Central Point, Oregon on 9-13-2015 around 9pm. It seemed close not like a falling star more like lighting (but straight) and was unlike any kind of lighting I have ever seen. There was no storm or rain just a clear starry night sky at the time. The streak was very bright in color and coming from the sky downward at a slanted angle. I could see the straight blue/green light as a whole line at once and unlike a comet did not seem to have a larger front with a tail but uniformed in size from top to bottom. There was no nose and was not above city lights so it was very bright and rather shocking at first site, However, also rather pretty. I just would like to know what it was I saw. I believe it to be an unusual but explainable occurrence…I just don’t know what kind and I thought you might know. Thank You, J PS...when I say it was blue-green I don't mean it was mixed it was more green on the outsides and blue in the middle if that helps.
September 11, 2015 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Cheshire, OR
Big glowing green orb. As soon as I seen it it seemed to know I seen it and took off as I ran to keep my eyes on it it then changed direction downwards and disappeared right before it hit the earth. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
September 11, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Salem, OR
My two friends and I were in our backyard on the patio around 7:30 PM. It was pretty much daylight. We were chatting when I noticed what I can only describe as a ball of light traveling West to East (I was facing South). The object did not have a clearly defined outline--no hard edges. It was a bright luminous mass and while I would describe it as round in shape it did not appear perfectly round or disc-like. It was moving quickly, was completely silent and moved in a straight line. We tracked the object as it moved in and out of sight behind trees. It was not high in the sky. Just about the time we lost sight of the object, another one appeared. It looked like the other one and moved along the same path. Again, we tracked it until it moved out of view. It was not shaped like a plane and none of us had ever seen anything similar moving in the way these objects did. One might describe this as having the characteristics of a comet. It gave the impression of a gaseous ball of light, in that it did not appear solid exactly. And while you could not see through the object, it had a translucent character. It had soft edges and a glow or aura. Shortly after this event we did see several planes in the sky, which only reinforced how very unique the previous objects were.
September 10, 2015 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
There are two bright white lights in the sky. One is slowly moving down, and the other one is not moving at all. What are they?
September 10, 2015 · 3:15 AM · CHANGING
Newberg, OR
While outside with our dog in our yard sometime around 3:10am to 3:20am early Thursday morning, September 10th, I looked up into the northeast sky seeing a light colored object. It was flying from the north to the south similar to a satellite, which at first I thought it was. Suddenly though the object became very bright, emitted a brief burst that created a halo around it lasting for a few seconds, then within another 2 seconds it turned sharply left (east) quickly getting smaller and smaller and disappeared. There was no sound. That night, the sky was especially clear, with more stars visible than most often.
September 9, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
Lebanon, OR
Last night (9/9/2015), I walked out of my house at about 8:30 pm to go close the door on our chicken coop for the evening. As I was walking back up the driveway towards my house I saw a red, blue, and white cluster of lights traveling up from the south. The cluster flew directly overhead (traveling in a northerly direction). I initially thought it was a plane. Where I live, it is not uncommon to see red flashing running lights of commercial airplanes flying south to north. My guess is that these planes fly up from California heading north to the Portland airport. So they are often visible in the Willamette Valley (where I am located). The planes stick to a regular pathway, and I see them on a fairly regular basis (sometimes during the day and sometimes at night). Nothing unusual about it. I am not an aviation expert, however I am convinced the lights I saw last night were not airplanes. For the following reasons: 1) There were at least 12 different sets of these flashing lights visible over a period of three hours 2) Several times they stopped moving, clustered together, and then changed directions 3) The lights were brighter than a commercial aircraft and appeared lower in the sky than the planes I sometimes see in the night sky. In addition, the paths that these lights took did not conform to the regular pathways I see commercial aircraft travel. They were predominantly moving south to north, however not all of them. Some came from other directions (out of the west moving east, or out of the east moving north. I was very intrigued by what I was watching, so I went into my house and asked my wife to come outside. She came out onto the lawn and we both watched at least four different sets of these lights traveling in a south to northerly direction over the course of about five minutes. She shrugged and said she didn’t know what they were and went back into the house. So after a few minutes, I went into the house too. About 30 minutes later, I went back outside to see if the lights were still around. And they were. Over the course of the next two hours I watched