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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
June 5, 2015 · 5:15 AM · CHANGING
Gresham, OR
I was on my phone and then my friend came inside and then told us to hurry up and come outside, when we came outside we saw an object above the hot tub, and it looked like a drone but it made no noise, my cousin acted like he had a gun and pointed at it, and then started to hover over us for about what seemed like 5 minutes at least and then it changed to the color red like my friends shirt, and then went further and further up, before it fully disappeared it was half black and half red
May 29, 2015 · 8:09 PM · CIGAR
Salem, OR
Saw weird cylinder glowing thing far away thought it was her at first but took a video and when I REWATCHED it clearly moved backwards then forwards
May 24, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Aumsville, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, OR
About 45 minutes ago i opened the back door to light a cigarette and i did and i stepped out and I saw a plane coming from the south. My back door faces south. Its been so cloudy lately so i noticed the stars right away. I noted arcturus and then scanned to the west and noted jupiter. I need to say that i am overwhelmed again suddenly as i write this tears flood and i feel overwhelmed and i promise this is not a joke. as soon as i noted jupiter i look just to the left and up of it because two orangish very distant and even seemed like stars just started to dance and rotate almost orbit each other rapidly i stepped back in the house and said ((wife's name deleted)) but she didnt come out. i looked back and they horizontally and rapidly sped away in opposite direction. i could have sworn they just stopped and turned into stars you now what i mean? did they dissapear just in front of that star? i just didnt know. I have to say that i have experienced anxiety and depression in t! he past and even recently but this type of anxiety and feeling is way new. Just thinking of it and imagining it is making me feel so tense. my eyes get wide and tears just pour out litterally. im not crying though... It was just so amazing. also, i yelled for my wife ((name deleted)) because i think it was end of march when we were both sitting out here and bothed wathed what we believed to be a tea lantern floating slowly up and both said how pretty it was. and then it just stopped. and it floated. and it never burnt out. and i can tell you now 1000 percent honest that it turned into or burnt out perfectly in front of arcturus. so. i stepped out immediately lit cigarette. looked up immediately saw plane traveling normal height blinking lights red and white obvious plane. then notice acrturus pretty uch south above it look west immediately see them next to jupiter going crazy around each other. from me stepping out to watching them spinning around time lapsed about 10- 20 seconds. stepped in ((wife's name deleted)) stepped right out immediately saw them travel opp! osite di rections horizontally. time lapsed now maybe 30 seconds. i stare. nothing. i look south perfect horizontal white non blinking perfect steady moving like a satelite and dissapears. ive seen many satelites. i just wouldnt call it one. arcturus is my favorite star and jupiter my favorite to look at through telescope. i not an alien wacko. END.... sorry so sloppy. just had to type while so fresh in my mind. Thank you for your time. Sinerely, ((name deleted)). I live in Springfield Oregon, im a dishwasher in a restaurant. Im married and have a 12 year old daughter. i own my home i dont rent. I love nature and the outdoors. I am passionate about many things such as human rights animal rights and the environment. I grew up in yuma arizona on the border of mexico and had a sighting similar to phoenix light there when a kid but never thought about it again until now. so yea im just a normal guy practicing compassian and tollerance in todays speedy world and raising a little girl so th! at hopefully she just leaves this earth better then she found it as well. i have to work in the morning and im usually in bed by now. This is tough it realy is. I woke my wife up shortly after because i just had to tell her. i just felt crazy absolutely crazy telling her. She believes me though because of what we saw together not that long ago. I ahve to say that after seeing it all and before i woke up katy i just remember thinking my eyes are clear and fine. I wasnt groggy. i didnt get teray from a yawn or anything....my brain says no way man but my eyes saw that. what was that? and lastly. the first thing i did was look on youtube and there was a vid posted in texas 20 minutes prior of something similar. i posted a omment. it was a shaky vid though. I dont own a vid cam. i dont use a cell phone. I would take a pollygraph. i just want to know the truth. what the hell did i see tonight??
