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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
April 17, 2022 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
Damascus, OR
On Easter evening at 10:35pm I was watching the night sky with my infrared scope and noted 3 white orbs hovering to the west of my vantage point. All were hovering in place at different heights (all below cloud deck) then one by one they slowly started to move northwards. Just then I note another "just appear", then another; until there were 7 solid white orbs, all at different heights moving very slowly, at times hovering in place again. It took 20min for the objects to go from warning tower area to mountain range that the Persimmon Golf Course sits on. Orbs continued on at low elevations over mountain and on northwards. I noted neighborhood dogs going crazy, but all frogs, crickets and owls shut right up.
April 16, 2022 · 11:30 PM · CROSS
Eugene, OR
We saw them land across the river from the mall and they looked like the were on fire, but faded out in one at a time. I don’t know if anyone else saw them.
April 2, 2022 · 10:04 PM · CIRCLE
Lebanon, OR
The object(s) that my mom, fiancé, and myself witnessed were multiple circular objects acting in a very unexplainable way. We were looking outside and noticed a very bright “star” or so we thought until it continued to get really bright, move forward and then slowly the light would dimmer and die out, but right before the light would completely die out, another one would appear in the exact location the first one first appeared. What was odd about this was every light would appear in the same spot before moving forward as the light dimmed off. Not all of them were the same brightness either, some were brighter then others, some would start off dim while gradually getting super bright. This was not a shooting start because it was moving upwards in direction and it was nothing that any of us have ever witnessed. This happened for 8 minuets at least from what I watched. I also have a recording of this because I honestly have never seen anything like it before. There were planes in the area as well as other stars and they were 10 times bigger in size compared to those objects in the sky. I could pick this up on my camera as with stars and planes I can’t.
April 2, 2022 · 9:51 PM · FORMATION
Union, OR
Brooking in the North sky noticed the five objects moving the same speed same distance part with no sound in formation with the middle one going in and out and break the damn from Bright to dim so I snapped some pictures and they disappeared and then I looked at my photos later and this is what I came up with
April 2, 2022 · 2:31 AM · LIGHT
salem, OR
A cat set of my security camera so I was checking it out when I saw a light that was following the cat. I ran outside and watched it follow the cat across the street then it faded away.
March 30, 2022 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Salem, OR
In yard walking south around 9 pm. On phone with family member. Glanced up to sky while walking and caught movement over left shoulder. Street lights were on and it was dark out. Stars visible but possibly hazy light cloud cover. Turned around to see movement better and saw 5-6 fuzzy round objects in the sky flying north in formation. Close to airport and familiar with all sorts of aircraft coming too and from and there was no correlating sound to the objects that sounded anything like any flying object. Seemed high up like jet plane distance but bigger. No flashing lights or colors seen. The objects moved in formation smoothly like an uneven V formation like geese but way closer together. I told my family memeber I had to go and hung up and tried to grab a picture but I lost it through the outline of the tree as I was moving fast. Tracked with my eyes where it should be but looked down at my phone for camera app and couldn't find it after that. Very unfamiliar sighting and I look up a LOT in my life.
March 24, 2022 · 1:20 PM · TEARDROP
Forest Grove, OR
Black object appeared to be large, but far away. also seemed to by hovering against the wind, in a southwest direction toward the coast.
March 23, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CIGAR
Burns, OR
I was taking pictures and was puzzled by this brown cigar when I looked at them later.
March 20, 2022 · 10:17 PM · FIREBALL
Grants Pass, OR
I was setting up my telescope when a friend of mine stopped by. He mentioned that he had looked through a telescope but hasn’t ever actually seen anything through one. So I set up the telescope and first focus on Saturn abs have him look. Then I gave him check out Jupiter and it’s different colored layers. Then I say to him the fun part is when you point it in an area where you can’t see anything and play with the focus. I set the focus to see past Jupiter and turned the telescope 180 degrees. My friend looks through the lens and says, “What the f***, you’re going to want to see this.” When I looked I could see two of whatever they were.(I’ll include a drawing of what we saw). They were red and yellow circular in shape with multiple flame like tails trailing behind them like some kind of propulsion system. For the matter of their size the circular part at the front looked to be about the same size Jupiter has appeared maybe 2 minutes before seeing these, but the trails were massive. I looked away for a second to look at my friend and say,”whoa.” When I looked back they were gone. I instantly did a drawing of what we had seen so I wouldn’t forget. I’m a fairly decent artist although you wouldn’t be able to tell from this drawing because I did it fast so nothing would be lost from my memory. I’m pretty Good with proportions seeing as how I have to make drawings to scale for my company. But this is what they looked like.
March 18, 2022 · 12:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Florence, OR
I have a psycho sematic stress disorder seemingly from a plethora of non proven circumstances. I did not actually see this one I spotted it as I viewed the photos. I have seen one other u.f.o. in the past in florence. It was chrome, silver or Grey. It turned without moving and made a linear projected path similar to Back To The Future leaving what appeared to be flames in its wake.
March 15, 2022 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
South of Portland Oregon, OR
I was in the very back of an alaska airlines flight from santa ana to portland or. It was night time, somewhere around 9:30pmish. The plane just began its decent to land at PDX, and I was looking out the window. I was looking at the ground, and lights on the ground were pretty sparse, so I figured we were flying over somewhere rural. At some point I noticed a light moving with the trajectory of rhe plane on the ground. It was like a spot light shining on dark areas on the ground from something tailing the plane. In completly dark areas on the ground it apeared like a VERY large bright circle, but when it crossed areas of light like houses or cars, it would shift shapes around terrestrial light sources as if to evade or doge them. This spot light from an arial source followed with the plane for about 45 seconds, and disapeared before the plane entered airspace above the larger Portland area.