them travel around the sky. It was kind of cold (upper 40’s, low 50’s) so I didn’t stay outside the entire time. I’d watch them for 20 minutes or so, go in the house to warm up, then go back out again. I took about six short videos of the lights with my cell phone. However, none came out very well. The video caught a few blinking flashes, but the quality is pretty poor. At about 11:15 pm, I went back out to check again and they were gone. So by my count they were in the sky from about 8:30 (just after dark) and hung around for almost three hours. The general pattern of travel and behavior of the lights were as follows: a) They traveled from the southern horizon (like at the tree line) then traveled north-northeast to basically the other horizon. So I would look south and watch them come up, fly overhead (or in some cases say 10 degrees off the eastern horizon) then I’d have to turn 180 degrees until I was facing north. The lights would come to rest above the northern horizon and hold that position. That wasn’t the exclusive pattern. Sometimes it was the opposite (coming out of the north, then coming to a stop on the southern horizon). I also saw them coming out of the east (as if they were coming over from the direction of the City of Bend). Others would came out of the west. However I would say 85% of the time the pattern was south to north, then coming to a stop in the northern sky. Then they would either blink out or keep moving north until they were out of sight. One cluster seemed to sit there the entire time I was watching. Most of the others seemed to move around, come and! go, but this one seemed to remain in view constantly. b) The speed of travel wasn’t particularly fast. I would say slightly faster than what a commercial aircraft speed looks like in the sky. They certainly weren’t zipping around, darting from one corner to another at high speeds. Just sort of a lazy, steady speed moving from one side of the horizon to the other. c) Over the period of time that I watched these things, a few of the light clusters approached each other. At one time—I saw three clusters come fairly close together and hold their position for a few minutes. Then they moved back away from each other. That really convinced me that something about this was quite strange and certainly not an airplane. I suppose they could have been helicopters. We’ve had a lot of wildfires in the region this summer and maybe there were helicopters moving equipment around? That’s the only explanation that I can think of. And I think that’s a bit of a stretch since I didn’t hear any sound whatsoever. Again, I’m no aviation expert—however it would seem dangerous for helicopters to fly so close together in clusters at nighttime. At one point, I tried contacting a friend of mine who lives in the neighborhood to see if he could see them too. Unfortunately, it was late by then and I wasn’t able to reach him. However, I was glad to see on your web-site that there was a couple from Lebanon that reported something similar on 8/19/2015 and on 8/11/2015. I wish to remain anonymous, however would be glad to talk by phone or exchange info by email if you would like any additional details. Thanks for your time. (( We spoke at length via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be exceptionally eloquent and sober-minded. Also, because of both his academic background, and his line of work, we suspect that he is an excellent, and highly reliable, witness. PD
September 8, 2015 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Portland, OR
Was out with my girlfriend & our dog in a field by our house. We always lay out and watch the skies over a cup of coffee or cigarette. We were laying on our backs looking straight up, and we caught a view of a white, or gray circle. There were no lights, nothing was reflecting off of it. Just a dim gray circle about the size of a dime flying quickly across the sky. Took about 45 seconds to fully cross our viewable area. Which is pretty large considering lack of buildings or trees. It was headed SE from NW.
September 5, 2015 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Ashland, OR
We live slightly up in the hills of Ashland about 10 minutes out of town, surrounded by trees. Both of my sons (ages 9 and 7) were outside camping in a tent they had setup on our deck facing East toward Grizzly Peak. This was the third night they had slept out there alone in a row. Around 11:30pm they came running into the house, petrified. I was dozing off lightly on the couch on the north side of the house. Same level. My older son leads the way, his face is white and jaw is dropped. He's stuttering for words telling me that a big disc flew down over their tent and around our house. I asked them to elaborate, and they both started telling me the story in tandem and in agreement, practically word for word: My older son was playing on a device when he saw a very bright pulsating light through the top of the tent near a small opening. He saw it, but didn't care. He said moments later the light became so bright that he had to investigate. When he got out of the tent and looked up he said directly over their tent was a very bright light pulsation from a craft. The light was alone and pulsating from an eye shaped hole. He stared at it confused and thought for a split moment that it was a helicopter or an air plane. He said it then started showing different lights all around its body, and he saw that it was a disc shape, and that it was much closer than he thought, just near the tree line. He screamed for his brother to come see and shouted that it was a UFO. My younger son now begins telling the story: He