May 17, 2015 · 10:18 PM · DIAMOND
Pendleton, OR
I am a truck driver. I was heading westbound on interstate 84. Around 22:00 as I rounded a curve close to the 228 milepost I saw a very bright white light in the sky about 35 degrees in the sky. I was on the phone with my wife when I first spotted the light. I pulled off into the west bound truck scale and proceeded to look at the light through 7x50 binoculars. I couldn't make out much detail as I was unable to hold the binoculars steady. To the naked eye it appeared to be diamond shape. I took a video of it with my phone and in the video it appears circular. At one point after I stopped taping I did see and airplane with its navigation lights flashing fly almost in straight line of sight with object.
May 16, 2015 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Cornelius, OR
UFO reporting center, Last Friday or Saturday (5-15/16-15) I think it was Saturday around 9:50pm, my wife called me outside to look at the southern sky. Hanging suspended below the clouds were 3 orange orbs, a beautiful shade of orange. These orbs hung suspended without moving and no noise. Over several minutes each of these orbs, which were formed a roughly triangle formation, faded then blinked out. As they faded they flattened out. Before the last one faded out two more appeared the western sky and slowly rose until they were in the same area as the first 3. As they arrived the last of the first 3 faded out. These two hung suspended, just as the first 3 did, with no noise until they flattened out and faded out. We live in Western Oregon. Did anyone else report these orbs? My wife called emergency dispatch and later a deputy called and talked with me about this but he wasn’t bright enough to spell ufo so I don’t think he believed me. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
May 16, 2015 · 10:15 AM · CIRCLE
Baker City, OR
8-10 round orange lights. 3 in V formation.
May 15, 2015 · 1:18 AM · OTHER
Portland, OR
I was sitting on the fire exit at my building outside on the eight floor and staring at the stars while practicing breathing techniques. I saw two stars that were close together, kind of similar colors, and I admired their beauty. Then, I noticed one was kind of moving away from the other... Which stars don't do... So I kind of laughed at myself for mistaking something for a star and continued my breathing techniques. So I started wondering what it could be.. Maybe a satellite? As I continued to ponder the that, I noticed it was flying towards my apartment building. I was confused. It seemed to be flying lower now... And it was a grayish ship with a big white light and a tiny red one. I remember it had a pointy cockpit looking thing? It was kind of in the shape of a bird with a box for a body and without wings. It had a long neck and then the head, which I thought was probably the cockpit. I tried taking a video but my memory is full from all the spotify I download. 😣😄 anyways, I was really sure what I was seeing and wanted to record information that I could review later. So I tried taking pictures. Nothing showed up. I saw for a total of about 10-15 minutes total. I was staring at it when I thought it was a star, because all I could see was the bright light and it was low on the horizon near a bright star (from my perspective). Then it moved I towards me and flew over my building. It kept going. I tried calling my mom to run to the front of te apartment facing the way in which the ship flew but she was in the elevator at the time coming in from smoking a cigarette and was not able to see it. When I went to look out our bay window but nothing was flying. I believe in UFOs and believe they can connect us through astral projection(in which case a ship would be unnecessary), but I am a scientist at mind and need more evidence to validate my personal experience. I hope others report seeing at around 5/15/15 1:20am. It was a weird shape.. And it didn't make a sound. The cars were louder so I doubt it could have been a plane and definitely not a helicopter, which given how low it was over the Park Blocks of downtown Portland would have more sense! It was a UFO 😑
May 15, 2015 · 1:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
Intermittent flashing lights lighting up the sky. No sounds or reported lightning activity. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 8, 2015 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Prineville, OR
My cousin and I were out side looking at the stars and he saw a red circle object in the sky. We watched it for about two minutes and then we finally went to get our family, they came out side and looked at it for about three more minutes. After we all had looked at it there of our family members went inside which left my aunt cousin and me out side. All of a sudden, I looked at it and it diaper slowly. I said, "And it's gone." My aunt never saw it disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 1, 2015 · 1:01 PM · CIRCLE
Portland, OR
While exiting a store in Milwaukie, Oregon, I looked up and saw what I thought to be chemtrails. I took 5 photos holding my Samsung Galaxy 5 pointing straight up overhead. I was unable to see much as it was directly into the sun. I then got into my vehicle and drove approximately 40 feet. Took a few more photos. Went home. Reviewed photos. Found unusual round white ball cloud textured object in 5 photos taken prior to entering my car. It appears to be in different locations in the photos and in the last photo the object had changed to a light green color. It also had 5 little lights on or in the object. I had no knowledge of anything but jets and con or chemtrails when I took the photos.
