The catalog
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
April 15, 2015 · 9:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
2 flickering red/orange lights traveling at equidistant speed to the southeast. no sound detected, no telltale helicopter or airplane lights. too high up to be drones, also too well controlled. no sound detected.
April 12, 2015 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Milwaukie, OR
A very bright, extremely large orange ball of light seen up in the sky which the edges of the circle seemed to be flickering.
April 11, 2015 · 9:08 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
Saw six silent, slow moving red fireballs taking off. They moved slowly north east across the river. They progressively got higher and higher. They went behind a cloud and disappeared. This was a personal third sighting since June of 2012.
April 8, 2015 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Eugene, OR
At abou 0300, I was finishing my security patrol. As I looked up I saw 2 crafts come in from the west andturn east. One would jump ahead of another and stop. So the second craft could catch up. They are orb shaped and redish orange looks like fireballs.
April 4, 2015 · 10:58 AM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
Enjoying firepit in back yard when my brother in law noticed a large( compaired to stars, small if compaired to moon.) bright red light. We watched it change direction several times, the lights flickered a bit, and it seemed to slowly fade out as if flying to space.
March 31, 2015 · 9:40 PM · DISK
Bend, OR
Eventually dropped out of sight wasn't seen again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 30, 2015 · 9:01 PM · SPHERE
Oregon City, OR
Black sphere shaped flying object with blue light coming out of the center.
March 29, 2015 · 9:45 PM · CHANGING
Brownsville, OR
My husband and i were lying in bed looking out the window from our home thay sits 800 ft in elevation. We saw what we originally believed to be a very big bright star. We stared at this, bright orangish yellow object that blinked colors of red, yellow and orange, for atleast an hour. It eventually was out of view but hovered and moved in a wobble type pattern for about 30 minutes until eventually only the brigjtness and lights could be detected seeming to move towards I5.
March 29, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
March 27, 2015 · 10:00 AM · OTHER
Pendleton, OR
Object appeared stationary in sky upon looking eastward; the Sun glinting on object highlighted its presence. We turned away to get binoculars and object disappeared then reappeared briefly. After 5 minutes or so object reappeared briefly in location left of original location only to disappear in wispy, high clouds that either obscured completely or object disappeared finally.
March 26, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
Three pulsating fireballs. Two of them went out of our viewing range, the third continued to hover around, almost dance about, with no direct path, sometimes came to a dead stop. Finally, it faded until it disappeared completely.
March 23, 2015 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
West Linn, OR
Wife and I were laying in bed approx 9:15 last night. Heard a sudden very loud "whirring" noise like that of spinning turbines directly above our house. We do live within range of the flight path of Canby airport and frequently hear airplanes and helicopters in the distance. This was unlike any sound my wife and I have ever heard the pitch and rhythm (if you will) was very different and very loud. It started as a higher pitched whine and settled in to a low rumble keeping the same wierd rhythm then went silent. After a couple minutes it started up again (again, directly overhead.)with the sound going in reverse of the way it started and then after reaching a higher pitched whine, dead silence. We looked at each other and neither wanted to say what "that" noise just sounded like. My wife swears it sounded like a horizontal spin. I couldnt tell the difference I was more amazed by the pitch of the sound. Also noticed that the outside lights! I can see from my bedroom seem to have been off during the incident. Assumed I had forgotten to turn them on before turning in. Woke up this morning, they were all on. Found this website this morning never been on, never posted before. Heard planes in the sky approx 10 min later. We both agreed that wasnt even close to the sound we heard. Neither of us wanted to go outside to investigate during or after. Feels like this is so wild most people (myself included) would dismiss this story coming from anyone else as crazy and un-credible. Which is why Im posting anonomysly.