said to my older son 'yea right --- your lying shut up', my older son insisted and stuck his head in the tent and yelled at him to come up. The younger boy comes out of the tent and said that he saw the large disc shape object moving slowly now over their heads and down to the house, blinking multitudes of lights. Both boys are simultaneously speaking and using hang gestures to show me how the lights were moving around the spherical center of this disc. "So many" lights trailing everywhere. Multiple colors, blue red and yellow. Then, perfectly timed they both say "then boom! One huge light came from the center! Shining all over us!." So bright it lit up the trees. They described the object as having a round dome on the top and bottom that the lights ran down. The the dome being bigger on top, with a bright light going around it horizontally. I was stunned at their reactions! This is extremely odd, especially for my older son who does not believe in anything other-worldly, and my younger son who seldom tells a lie. And never tells a lie without obviously displaying it with his body language. I asked them what the object looked like. They said it was "amazing", "beautiful", "like something they had never seen before ever". My son described it as metallic and struggled to find words through his emotion. I ask him how big it was, and they both agreed it was at least the size of a bus, if not 2 buses. I asked them if they thought maybe it was a drone or quadcopter? My older son said it could have been but that it was huge. I suggested that if it were a drone and were large that it would be very loud. He immediately realized and told me that this object was completely silent but may have had a faint humming sound which came from it (my younger son did not comment on this, and only agreed! that it was extremely quiet). I began recording them immediately on my phone without them knowing so that I could replay it later. As they are telling me, my younger son sprinted back through the hallway to my baby daughter’s room (3 years old). Also on the north side of the house. When I yelled for him not to wake her up, he came back out and said he wanted to make sure she was still there in her bed because it had flown that way. Which I found heartwarming. I continued to ask them what it did and why was it here they thought? My older son said he didn't know, but that it was "pacifically, pacifically at our house and interested in us" ('specifically' he meant). They described again how this object became very active and moved down more into their field of view as if for them to watch. There is a clearing on the south side of the house that has no trees. Where they described seeing this object was not at all hindered by trees. It would have been completely clear of obstructions with the nights sky behind it. Using a lot of hand gestures they told me the disc started circling downward slowly on the south side of our house into the trees (the deck is on the east/south corner of the house). I asked them how low it was they thought and they adamantly said they could have thrown a rock at it and that it was very low. They then said in the same corkscrew fashion it went back up and directly over the top of our house, still d! isplaying the multitudes of lights and colors. They said it went across our house slowly and headed towards our neighbors house (northward toward the side of the house I was sleeping on). They said it then rose above the tree line and started flying away. They knew I was on that side of the house and ran in to come tell me. At my feet there are very large windows and my younger son insisted that I must have saw it. When I said I hadn't seen it they were shocked and disappointed. I asked them how long the ordeal took and my older son said at least 3 minutes. I asked them again if they thought it may have been a plane or some other sort of craft, and they both said it looked like something they had never seen ever, and my younger son insisted that he thought they were aliens and that he was very worried. My older son agreed and said he could not imagine it being from this planet, but that he was not scared just shaken. He told me how shocked he was that he would ever get the ! chance to see something like this in his life. Something that ! would ma ke him change his mind about UFOs and aliens existing. I told them that I believed them, and that I believe it to be likely that there are other beings in and around this planet and that perhaps these beings seized an opportunity to touch the minds of 2 young boys. They were very relieved that I believed them and insisted I message and tell their mom. They also asked to sleep with me because they were too scared to go into their rooms. This is also very odd behavior for them. As was it for them to both agree on every aspect, and be so worked up.
September 5, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Milton-Freewater, OR
Witness elects to provide no contact information. Possible advertising lights? PD
August 31, 2015 · 5:01 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
It was an unusually beautiful day with light beaming down between the clouds when I took a picture from Mount Tabor over to Portland and didn't notice until later that there was a green globe in one of the shots. It was a perfect sphere which came out well on my Galaxy S5 phone. It could only have been there for just a few seconds since I was snapping a lot of pictures in succession. I noticed there was another person that had seen a green fear (sic. Sphere) as well in Oregon to end at the exact same time one week earlier and I thought this was quite a coincidence.