April 30, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
Saw what looked like a star moving slowly in the sky for a very short time then faded into the distance. This was in SE Portland in the South Tabor neighborhood.
April 28, 2015 · 9:20 PM · FLASH
Culver, OR
A buddy and I were driving home from Madras, south on US highway 97 when I (the passenger) saw a giant, bright gold/yellow colored orb flash very low in the sky/horizon. This light flashed at exact intervals moving north, back toward Madras, about 10 miles away--this all happened in roughly 10 seconds. My friend also saw the light flash a few times when he looked through the rear window of our truck, at its furthest point until it wasn't able to be seen. I have never seen anything like this and have absolutely no explanation what it could have been in this rural area of high desert farmland--I have driven this stretch of highway hundreds of times in early evening, during the night. Again, this light was massive in size, like somebody turned on a giant floodlight, each flash equidistant and at exact intervals. The amount of distance it moved in such a short span of time is unexplainable.
April 27, 2015 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Beaverton, OR
Bright orb in sky just south of Beaverton. Not moving fast, but rotating giving off rainbow lighting. Almost looks like a moon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 26, 2015 · 11:07 PM · CIRCLE
Eugene, OR
At 11:07pm, I and one other person saw a bright glowing circle light yellow with a red center in the northwest sky in west Eugene. It got brighter and then would dim repeatedly. We checked online to see if it was a large star or perhaps a planet. It disappeared about twenty minutes after we noticed it.
April 25, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
McMinnville, OR
We were driving north on Hill Road, just west of McMinnville, Ore., just after sunset. We noticed a strange sphere type object due east of us. It was oscillatiing red and orange, and looked to be just a couple of hundred feet over the rooftops. At that time it looked as bright as Venus but a little larger and was pulsing red to orange. We stopped the car and observed it as it headed due east away and up at a high rate of speed for 10 or so seconds. It got dimmer and dimmer, and then it vanished. The total time we observed the object was about 5 minutes. There was no noticeable noise, but we were pretty excited, the truck was running and we were talking all at once. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 23, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Corvallis, OR
I would like to report two possible sightings, both incidences were seen at the Jackson Frazier Wetlands in Corvallis, Oregon. On April 21, 2015, a friend and I were sitting inside the wetlands, when we both noticed a large bright light moving through the tops of the trees. At first we thought it was a car on the hill behind it. But as the light started shifting positions entirely too fast to have been a car driving on the hillside. It also seemed to increase and decrease its intensity and size of the light. It lasted for about five minutes the just disappeared. On April 24, 2015, I was sitting on top of my car watching for the meteor shower just outside the Wetlands, facing its entrance. At about 12:00 am I noticed that one of the stars I was looking at just above the tree tops had started to rapidly moving up then down and side to side. The way it moved can be compared to that of how humming birds fly. I watched as it moved quickly shifted its position in the sky from left to right and up and down. I watched as it darted behind a thick patch of clouds, then it shifted up and over to the front cloud. This lasted for maybe ten or so minutes. Now, there was a second light that appeared a little later but it was low to the ground and behind thick brush so I was not able to determine if this light I was seeing could be explained by something else, like people, therefore I will not bother with the details.