March 11, 2022 · 3:00 AM · OTHER
South Eugene, OR
I have been watching this craft break off into three separate crafts for 3 yrs. Always bright changing colors. I have up close pictures and far away pictures. Always 3am to sunrise and always N.E. to N.W. got to a point of it moving up into a much bigger craft.
March 7, 2022 · 9:05 PM · SPHERE
Warrenton, OR
Myself (48), my oldest (22) and my youngest (19) had just gotten slushies for my youngest’s 19th birthday and were parked in a Costco parking lot. We were sitting in our car talking. My youngest was sitting in the back and noticed a strange light through the panoramic moonroof. At first he thought it was a star, but it moved. Then he thought it was a satellite, but it changed in brightness and direction. That’s when he brought it to our attention. By the time we started filming, it had already changed direction 5 times. It moved from a close distance to maybe a mile away almost instantly. It also would grow incredibly bright, fade, disappear and even strobe. In the video it was in the sky to the North, most likely over the Columbia river. It was moving at a speed and direction that would be impossible with our technology. It seemed to be between 100 feet and 2000 feet in elevation. Movements were very fluid and slow to lightning fast. After watching it for several minutes, it seemed to fade into the distance to the North which would put it at a speed of at least 3 times the speed of our aircraft. We see Coast Guard helicopters and local aircraft all the time. This was nothing like anything we had seen before. We had no doubt this was a UFO.
March 7, 2022 · 4:30 AM · SPHERE
ROSEBURG, OR
While sitting on the front porch facing the north, I noticed a blue ball of light in the sky traveling low over the horizon, from west to east disappearing over the horizon behind the mountain. The color stayed the same throughout the sighting.
March 6, 2022 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
Dallas, OR
It floated across sky rotating with light or sun glare.
February 17, 2022 · 6:50 AM · OTHER
grants pass, OR
my wife went outside front yard just before 7:am to let the dogs out she looked around like we always do because we live in the mountains, she looked up behind the woodshed in the sky and a magic carpet looking thing appeared and disappeared with a woosh pooff strange unheard sound. She said it looked black in the blue sky about the size of 20' x 20' shape, quiet then woosh,she stayed there looking for about 10 min. got cold and came inside.I am writing this for her because she is still shaking and extremely puzzled .Wow what a morning, thx for the outlet to report this.
February 12, 2022 · 5:37 PM · DIAMOND
Gresham, OR
I was playing ball with my dog at 5:37 and looking up at the sky. I saw a distinct circular aircraft with sides like a polygon coming from the southeast. The aircraft was flying low and was flying in a straight line but rotating and spinning while flying against the wind. I followed it on foot, and then it vanished into the fog. Afterward a plane took off from PDX up into the sky to my left into the sunset. I have no question as to what it was that I saw. I was 100% sober and it was flying pretty low. It was very distinct.
February 6, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Eugene, OR
many blueish W like shapes flashing and slowly moving
February 3, 2022 · 7:18 PM · CIRCLE
Eugene, OR
Looked at the sky and noticed slightly glowing spheres in a shape that resembled a Chinese Dragon, long and undulating. The formation resembled when geese fly but only one “row”. Each craft stayed equally distanced apart but would move so it looked like they would move up and down. Mimicking the undulation of a snake or dragon. The group of them was heading north. They were flying close enough that we could see them pretty clearly, but I’m not sure of the actual elevation. A few seconds after it disappeared in the night sky, I noticed two planes near where I first noticed the UFO. I know there’s no way these are Starlink, as they werent lights, didnt move in a straight line, and were really close.
February 1, 2022 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Aumsville, OR
While in bed I noticed a strange light just above the other homes rooftops in the neighborhood. It then split into 2 separate lights (amber in color). My wife and I were facing south as we watched, and they were headed north. The first ball maintained a constant direction and speed, while the other flight seemed more sporadic before matching the speed of the first. We opened the window thinking they were helicopters but no sound was emited. We watched them until they were over our roof. Next we ran downstairs to the front of the house to continue watching. We located the light immediately, still heading from south to north. The second light faded out as the original one continued on its path. Then a smaller light shot straight down and stopped just below the first light making a streak that faded quickly. In a clockwise motion the small ball rotated 90⁰ to the same level as the original and then shot back into the original ball. It continued to move north never changing in elevation or speed as it disappeared through the clouds. Camera footage was terrible when facing north due to bright house lights and streetlights. I am former military and have seen and been in military aircraft in combat and training, this is like nothing I've seen.
January 26, 2022 · 5:13 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
Wrong photo first send… That photo was a few seconds after it disappeared Possibly a contrail behind a high-altitude aircraft? PD
January 26, 2022 · 5:13 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
Above and to the right of power pole in photo
January 25, 2022 · 12:30 AM · CYLINDER
Portland, OR
There was a bright light in the sky with 2 smaller ones. The larger one would light up the s k y like a camera flash. The smaller ones moved irratically. Within about 20 minutes they all disappeared. It was about 12:30 am so it was really dark, I snapper pictures and some I lightened and zoomed In.
January 15, 2022 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Ontario, OR
I was turning off my front door light and looking out the door window for a second and looked up at approximate 45 degree angle several red to orange lights in a curved arc line seeming to be rotating right to left, while the leading light would seem to disappear into the clouds and one at the opposite end would appear as if rotating. This lasted about 2 minutes total until it disappeared into the clouds. The cloud level must have been low or some fog might have been present because it seemed so close and covering significant space. I tried to get video with my phone but was only able to catch the last couple of lights videoing through the door window. I didn't think I had time to put clothes and shoes on to get outside to video.