August 29, 2015 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Beaverton, OR
At around 12:30 am Saturday morning (August 29th, 2015), my boyfriend and I were sitting on our patio, when we both noticed the sky looked peculiar. I mentioned how we couldn't see the moon at all and he and I experienced the first of three immense flashes of light. We both felt this light was some sort of a scan. It lit up evertything with a fullness and completion I have never seen before. After this flash, he and I looked into the sky above Cooper Mountain and saw a large glowing orange circle. We both initially assumed it was the moon. We continued examining the orange circle and realized it was the most perfectly round shape. We sat and discussed how peculiar the air felt and in an instant the orange circle was no longer visible. We waiting to see of it was cloud cover and it was clear what we saw vanished as quickly as it came. He and I felt quite odd. I went inside and looked at the clock. Two minutes had elapsed and it felt like an eternity. After researching orange circular ufo'S and other reports on huge flashes of lights, we returned outside with my cell phone. We never saw the orange circle again, but just below where it had been we saw a blue glowing light. One could say it resembled a star. Twinkling, gliterring and mesmerizing. To our eyes it appeared blue or silver and would twinkle in and out of visibility and clarity. At 12:48, we experienced another flash of all encompassing light. The blue twinkle started to appear red. It would alternate between green, blue and red. I recorded video on my Samsung Galaxy phone camera. My camera was focusing on this object, clearly focusing. Upon closer examination we discovered the following variety of shapes and colors: 1) Blue rectangle 2) Red cylindrical 3) 2 green speheres. My boyfriend and I repeatedly asked one another for validation. We saw precisely the same things. During our time simply gazing up at the object it moved slightly right to left, flittering it seemed, and from it we saw smaller balls of light flying off and we saw these smaller balls return to it and hover close to it and again fly off at a speed unfathomable to our minds. The last huge flash of light was around 1:30 am. The object in the sky was gone at 1:45 am. My boyfriend and I felt an electric energetic sensation well into the night, and I found it difficult to take my eyes off the sky.
August 25, 2015 · 4:38 AM · OVAL
Beaverton, OR
I was having a cigarette and saw several object that looked like satellites, but this particular one came across the sky differently. It pulsated every 5 seconds and 3 seconds in different colors. Amber and green then would go dark, then light up again. It changed course once. I tried to capture video and pictures, but I was only able to get one flash cycle in the video. It flew west to east altitude maybe 20-30k not sure. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 24, 2015 · 5:31 PM · SPHERE
Silverton, OR
Due to the smoke and pollution in the sky, the lighting was strange this afternoon. I stepped out on my deck, facing the west, to take a few photos of the sun rays coming through the clouds. Approximately an hour later, I looked at the photos that I had taken and saw a green sphere which moved up and to the north in the time between the first and second photos. The photos were taken one immediately after the other at 5:31 pm. I saw nothing in the sky at the time that I took the photos. Would like some insight about whether or not this type of object has been reported. My son made a report to you about a sighting in Hawaii a few years ago. We enjoyed interacting with you at that time and hope to be able to speak with you again. Thank you. Object is a lens flare, caused by photographing the Sun. PD
August 22, 2015 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Newport, OR
My experience took place on August 22nd, 2015, at about 2:00am in Newport, Oregon. My husband and I were sitting on the balcony of our fourth story hotel room, enjoying each other and the ocean. I saw what appeared to be a shooting star appear from the side of our hotel and said, "Look! A shooting star," so my husband saw it also. After a second, I realized it was white and disc shaped. It appeared to be smaller and a whole lot closer, maybe about the elevation a drone would have been at. It was angled downward and slightly towards the ocean as it slowly fell. We kept watching as it as it changed angles and speed, darting directly parallel to the ocean. As it continued to travel, it slowed again making a boomerang type movement, then darted up to the shore. It was nearly directly in front of my hotel room and approximately 3 feet above the ocean, it moved slowly back and forth over a few feet of length directly parallel to the shoreline. It appeared to fade in and out of vision a few times, then reappear a short distance ahead of where it was. It was as if it kept travelling the same speed and distance, but was fading in and out. Directly underneath, it appeared 3 beings with white faces that appeared to glow. They were very visible, even in the dark. After about a minute, the disc disappeared, but the beings remained, and they were directly aligned. From the fourth floor I could not judge size exactly. These beings had dark bodies, it was easy to see their movements. They would bend down to the sand, or sit down, then get back up, all at the same time. They stayed in formation, most times a line, and pretty soon they multiplied. Nothing flew in or out, they just appeared. 3 became 6, 6 became 8 and at final count there were about ten. My husband had decided to go out and see up close what was there. I watched as he made his way down to the ocean. The beings appeared to become smaller, my husband said he saw that as well. He said there was a strange energy as he got closer to them. What he saw were about 10 large birds that were not sea birds. He was able to walk up closely to them, but they did not startle. He then shooed them, and they flew off. When he did that, from the fourth floor, I was able to see that as soon as they moved they were flying. That means if anything would have flown into view, I would have seen it clearly. I am not looking for scrutiny or publicity, so I would really appreciate if this post could be kept confidential. This event lasted about 40 minutes in total, but i did not want to take my eyes off of them to go and get a camera. I figured they could have vanished any minute and I wanted to see as much as I could. I have additional details that I did not put in this report. Please contact my husband or me with further questions. Much Respect, ((names deleted))
August 20, 2015 · 2:16 PM · DIAMOND
Salem, OR
While driving East over the Center Street Bridge I looked up over the skyline of downtown and saw the craft in the sky. It was flat and square with silver and black. It was high enough up above the buildings that it was alone in the sky. At first I thought it was a small plane but it didn’t have wings. It was shaped more like a personal drone but upon closer inspection it would have had to be HUGE to be so far away. It was traveling too fast to be a plane or jet, at an angle that would be impossible. I watched it for a few seconds trying to figure out what it was, then I blinked and it was gone. It was too high up in the sky to go behind a building or a tree and if it had fallen, I would have seen it. This is my first sighting.
August 19, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Grants Pass, OR
This event accrued last night 8/19/2015, at approximately 2100. I was sitting in my hammock facing south. I happened to look at the sky toward the west when I noticed a white looking light moving west to southeast. I first thought it was just a satellite, but then I noticed it was slowing down and speeding up. It also began to flash red, blue, and white lights. It appeared to be around the size comparable to what a star would look like with the naked eye maybe a little bigger. It continued to move across the sky from west to southeast and then it stopped in the southeastern sky. When it stopped the flashing of the blue, red and white lights began to be more prominent. While it was stopped I grabbed my phone and began taking a video. The light stayed in the same spot for around 2 minutes. It then began to slowly move out of sight in the southeastern sky. As I watched the video over and over again last night pausing and looking and some of the still frames, it appeared to have a ban of light with darker spots above and below the lights.
August 19, 2015 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Lebanon, OR
Lebanon, OR 8:45 pm. My husband and I were out for a run. The sun was just going down and there was a little light left. I saw a bright light in the sky moving. I thought it was odd it was so bright even though it was still semi-light out and I didn’t see any other stars in the sky. I watched it for awhile and noticed it was moving fast, changed directions multiple times, hovered then flashed white to red 3x and once flashed bluish-green before turning to red completely. Then the light descended directly down behind the tree line (see video). A second light was spotted moving and changing directions but was lost behind the tree line. I saw a very similar sighting about a week ago (also reported on this site). The light was in approximately the same area of the sky as the light I reported last week and behaved similarly.
August 17, 2015 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Beaverton, OR
So, weird sighting twice now in the sky, want some opinions and to see if anyone else has seen anything similar. First sighting was by my mom, I wrote it off as a comet. This was last week sometime. Second sighting was just a few mins ago, and we both saw it. It's low enough in the atmosphere that I thought it was a plane. No blinking lights, plus the entire thing emitted a glow. It was traveling rather slowly, no trail, and it was witnessed for about one minute. It was a giant ball of light moving from west to east. At the end of the sighting it got to be very bright, then dimmed to red, and then faded out of sight completely. I've seen comets and shooting stars, logically I cannot connect those dots. It wasn't a commercial craft or drone, and it was silent. Any other guesses I'm not considering? Oh, also, it wasn't one of those Asian candle paper lamp thingies either. I've seen those released numerous times and they move all about, flicker, and glow and are nowhere as large as what this was. This was really bright, like the incoming lights of a plane, but traveling much more slowly, without noise, without blinking. I am stumped. Any guesses??
August 15, 2015 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Medford, OR
I live in a town that sits in the middle of a valley "Rogue Valley". As I was driving to work along a outskirt road that looks over the valley, on the opposite side of the valley I saw huge flames looking like they where approx. 50-75 feet high, and about 50 feet long, along the ridge line of the opposing valley wall. I watched this inferno looking/fire ball/flames, for about a minute while driving until I turned off the road and the tree line obstructed my view from the fire. I was extremely puzzled by what I saw, here in Oregon we had a few forest fires at that time around the area but none that could be seen from inside the rogue valleyfloor. I kept driving for a couple minutes and decided to make a u-turn, head back to try and see this again. Turning back onto the road "foothills rd." where I witnessed the flames, proceeding back the same way I came from, looking for the flames, which I can best describe as looking like a raging forest fire that was lighting up the night sky with an orange aura, like a fire does. It was completely gone with not a trace or evidence that anything out of the normal was there only a few minutes a ago. I parked my car, pulled off onto the side of the road where I believed I had the best vantage point when I witnessing the flames and got out, turned my car off and sat on the roof for 10 minutes hoping I could get a clue as to what I saw. Nothing. It had vanished. What I witnessed was enormous, and has baffled me if it was a forest fire, as raging of an inferno it looked like it was. 50-75 feet tall. Could of just disappeared in a matter of minutes? It was not a forest fire but something else.
August 15, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Eagle Point, OR
Me and my wife were sitting on our back porch, watching the meteor shower. And directly above us I noticed a very bright light slowly moving a crossed the sky. Brightest light in the sky and much larger then any star light. It was moving very slowly without making a sound. It was traveling from the North to the South. After a over minute of it just slowly moving in a straight line, we realized it wasn't a meteor or a plane we could explain. Then it slowly changed from a bright white light to a soft orange glow and seemed to get smaller and just disappeared right in front of our eyes.
August 15, 2015 · 1:03 AM · OVAL
Sprague River, OR
On the above date, I was doing some work for the local Post Office/Library in Sprague River, Oregon, setting up security cameras. On the north side of the building, I was looking for a spot to put one of the cameras, and looked up to see a bright ‘white oval object, shining in the sky. At first I thought it was a reflection off my sunglasses, but taking them off I noticed an object round and bright white in the southern direction about 75% off the horizon. It was not moving, no sound, and a light wind was blowing. I went to my truck and got out a 7x50 pair of binoculars to take a closer look. I was surprised to see a criss/cross line design on the bottom of the object, almost rounded shaped. Still the object was not moving. I got out my cell phone, which is a Samsung Stratosphere and took several photos. I later cropped them for a closer look at this object. (See Fig. 2 photo) I went into the building then, asked one of the employees to come out and witness what I was looking at (she wants to remain anonymous at this time). I pointed up at the object, then gave here my binoculars… her words; “Weird”! She confirmed what I had seen in the binoculars and that was a strange design on the bottom of the object. We stood there watching to see any movement from the object. She then had to go back in, and I had wiring to attach. It could not have been more than 5 minutes when I went back out to the location, the object was gone! That time had to be about 1:15 or 1:20 pm. Further investigation. I called NOAA in Medford, Oregon, on 16 Aug. 2015, and spoke with a meteorologist about the sighting. I then emailed him a photo of the object and he emailed me back; "I have no idea what it is. The nearest weather balloon launched near a fire that day was on the ground before 11:30am, so it wasn’t a weather balloon from the National Weather Service. Good luck!” So, the weather balloon theory is ruled out. On 17 Aug., 2015, I checked with Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to see if they had anything flying that day and timeframe. They had nothing flying that day per the public affairs office. Since the Klamath Falls Airport currently does not have commercial aircraft flying in and out of the Klamath basin, this rules out any object from that area. Both the USAF and NOAA mentioned the possibility of a ‘drone’. I have two small radio controlled drones and this was not a drone. There was a light wind that day from the south, maybe 5-7 mph and the object did not waiver or move. I also pulled up Google Sky Map on my cell phone for that date and time and stood at the same place where I took the photos... now Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and the Moon were in the vicinity of the Sun that day. All the planets including the Moon were south of the Sun. Venus to the SSW and the other planets to the SSE positions. This object was more NNE direction of all the planet locations. It is my opinion this was not any of the planets in the vicinity during that time as it was too far north of the Sun. (See Fig 1 photo) Compass reading of the object was 160 degrees south. Angle of elevation was 75% off the horizon. Long/lat 42.55512 N & 121.50386 W Temp: 81 degrees Ground elevation: 4171 feet Wind direction: Coming from south, 5-7mph. Altitude of object: Unknown. Shape: Round/Oval Color: White Size at arms length: About 1/6th of thumb nail. Sighting Evaluation: The Klamath Basin has its share of military aircraft from Kingsley Field, and is in a flight path for commercial aircraft also. (See Fig. 3 photo) This was none of these. Eliminating all the possibilities; weather balloon, drone, aircraft, planets, weather phenomena, natural phenomena, any other man-made object… This witness concludes it as ‘unknown’ at this time.
August 14, 2015 · 12:20 AM · FIREBALL
Astoria, OR
A bright orange flaming orb appeared in the sky flying silently across the water over the mouth of the Columbia river near Astoria Oregon. Then stopped and grew more intense in brightness and also appeared to grow in size for a few seconds before flashing a bright blue burst of what looked like electricity that lit up most of the night sky. Then it silently flew out of site but saw the same double flash of blue light two or three more times as it would light up clouds on the horizon every 5 minutes or so. Definitely not any possible aircraft lights or anything appearing man made whatsoever.