April 22, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Seaside, OR
Sitting outside hotel room, when I saw 1 orange light in the sky hovering. Another orange light seemed to have came up from behind the buildings. It went up in the sky and hovered with the other one. It seems that the first light was waiting for the second light. The lights also seemed to dim and get brighter but in no certain pattern. When the 2nd light met up with the 1st light, they went straight up and faded into the clouds. The sky this night was partly cloudy, but they went into the clouds. Earlier this day we also noticed jets flying in odd patterns which made me instantly question it. They were making circles in the sky, 3 different contrails from commercial jets.
April 18, 2015 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Talent, OR
On this relatively clear evening I viewed a steady bright light, like the evening 'star' Venus, about the size of Venus, white in color, in the Eastern sky to the right and below the star Arcturus, It was noticibly brighter than any other stars in the sky, and appeared to be at a great distance from me. It was moving rapidly to the East and upward. I used the star Arcturs to judge the object's movement up and away from me. As it moved, the light grew smaller and smaller and just before disappearing appeared to change to a red color. There was no sound associated with it.
April 18, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Eugene, OR
I saw on 4-18-15 about 9:00pm, 3 very large red balls flying in a row about 1000 ft high, approx 500 ft apart from north to south west of Eugene. The light went out in the middle one, I could see through binoculars that it was a black sphere of some kind as there was still a little light glow from sundown. They were moving very fast, NO NOISE at all. They disappeared just a little to the south west of Eugene, Oregon. I have 20 hours training in a helicopter. I've never reported before' I'm not a nut case!!!
April 17, 2015 · 12:40 PM · CHANGING
Baker City/La Grande (between), OR
Driving N between Baker City OR and La Grande on hwy 84. Cloudless sky with the exception of one small dark grey cloud. Cloud turned white and morphed into a structure with visible points of light. It banked to its right, turned into a white cloud, then darkened to grey and disappeared. About 5-15 seconds later it appeared again, but closer as a dark grey cloud, turned white and morphed into a structure with visible points of light, looked like a chevron or winged shape with the lights on the leading edge. It banked to the right again, it then turned into a white cloud, then darkened to grey and disappeared from sight. It appeared again, closer as the dark grey cloud performing the same change; grey, white, points of light. It banked to the left this time and disappeared. Did not show up again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2015 · 9:39 PM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
Out using telescope with daughter and saw a large silver orb moving through space with a smaller flashing cigar shape following miles behind it. They were perfectly distance apart, the one in the front was big and glowing steadily and the one following was smaller, cigar shaped and slowly flashing brighter to dimmer. Watched them until they disappeared into the darkness. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Umpqua Nat. Forest (Idleyld Park), OR
Two balls of non-directional, full spectrum, bright light in perfect formation moving swiftly up the river valley, before veering up and shooting off into space near Mt Theilsen. A chase plane was observed about one minute later. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2015 · 2:30 AM · DISK
Beaverton, OR
I was sleeping over at my friends house, and we were going to try to pull an all nighter. We were all just sitting on the beds talking to each other. My friends bedroom was really big, and had a huge widow about half the size of her wall. That night we kept the curtains open. Just about everybody had Fallen asleep, except for me and another one of my friends. We were just sitting there, and I glanced out of the window. I remember seeing something flying around out there. At first I thought it was an airplane because of the light flashing on it. But it couldn’t have been because it wasn’t flying in a strait line like a airplane normally would. It would fly in a zig zaggy motion and loop around. I just kept looking at it, trying to focuse on it. I told my friend what I was seeing and told her to check it out. When she looked out the window she saw it too. We weren’t sure what to do, so we just kept watching it. After maby a minute or two of watching it, it quickly flew away. The shape of the ufo was a disk shape, and we couldn’t really make out a color besides silver because it was dark out. One of the observers has always been interested in space and what it out there. They have never seen a ufo before, and wasn’t really into it before the sighting of it. The other observer moved here from japan, they didn’t even believe in paranormal activity until now. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD