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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 21, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
I was up on the roof of my apartment complex, lying on my back and taking the night sky in. I saw what I thought to be a shooting star in the sky to the east. As I looked through my binoculars, I discovered 6 oval-like shapes moving in formation. They emitted no light nor made any sound, and were dark brown in appearance. The shape of the objects reminded me of the cap of a mushroom, and they moved slightly from side to side while in formation. They moved westward through the sky, at an apparent high rate of speed, similar to that of a satellite. As they headed toward the western horizon, the two objects on the flanks shifted away from the group and quickly fell back in formation. This event lasted approximately one minute.
June 20, 2014 · 10:35 PM · FORMATION
McMinnville, OR
At least 7 orbs of light flying in some kind of formation, all whizzing around each other and then leaving one by one, the last light fizzled like a candle, it was the weirdest thing I have ever seen and I honestly can not explain how unnatural it was to see.
June 20, 2014 · 8:55 PM · CIGAR
Otis, OR
Craft was sivler or metallic, reflected light, very bright and just stayed there.
June 19, 2014 · 6:17 PM · SPHERE
Wilsonville, OR
Sighting 6-19-2014 from 6:17 to 6:22 PM PST pm Wilsonville, Oregon, small-appearing, spherical white, pearl-like object WITHIN OUR ATMOSPHERE, very high up, I am gut-guessing that it was at over 2o,ooo feet but difficult to say without anything to compare it to. It was at most 5% to 10% the size of a full moon when the moon is at it highest point in the sky. Fixed, not moving at all, appeared to be NAILED TO THE SKY, impervious to any wind whatsoever. Had it moved at all during the observation we would have assumed that it was a child's balloon. Difficult to spot in the first place, my wife only saw it because we were on our backs sky-gazing, even when she pointed to it, it took me a good ten seconds to lock onto it myself. Binoculars failed to reveal any detail. No camera that we have access to would have been worthy of capturing it. While I was fumbling for a better pair of binocs, object virtually winked out of existence while my wife had her eyes locked onto it. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be a very capable, and sober-minded, individual. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD
June 15, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Newport, OR
This observation took place after midnight around 12:30 am but I couldn't get the time entered correctly in box provided. I live across HiWay 101 not far from the beach. I went out on my balcony to smoke a cigarette and looked towards the ocean through the trees surrounding my home and I noticed some orange round lights drifting through the sky. At first there were maybe 5 or 6 of these lights. As I continued to watch more and more lights appeared coming from the area of the beach and ocean. At one point there were probably 20 lights visible to me. As I looked towards the horizon more of these lights appeared. In all I would say there were 50 or more of these lights. My background is Psychiatric Emergency Specialist, and I am also a Social Worker.
June 13, 2014 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
June 13, 2014, 2345 hrs.. Spotted 3 red balls flying in straight line close together from west hills over Portland, Oregon, heading east gaining altitude to be joined by 2 more, coming up from same location moved across moon lost in clouds total time of less than 2 mins. Witnessed by myself, ((four names deleted)) from next door.
June 8, 2014 · 6:50 PM · OTHER
La Grande, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 6, 2014 · 11:50 PM · CHANGING
Portland, OR
Accompanied by a very loud hum, an object appeared rapidly in the sky and was very bright, three rectangle squares of blue, green, and red, sort of arranged in a diamond shape. It moved very quickly far distances and came back, but its lights always facing down. The very loud hum continued. When it disappeared from our eyes, we could still hear it. It then came back again. All of a sudden six very white dome shaped lights appeared arranged in a circle, then all rotated. We saw white beams come down. It then quickly disappeared. Lots and lots of dogs were barking.
June 6, 2014 · 1:18 AM · TRIANGLE
Salem, OR
The first one we saw was glowing bluish green and it started moving straight and wobbling in an "S" pattern. Shortly after I went to the store me and my boyfriend were joking about seeing something. As we got home he started running inside and so did I joking around and as he looked back he said baby look what's that?! And that's when we both turned and saw three glowing orange craft objects. That's when we actually flew inside, falling over each other trying to get into the door. My boyfriend and I were beyond frantic and we had to get my mom to see what was outside.... As we went outside we noticed there was nothing in the sky anymore. Within a few minutes, from the horizon came one of the orange crafts this was one of eight. The first four went into what looked like a spade formation then while In this formation one craft was glowing brighter than the rest and slowly dimmed in place and disappeared very quickly then from there more crafts appeared from the horizon then dissapeared even quicker.
June 1, 2014 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
Looking south from a 3rd story window, the sun still hadn't gone completely down so there were no starts out yet, I initially saw an extremely bright flashing light light altering from red to yellow to orange. It was stationary in the sky. We observed for about two minutes. I called my roommates and neighbors over to show them, about 30 seconds after everyone began observing it, it started traveling east then began to fade out to the point it was no longer visible.