March 22, 2015 · 10:23 PM · CIGAR
Mulino, OR
I was on Central Point Road around Mulino, Oregon, 2 miles from home. I was driving, and it was visible for only 2-3 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 21, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Salem, OR
I went to the top of a street 1313 Morningside Dr SE, Salem, OR, 97302, and as I turned right onto a short drive called 13th Street SE going towards Hillendale, I pulled over to observe an orange illuminated orb about 1/2 - mile in slow movement, over the trees coming from the west to east in a straight line. It was incredibly close. Then it took a right angle turn going south just about in front of me and began to get dimmer and dimmer with the glow turning more into embers or slight flares and then I could see its outline continuing southward and upward but without light of any kind, just fading into the night sky, but could see the outline for many seconds, without the orange, and the outline did not appear to be round, like the orb was. Then this exact thing happened again, and again, and again, up to 10 times. The 3rd one seemed to try to catch up to the 2 in front and sped up a bit, it also seemed larger, and it slightly veered further straight before it took its right angle turn. Each one had the basic same protocols. I could not see where they came from because they would come over a tree top to the west of this small tiny street about the size of 3 houses. In all it was 7 minutes. I waited about 10 minutes to see if any more came, and none did. One seemed to stop a short while, or slowed way down before it banked right. I am not technical, I have an old fashioned cell, and I don't know how to take pics. Now I should learn. And did not have your ph # with me, but now I will.
March 18, 2015 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Sheridan, OR
Vapor trail rising vertically like a rocket, then leveled off at a very high altitude. This appears to be a jet aircraft. As it proceeded South there was another aircraft following close which was not producing a vapor trail.
March 18, 2015 · 7:22 PM · TRIANGLE
Athena, OR
The triangle object was moving away from us going straight west.the upper object form was hard to see but then disappeared. The triangler object was visable for 15 mins after the upper object was gone. Others driving west on had to see it. Possible over Hermisto, Oregon, or further west. We watched it until the sun set and its distance made it fade away.
March 13, 2015 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Astoria, OR
Glowing red object. Looked like several lights to naked eye. Photo weird.
March 9, 2015 · 8:35 PM · OTHER
Florence, OR
March 11, 2015 2035 pm Florence, Or 97439 We had just arrived home and were getting out of the vehicle when we spotted an object overhead. It was 40 degrees overhead moving on a south to north steady path. Altitude was approximately 100-200' above us and it was the size of 4 full moons. The object was black in color, dome shaped on top with a flat bottom. The dome area had what appeared to be louvers evenly spaced throughout and an antenna with a very bright white light at the top. The object made no noise and the light from the antenna left a small trail as it moved. We watched it for about 10 seconds and it dropped over the tree line out of sight. (( We have spoken via telephone with the source of the report, and she seemed to us to be quite serious- and sober-minded. We suspect that she and her grandson are quite reliable witnesses.
March 8, 2015 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Redmond, OR
Approximately at 8:45pm I stepped outside to shut our back door and make sure none of our dogs were outside before closing down the house for the night, I looked up in the sky noticing 4 red/orange round orbs/circles (regular balloon size) from where I was on my back porch (Redmond, Oregon, heading West towards Sisters, Oregon). I yelled for my mother and aunt that were there in the living room to come out to see if they saw what I was looking at. We all confirmed the exact same sighting. By the time my mother stepped outside she saw three then by the time my aunt stepped outside she saw two they took off into the night sky and were gone completely with a blink of an eye and then nothing. We immediately called 911 to see if anyone had reported the sighting, they said NO, we asked if any military operations were going on they said NO (we asked these questions because we live near the Redmond Airport) they did asked what direction the orbs traveled to, where I continued to explained exactly what I mentioned in the first paragraph (coming from the north heading east toward Sisters, Oregon, area. They asked if we wish to send a police unit out to our home but we told them no need to due to the fact that we no longer saw the red orb/circle lights in the sky at the time of talking with the police department. The police department suggest we call the UFO Government hotline number (206-722-3000). I spoke with Mr. Peter Davenport who asked me to put down everything I saw in writing and to contact the radio, press, television, newspaper and to go the website UFOCENTER.COM to report everything that we saw this evening. Date Sunday March 8, 2015, (Mr. Peter Davenport asked that we document everything I saw this evening before going to the website). The entire incident was over within 1-2 minutes. We contacted our local newspaper 03/09/15 the next morning to see if anyone had reported what we saw. They sent us over to a gentlemen that takes reports for sightings in the night sky and we left a voice message and are waiting to hear back.
March 7, 2015 · 8:50 PM · FORMATION
Grants Pass, OR
3 large orange lights in large triangle formation west of Grants Pass near Onion Mtn.
March 7, 2015 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Salem, OR
This was in the middle of downtown Salem. I can't be the only one. I was at Mission Mill Museum, taking trash out the back. It flew right over me, semi big, no sound, primarily redish orange. It was pulsing white and red. It was low enough where the building would have blocked it out if I was standing on the other side. Flew quickly (faster than an airplane) over 12th St. and Willamette University soccer field. Then stopped 5 blocks further over Bush Park area and just hovered for about 2 mins. I grabbed the only person around (an older laidy) she agreed it was hovering and looked abnormal. It stayed for about 2 mins. Moved further slowly, then blinked in and out a few times, the disappeared, like someone turned off the light switch. I took a video.
March 2, 2015 · 11:15 PM · OTHER
Albany, OR
My husband and I walked outside of our house at 11:15pm the night of March 2nd, 2015, to witness multiple singular Orange colored lights in the sky. At first, it looked as if there were only 6 of light/crafts, but as we stepped out further into our front yard we saw 5 more flying directly over us and our house, 11 craft in total. 6 lights were traveling in a straight line one after another with almost perfect distance between them on the Western horizon headed South with the other 5 lights in the Southeastern part of the sky, these lights were the ones that flew directly over our house and my husband and I, these lights/crafts seemed MUCH closer than the other 6 on the horizon, this group of lights was also traveling South. The two formations of lights seemed to be traveling to the same point in the sky... The Southeastern group of lights stopped in the sky and 3 of them formed a perfect triangle while the other 2 made a line below the triangle, in the end, with the formation looking like a key shape or a backwards P. This group of lights stayed in the sky for at least 3 minutes before one by one they disappeared. The other 6 lights were traveling in a perfect line for about 1-1.5 minutes. Then the lights started grouping together in pairs and traveling at the same speed next to each other then stopped and made a square, then a triangle and then a long triangle and stayed in that same formation and spot in the sky for several minutes then one by one they disappeared also. I was able to snap 2 photos of the crafts flying over our house but for some reason after that my camera would not work for me to take a video. These are the same lights we saw in the sky no more than a month ago. Same color, same shape, almost the same time of night, but this time there were A LOT MORE!!! The first time there were only 4 crafts and we were able to get a video which is on my desktop. I reported that incident here as well. Not sure what is going on, but this seems to be becoming a frequent happening. Good, bad? Not exactly sure but it does give one quite an ERIE feeling. Anyone else in the area see these lights? How do I attach the video and photos to this report? Can someone please tell me what is going on?????
February 27, 2015 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Canby, OR
I was driving home on a rural road in the early evening and noticed a glowing orb floating roughly 150 feet in the air. When I drove nearer, my radio cut out. It was hard to tell the exact size of the object, but I would say it was between 30 and 50 feet in diameter. It alternated between orange, yellow, and white. It appeared to be pulsing. I pulled over and continued to watch. As I did so, it began moving lazily from side-to-side. Then, it rose slowly higher into the air until it was about 300 feet above the ground. It flew away and disappeared beyond the treeline, leaving a short, hazy trail behind it. The entire incident took place in roughly a minute and a half. I did not see it anymore after that.
February 24, 2015 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Yachats, OR
At 6:07 am, I was looking over the Pacific Ocean, to the northwest, and noticed far in the distance a fiery ball in the sky. Too low to be a star or plan, too high for a boat light. I notice it was in one spot then would move very slowly to the left, stop, move slowly more left, stop. I even saw it go up in a circle and to the right a little. I watched it for almost 15 minutes (till 6:22 am), and it faintly disappeared in the west. Again, this object was motionless- Wasn't moving (hardly) at all. The ISS was suppose to be flying over our area (fit the sunlit description), but not until 6:40 am, viewing in the south and I am sure it wouldn't just 'stop' and hang out. I was thinking maybe coast guard, but it seemed to be too high to search and rescue; No jet or airplanes fly over that early and wouldn't stop mid-flight?! What else, A falling star?- wasn't moving fast enough!