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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
July 3, 2015 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Eugene, OR
I thought it was a satellite, at first, but then I noticed it was moving way too fast. More like the speed of an airplane, but it was flying low enough I should of heard its engine if it was an airplane. It was also flying in a zig zag pattern. At first the color of the object looked yellow, then as it went by blue or red, I can't remember. It could of been an airplane, but I've never seen one move like that ever, and it was quite.
July 2, 2015 · 11:56 PM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
I just watched a UFO fly by our house. I did not pay too much attention to it when I first noticed it. I thought it was a slow moving private plane with a landing light on. As it passed by I could see that it did not have typical navigation lights and it did not make a sound. The white light I saw was on the right side and I could make out what looked to be three barely visible white lights on the left side. I could not make out the shape of the craft, but it appeared to be dark in color. Its heading was North to South, then when it was South of my position, it turned to the Southwest. I would guess the altitude at about 1000 feet. And fairly close, maybe 500 feet away, if you drew a line on the ground to where it passed by. This case was first posted for July 3rd, but the correct date appears to be July 2nd. We apologize for the error. PD
July 2, 2015 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Eagle Point, OR
This happened over Table Rock in Southern Oregon. There were two lights, one brighter than the other. They were moving side to side and it seemed as if one was moving closer and the other moving away, then as if a switch was turned off they both disappeared. Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but its been really hot this year.
June 30, 2015 · 11:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Sutherlin, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 30, 2015 · 10:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Portland (far east; Corbett), OR
We suspect that the witness may have been looking at Venus and Jupiter in the northwest sky. PD
June 30, 2015 · 9:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Eugene, OR
I live in Eugene, Oregon. I live with my grown son in a trailer park, and I am very religious. On June 30th, 2015, a little after 9pm, I was standing outside my trailer to see the bright "star" of Jupiter and Venus together, which many have called the star of Bethlehem. I waved for my neighbor to come off her porch and see. We looked together for a minute toward the west, talking about how it has not happened in 2000 years since Jesus was born. I turned to go back to my home and she said, "What is that?" I looked above my trailer in the sky and saw what seemed to be an invisible rectangular object with four sets of blue and red paired lights beneath it. The bright blue and red lights were paired together in four places like where the wheels would be under a car. We did not see the rectangle object, only the lights. These were large lights, not tiny pin-sized lights. They did not blink, only glowed cobalt blue and bright red very vividly. At first it was just hovering, then it went up, away south, around and back again and that is when I realized it was not a helicopter. Nothing could travel or turn that fast that I have ever seen before. We watched until it went up and disappeared into the east. I had a strange feeling while watching that it had been looking at the stars as well, knew we were looking at it, and was trying to get away from us. I don't know if that is true, it is just a sense I had. I did not feel afraid, just calm and curious. I brushed it off, since someone I later spoke with said it was probably a drone. But after thinking about it, this was too big to be a drone, and much too fast.
June 27, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Seaside, OR
Looked like 2 red fireballs 1 fell the other hovered before the lite went off but through binoculars could still see a dark for desend gradually
June 24, 2015 · 4:50 PM · OTHER
Banks, OR
This craft was in the sky moving South East to east. It wasn't shaped like any I've seen before. It was rounded on the top but flat on the bottom and slightly elongated. The movement was fluid, like it morphed forward similar to how a worm moves, but the body rolled forward like liquid rather than being propelled along. It moved faster than a helicopter at the height about where a small plane would fly. I spotted it because I was looking at all the chemtrails they were spraying in the sky that day. The object moved right to left, there was no sound and no wings on the object. This object seemed to be like a short bus rather than a saucer. There was no lights on the object but the sun was reflecting off it. (This is the second UFO I've spotted in this same section of sky. The first was different looking than this one though and I will file a separate report for that sighting.) I ran in to grab a camera but got back just in time to see the object vanish behind a cloud. The cloud it went behind was wispy, not the sort of cloud you would think could hide a UFO.
June 23, 2015 · 9:54 PM · RECTANGLE
Myrtle Point, OR
At approximately 9:54 PM on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, I observed an object traveling very slowly in a south southeasterly direction. The object when initially sighted was almost due west of my location in Myrtle Point, Oregon, at an approximate distance of less than 2 miles. Some high cirrus clouds were present and the sky was not totally dark yet. The object initially had the apparent size of about 1.5 moon diameters. Object was at about 15-20 degrees elevation observed from my location, and very slowly traveled south southeast. Best guess at altitude, less than 5000 feet. The object gave the impression of being roughly rectangular shaped, with the long dimensions oriented north-south. When observed early on with binoculars, the object gave a hint of a grey to charcoal black color. Multiple orange lights were observed at various points along the object and a bright red flashing light, perhaps at the rear or underside, was visible the entire duration of sighting. The orange lights appeared to change position/orientation or turn on/off as the object traveled, giving the impression that it may have rotated or turned left/right on a few occasions but always maintaining its south southeasterly course. The red flashing light did not appear to be perfectly rhythmatic as it seemed to occasionally vary the length of duration on or off. The object spent about 20 minutes moving south and slightly east towards the Siskiyou National Forest area until blocked by trees and my local terrain.
June 23, 2015 · 12:22 AM · LIGHT
La Grande, OR
As I was traveling eastbound on I-84, just west of La Grande, Oregon, I observed an intense white light traveling slowly down the Grande Ronde River canyon in a NNW direction toward Pendleton, Oregon. It was approximately 1000-1500ft AGL. I was able to determine that it was airborne, and not on the ridgeline above the canyon. As it came towards me, I was watching it intently and I thought it was actually a series of 4 closely spaced intense white lights, as if it were mounted on a light bar, but as it approached, the beam became so intense, while directed toward the ground, that I reflexively looked away to shield my eyes from the light. As i looked back up, it passed above the roofline of the cab and I lost sight of it. If this was an aircraft, it was operating in violation of FAA regulations, as it had no navigation lights visible. I would estimate the speed to be comparable to a helicopter, which it may well have been. The Army reserve has a helicopter unit in Pendleton, I believe, but they are required to fly with nav. lights on at night. It's possible it was a utility company helicopter working on a powerline or something, but why no navigation lights? All aircraft are required, under the Federal Aviation Regulations, to have red and green navigation lights, and they may have other red or white lights, either solid or intermittent. PD
June 20, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
They were pulsating orange and gold and emited a very odd vibration that I could feel in my bones. All of a sudden a speeding helicopter flew above my head in their direction. That is when my housemate came out and became witness too. As the helicopter circled the craft you could clearly see how much larger and brighter they were in comparison the to copter. We watched for about 23 minutes, and then the craft slowly began to move behind a treeline, until we could see them no more. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 19, 2015 · 7:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Albany, OR
I drive a wood chip truck and travel to various mills and wood processing facilities in the Willamette Valley and southern Washington. Friday, 6-19-2015, at approx. 19:45, I witnessed two military Blackhawk helicopters flying near Halsey, OR, at around 100 feet elevation, and thought it was a little odd, but dismissed it. I then proceeded to Camas, Washington, and at approx. 22:45, while traveling eastbound on Hwy 14 in Washington, saw 4 or 5 Blackhawk helicopters hovering over the Columbia River, spaced around a half mile apart or so. I unloaded at the mill then headed west on 14, and turned south on to the 205 freeway and then south on I-5, and continued south heading back to Eugene, OR. As I came to the north side of Salem, OR, there was another chopper hovering maybe a hundred feet above the freeway, then another one at about the same elevation on the south side of Salem. I continued south and took exit 244 just north of Albany, OR, and pulled over to the shoulder of the on ramp to have a smoke. I was outside of the truck and noticed a craft coming from the northwest and it flew directly over me and continued on in a southeast direction. The craft was flying at maybe 1,500 hundred feet, and incredibly slow, and was completely silent. The craft was shaped basically like a giant ruler, and had large square shaped lights on each side. For comparison if you look at a ruler and go from the end of the ruler to 2 inches on one side and from the end of the ruler to 10 inches that would be comparable to the size of the lights, and From how far the lights were separated it had to be the size of two 747’s sitting wing tip to wing tip.. The lights were white in color and didn’t flash or change at all and as it flew past me there was another small white light flashing from one side of the craft to the other. There were no nose or tail lights and really appeared to be a giant skinny rectangle. I got back in the truck and continued south on I-5, and lost sight of the object over the hills to the southwest, and as I approached Albany, OR, there was another chopper hovering just off to the west of the freeway.
June 17, 2015 · 1:23 PM · UNKNOWN
Depoe Bay, OR
A loud boom was heard, and then in the sky there was a jet trail that went straight an then looked like the "UFO" made a fast turn around the trail looked like it disappeared. Strangely, all the birds started flying away from the town. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 17, 2015 · 2:55 AM · CIRCLE
Florence, OR
While driving my asthmatic wife at 0255 hours, during an asthmatic episode, to open up her lungs. Myself...a USAF veteran, with 4 1/2 years of flight line experience, working night shift, viewing normal flight patterns, witnessed an amber pulsating ball floating in a field to the right of the road we were traveling. The circular light was eye level with me driving my vehicle. The field was around 6 feet lower than the road I was traveling in a valley surrounded my forest. The ball was glowing an amber color but pulsating light with small light glowing beneath it. The light looked like a dim flame or my best description of it is it looked as if it was a reflection of light off a lake but in the air. To me it looked more like some kind of energy source over a physical object because of the unusual light it was emitting. After questioning what we witnessed we turned around and confirmed our sighting. Because of my wife's fragile condition, I was unable to park and investigate, and document, the sighting.
June 16, 2015 · 8:05 AM · CIRCLE
Banks, OR
This is the first UFO I ever saw, HOWEVER, I didn't see THIS one with my naked eye. I spotted it later in the pictures I had taken of some chemtrails in the sky. This craft was in the south-eastern sky. I didn't hear anything at the time. Since I can't tell you anymore than what is in the pictures, I will send them along. I have WAY less faith in this sighting than my second sighting in the same section of sky 8 days later (report already filed but I don't have pictures of that craft). Lens flare, caused by pointing a camera at a bright source of light. PD
June 14, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Winston, OR
I grabbed my binoculars to get a better look at it. I continued to watch it thru my binoculars, as it traveled across the sky. It was a very bright glowing white light traveling from east to west at a high rate of speed. It maintained it's speed, elevation, and direction. It appeared to be traveling at a lower elevation then what commercial aircraft travel at. About 1 minute after it passed overhead, it changed into an orange color and then faded out. I have been in the Air Force for 18 years. I have spent a lot of years working on aircraft. I have been around many different aircraft, from cargo to fighters. I can distinguish between an airplane, satellite, and meteor. It was none of these. (( Overflight of ISS. http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=43.1223&lng=-123.4126&loc=Winston&alt=169&tz=PST PD))
June 14, 2015 · 12:30 PM · DISK
North Plains, OR
My roommate ran in the house and told me to come outside quick and look at this object in the sky. I came running out and I seen a disk shaped object, looking grey, it was slowly moving crossed the horizon, much slower then a plane would move. It did not have any lights on it or any other noticeable features. I could not see any wings or propulsion device. It kept moving until it went behind some tree's and I could not see it any more. My girlfriend and two other roommates saw this and one of my roommates got a picture of it. My son also saw it.
June 14, 2015 · 12:30 PM · DISK
North Plains, OR
This last Saturday (sic. Sunday), my roommate started frantically yelling for me to come outside and look up in the sky.. That's when I saw the the flying saucer.. It had moved into the valley right behind my house! I called for the others to come out and we all watched as it hovered for a while, wobbling on it's axis.. Then it banked hard at 40 deg's and dropped altitude… If I had to guess, I'd say it reduced it's altitude from 150 ft to maybe 65 ft before I lost it behind some tall tree's.. We only got 1 pic of it before the camera decided to turn off.. We live in a very rural area on Pumpkin Ridge, in North Plains.. It looked like it was heading up the Ridge so I jumped in the car and decided to try to chase it down.. but I never got it back into view..
June 13, 2015 · 10:30 PM
Grants Pass, OR
If the objects were not stars, we do not know what they could have been. PD
June 10, 2015 · 2:52 AM · FLASH
Salem, OR
I saw a bright flash to the North. I called my son out to see it and within a minute we saw another bright flash, it had moved quite far in that time, and was seen in the northeast sky. Within 10 seconds another bright flash which would make one to believe it was heading in a northeast direction, again, a great distance from the previous flash. After that we didn't see it anymore. These are large flashes of light and I have been seeing them for a number of years now and I have never seen anyone reporting in them. The bright flash does not always stay "on course", I've seen many nights that it wifi start in the north, appear next to the east, then back to the northwest. Also, based on the timing of the flashes, this light is moving much faster than an airplane or satellite, or the space station. In fact, I've seen the light on nights when the space station is not flying over our state. I marked 1-3 crafts due to the fact of distance moved between each flash. Maybe I'm not seeing one flash flashing 3 times but maybe 3 flashes slashing 1time. (Does that make sense?"
June 7, 2015 · 5:28 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
Three bright shiny objects in the sky, I spotted them nearly directly overhead at what seemed quite a distance, two objects were closer to each other than third. As the cluster moved southwest, it felt like they got closer, eventually I was able to see a tether between the three that seemed to keep them in a colinear formation. While mylar balloons is the most likely explanation, they didn't seem to be as flighty as I would expect in this wind. The objects also felt like larger objects further away than mylar balloons would have been.
June 6, 2015 · 12:06 AM · OTHER
Corvallis/Newport (between), OR
We eventually hit a small convenient store, where we could pull over and smoke a cigarette. We talked and decided that we missed a turn to go back to Redmond, Oregon. So we went back towards Newport and wasted time and gas going that direction, and getting to Newport, we stopped at a gas station, where I filled up on gas and went to the atm. Afterwards we smoked another cigarette off to the side of the gas station and witnessed something in the sky. My cousin pointed it out before anyone we looked and I wasn't very impressed, considering I didn't feel like I needed to be at the time, for the fact that 3 people had been witnessing it besides me. It looked like a lantern, floating in the sky high out above the ocean, heading towards us. It was flickering and looked like the wind was trying to blow it out, rather like a signal flare, but it went out in a way it couldn't have been one. We drove into the woods towards Corvallis, Oregon. Upon leaving Newport, my fiancé asked what the time was, and I answered with "12:01 like midnight." My cousin and I started to talk about mythological creatures, as well as urban legends, like zombies, and other things. I don't remember talking about stuff towards the point where we hit a small power station. The only thing I remember is a house between there, and Corvallis. The last thing I saw was a sign that said “12:21 Corvallis,” and I got a chill because it is impossible to travel to from Newport to Corvallis in 20 minutes. A time lapse happened. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and she seemed to us to be sincere in her description of the alleged events. PD
June 5, 2015 · 5:20 AM · CHANGING
Gresham, OR
Source of report describes himself as a high school student. He has stated that he will send a link to his video, which is posted to YouTube. PD
June 5, 2015 · 5:19 AM · CHANGING
Gresham, OR
Walked out front door saw there was what I thought a Hugh ((sic. Huge)) bird til I looked it was black v shapes object so I ran inside to get 2 people to look so I knew I wasnt crazy it start go up in attitude then it started changing like a worm unfolding then into a infinity sign is what I thought and then one of the person's with me was acting like he was shooting at it with his hand I slapped it told him no and then it started coming and hooking over us and turning red like my shirt I am wearing then it changed into what looked like what a transformer all crumpled up in a pile and disappears what's weird usually the air planes go over us all day long but before this object disappears I noticed there was a planes flying by but instead of over us went in L shape and around We have requested a copy of the alleged photo and video, but they have not arrived, as of 06/07/2015. PD