June 1, 2014 · 8:05 PM · CHANGING
Salem, OR
My sons (10 and 7) were in the front yard playing when I noticed them looking at the sky in awe, I asked what was happening and the older one told me I should go out and see, it took me a few seconds to get out and when I got there above us in the distance (miles perhaps) high up there was a peculiar cluster of colored lights, I want to say their colors were white, red, green, blue, yellow. They were changing pattern quite fast, not zipping though, some were big and some smaller. At one point I noticed that the formed a nice oval, at that point the brightest one was red and in the middle... they were traveling South. I posted on Facebook to see if anyone else noticed but I got no response so far. By the time I was able to take a picture they were far and almost invisible, I will send it to you anyway, if you can take a look at it the cluster is in the very middle of it.
June 1, 2014 · 7:30 PM · TEARDROP
Portland, OR
At approximately 19:30, I was on a flight as it approached Portland International Airport. I was seated in a window seat approx. 6 rows in front of the wing at that time. Around 15 minutes prior to landing (NE approach), I noticed an unidentified object in the sky, while viewing the landscape below. We were still several thousand feet off the ground (houses were approx. 5mm in size) at this time. The object appeared to be stationary and approximately 1000 feet below us and to the left of the plane. It consisted of a cluster of round metallic objects making up the top half of the craft, which via a circular midsection joined an elongated four sided pyramid as the bottom half. All areas of the craft were silver and reflective in nature. The top half can best be described as if you created a larger sphere out of adjoining smaller spheres. This top half was not elongated or billowing in the wind as a weather ballon might do. I observed the object for approx. 5 seconds, as my plane passed by. My view of the object was excellent. There were no clouds in the sky, and I could see multiple details of the craft. I did not note any vapors or heat waves emanating from the craft. After we left the craft behind, I began scanning objects on the ground to reference the crafts size. My best guess is comparing it to a semi truck while we were 600 ft above it. Others may have seen this craft but no one said anything on the flight. Unfortunately we passed by too quick to take a picture, but I am 100% certain of what I saw.
May 31, 2014 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
Grants Pass, OR
At 11:15 pm my father in law called my wife and outside. He was yelling about something in the sky. My wife went out first because I was preoccupied. Then my wife started yelling for me I thought something was wrong because of how she sounded. I ran to the front yard ready to take care of who ever was causing problems. My wife told me to look in the sky and I saw a huge redish orange ballon the sky. At first I thought maybe a comet or something of that sort but then it started moving away from the earth towards space. After it started moving it only a few seconds before it was completely out of sight. I have always believed in extraterrestrial beings and have been studying the subject for close to a decade. I have always hoped to be lucky enough to see something like this but never expected to really see it. So far I have asked 20-30 people if they had seen anything in the sky last night but so far we are the only ones. It's not a hoax, I know what I saw, and it couldn't have been anything else.
May 31, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Bend, OR
Four orange lights moving southeast and disappeared into the sky.
May 27, 2014 · 3:05 AM · LIGHT
La Grande, OR
i witnessed an orange dot of light in the northern sky traveling from west to east. It was brighter then the surrounding stars and moved faster then a jet plane. I watched it through a good set of field glasses and did not see any flashing or marking lights like on a plane. It traveled in a straight line to the horizon and vanished into the haze over the mountains east of the city of La Grande.
May 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
May 24th, around 9:30pm, I was sitting outside on my front patio. The sun was just begining to set. My Neighbor's daughter was playing two doors down and something in my head had told me to look up towards the horizon. I'm in a partially vegitated area with large trees, so if I were to just lok in that direction, trying to look for a specific object, chances are that I would not have been able to spot what I saw. I was smoking a cigarette at that time, and as I said, "Something in my brain had told me to focus in that specific direction as if I was being told so." As I looked up, my neighbor's child said, at the same time I saw it and said, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy, come here quick! Look at pretty green light in the sky! What is it?" She came out and immediately started to panic and thats when I said, "Am I really Seeing this? Am I crazy or are you seeing this too!" There was a very bright, pulsating chartruess spherical object, moving at a high speed, and very low altitude. It was a very bright neon like color sphere and it made not one sound. I cannot tell you how big it was but, it was literally pulsating with light. At first I thought it was an airplane since I live just down the road about 10 miles from a small airport. The name of the airportis, Hillsboro Aviation. (So if you need to call them to see if they picked up anything on radar, you have te name.) When it went over us, there was absolutely zero sound. I even tuned into background noise to make sure there was a jet exhaust sound. Absolutely zero noise! And the strange thing was, being so close to an airport, theres constant air traffic. When this approached, there was not one aircraft in the sky. So we would have heard it. I ran out to the to a clearing and watched it continue from it going northbound. I contined observe to se if I could make out any form of object. It immediately came to a hault in mid air. By that time, it was very close to the airport and then it began to flash and get brighter. It sat there for a good two minutes. At that time, I decided to make a run for my phone to snap a shot. As I came back out and was fumbling with my camera, I looked up, and it made slight turn and began to move, then it took off at a blink of an eye. This is the second time I've seen these spheres. I've seen blue ones in the Tillamook National Forest coming home from Salmon fishing. And they were in the forest, then bolted out into a meadow. They moved so fast that the trees swayed as they exited the forest and were spinning around the sky, then disapeared into orbit.
May 24, 2014 · 12:45 AM · LIGHT
Wapinitia, OR
50 degree long streak of white light (lighted line) Would be 50% opacity in photoshop for a visual comparison. Speed would be equivalent to a plane or satellite going across the sky Saw for 2 minutes 25 degrees west of polaris - north or due 335 degrees NW No moon. Moon came up at 3:30Am No bright leading object at beginning of contrail. Satellite (or a white circle) seemed to be following parallel to the line near the beginning. Another observer next to me said he saw the lead satellite followed by two more object behind it. I did not see the other objects through binoculars and looked at least 10 degrees behind. No photos/video.
May 21, 2014 · 9:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Cottage Grove, OR
Red and blue lights like a police car in the sky traveled north then abruptly swept east and out of sight. The lights were brighter than anything I have ever seen in the sky.
May 21, 2014 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Tigard, OR
Me and two friend were outside when we spotted a orange light in the sky it was triangle like shape. We were freaking out wondering what it was because it was definitely not a plane! We at first thought it was a satellite but then we seen another and another. They moved at a medium speed two of them disappeared. The other hovered over us and then three little lights came shooting out of super fast. We took pictures of it and what came out was very strange looked just like a UFO!
May 18, 2014 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Lewisburg, OR
I was driving on a backroad near Lewisburg, Oregon. There was a beautiful rainbow. I stopped the car and snapped a series of pictures. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until I reviewed the photos later that day. In one of the photos there is an oval shaped object in the sky. It was only in one photo so it appeared and disappeared instantly. I'm submitting the photo to the address below.
May 18, 2014 · 3:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
My boyfriend and I were standing in our kitchen at 3:20 AM last night (early this morning). His back was to the window as I was facing him and the window. The window looks to the northwest towards the Rose Quarter/Moda Center. As I was talking to him, a flash from outside caught my eye. It was bright red and took up a very large portion of the lower sky. It was throbbing like a strobe light and changing colors with each throb. I shouted, "Look at the sky!!" We both ran over to the window and for the next maybe four seconds, watched as the colors changed. Then it was just gone. My first thought was it was some kind of event going on as it's not abnormal to see spotlights in the sky for things like that. Then I remembered that it was 3:20 AM and the entire city was pretty much shut down. I've been monitoring news sights, asking facebook, etc and have found no answers whatsoever. Northern Lights is the closest looking thing I can describe it as lookin! g like but that's not what it was. Did anybody else see this or have you seen anything similar? I can't stop thinking about it and would love to hear any opinions on what you think it was??
May 17, 2014 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
My husband and I were barbecuing last night and witnessed a strange object in the sky. It was a round object glowing with yellow, orange, and red hues. It lingered for a time and we caught it on camera, although it is difficult to see the strange hue it was emitting in the video. It lingered in the sky for some time before it disappeared. It reappeared again a short time later and then disappeared in the sky again. It was like nothing we have ever seen before and was definitely not an airplane or helicopter.
May 14, 2014 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Bend, OR
These are the accounts of our UFO sighting on Wednesday May 14, 2014 at approximately 8:00 PM in Bend Oregon. I am an Alternative and Holistic Healthcare Practitioner and my Husband is a Data Base Developer for a University. We have never had a UFO encounter of any kind. My Husband and I were driving South bound on the Bend Parkway. The sun was getting close to setting and the skies were clear and beautiful. Suddenly we both saw a large, reflective, oval, disk-shaped object appear in the sky with a fuzzy "haze" around it. It looked like it was flying on the south end of town between the Bend and Sun River area, perhaps near China Hat Road. The disk appeared smaller than a plane but the shape and the brightness of the reflective material was what really caught our eyes. It was also moving very fast and we were both astonished because we’d never seen anything of that shape or speed in the skies before. It lasted for about 10 seconds and then suddenly disappeared completely! This is when we got pretty excited. We were both exclaiming with astonishment when about 4-5 seconds later, it reappeared! This time travelling much faster and lasting approximately 7-8 seconds before completely disappearing again. It was amazing
May 11, 2014 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
I was outside having a cigarette, when I looked up to see an orb that was very orange-red. I thought it was a plane at the first instant, but knew something was off immediately after. It had slight changes in trajectory. At one point, I saw some things either break off or drop from it, though the detail was impossible to ascertain due to the sheer luminosity of the object, and how faint the objects falling from it were. I watched for a few minutes, dumbfounded. My friends couldn't figure it out either. What was strange, is that the sky beforehand did look strange at sunset and moon rise. there seemed to be very distinct lines in the sky that seemed otherworldly, toward the east. It was like watching sun rays at dawn, but it was running from north to east.