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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.
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January 15, 2022 · 6:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
I just got off work and was driving northbound on I-205 going to Vancouver, WA to visit my girlfriend. I was driving a white Cadillac going 65 mph in the middle lane when I looked up noticing a large dark black shape hovering in the sky right in front of me. It was dusk to but this object stood out as blacker than black so I could see it perfectly. As I stared at it I began to analyze it. This is exactly what I thought. I thought of a black plastic garbage bag that that if it got caught on a screw on the sign of an overpass and was kinda being sucked under it. Yet I knew what I was seeing was way bigger than a bag. But I didn't see an overpass or light pole or any wires. So I knew not only was it way bigger than a garbage bag but there was nothing this black object could be hanging off. This black object at my best guess was hovering in midstop about 100 feet from the road directly in front of me. It was maybe sixty feet wide and eighty feet tall and an inky blackness. And I soon realized I'd be driving under this thing. I didn't take my eyes off it and all this happened over maybe 10 seconds at most because as I was about to drive underneath it something like a thin banner or sheet of the same blackness unraveled down from the bottom center of this thing dropping down from it. I watched just stunned as it came lower and I'm almost speeding right beneath this banner like thing coming down from it. It kept dropping lower in a word way almost timing me. It hit the ground in front of me blocking my center lane. It was as wide as my vehicle and the width of my lane a like a thin sheet of blackness. I quickly swerved wildly and in absolute panic barely making it around this thing that fell. As I righted my car I looked in my rearview just tripping on what happened. I saw three other sets of headlights behind me all swerve wildly like I did. I even counted. One. Two. Three. And knew I wasn't the only one who saw this. I started to slow down to wave these cars over but realization came over me of what happened. I got scared and took off speeding as fast as I could out of there. Now it's been a year but I can't stop thinking about what happened. Things are different. I can't stop thinking about what would of happened if I ran into that black banner like thing that dropped down from this object. And now I'm trying to find those other three drivers and want to see if there were any cameras anywhere near that stretch of highway. I've looked all over the internet and never seen any encounters of anything like what I experienced. So I'm just idk wanting to tell my story. This has changed my life and I can't stop looking at the night sky wondering if I'll see it again. But the blackness of this object was what was spooky. And shape. There was no lights anywhere. Just dark blackness and that's scary. So yeah that's what I saw and I have become obsessed with finding out what that was.
January 11, 2022 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Lapine, OR
Silent, one big lite on the bottom of craft, in the middle. It detected my presence immediately, 600 feet away in the dark, then rose and came my way. I was looking at it for minutes, I felt a pulse of something hit me as I turned away to go back in my house. Strangely I forgot the whole insident for two days. But when I woke up on the third day, it came back to me, I remembered the whole thing all over again.!!!!!
January 10, 2022 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
On Jan. 10th, 2022, at roughly 2030 PM, my spouse was in the backyard of our former rented home stargazing, while I was inside. My spouse than called at me to hurry outside and look at something. Upon arrival, I observed a spherical light at roughly 5,000 feet up, traveling slowly. The light suddenly changed directions 3 to 4 times, and shifted between the primary colors 4 times. We observed the object for roughly 3 minutes before it rapidly accelerated heading NNE and then vanished from sight. A week later, my spouse and I discovered a dead raccoon that had been skinned completely and had been apparently expertly dissected. Unsure if events are related. My background: I am a volunteer first responder with PBEM-NET and am a trained Skywarn observer, as well as a former firefighter, SAR volunteer, and EMT-B. I am also a M.Sci graduate student at Portland State University.
January 9, 2022 · 4:55 PM · CIGAR
Beaverton, OR
Observed by passenger in our car who noticed a bright vertical cigar shaped light and tail in the sky. Seemed as if the tail was getting longer, we pulled over and observed this for about 20 minutes.
January 2, 2022 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, OR
My wife and I were watching Ron's Gone Wrong on HBO MAX. We were sitting in front of our living room window facing the window. As we watched the movie we noticed these bright lights that were a perfect circle "turn on" but like they were coming down. Think of like a beam of light but in dots. They were a perfect circle. No glare or anything. They came down and then went back up. As it They went back up if looked like they were being turned off. One after thee other. When it got to the top we could see or sense the unknown object leave via the right side of the window. Not fast or like any known flying object, say a plane or helicopter or drone. Tonight has been very very stormy and windy which confused us. Because it would be a plane or drone or helicopter. We both saw these strange dot lights and didn't say anything until after we saw it leave. Then we turned to each other and asked if we saw that. I explained to my wife what I saw and she verified she saw the same thing. The whole experience took around 5-8 seconds. We live on the 3rd floor of apartments. There is a small open field across from our apartments. So the top of the lights had to be way above in the sky and the bottom had to be across the small field to what seemd like the ground. Behind the field there are other apartments. The lights didn't stop behind the apartments which means they were in front of them by the field. We both sat there trying to find explanation to what we saw but remembering how stormy it was also helped verify it wasn't normal. We both felt woth blank minds. Like shock perhaps or like we couldn't believe what we saw. It wasn't normal. It would have been the starlink satellites because the lights came down. It wasn't across the sky. My wife thinks it was as if it was an object that came down turning on the lights but I feel as it was a beam of light in form of dots. We both feel like we could see the object leave slowly as if it's floating or hovering via the right side of the window. Please contact me via email as i do not answer unknowned numbers.
January 2, 2022 · 4:19 PM · CHANGING
Eugene, OR
The objects that I saw were only visible through the camera but not to the naked eye. They’re not orbs from light. They change shape and sometimes we’re glowing. They appeared and disappeared back and forth. Sometimes they were blurry but I was able to capture a screenshot that shows all 6 of them clearly. I have a video and a screenshot from it that I can send you.
January 1, 2022 · 12:07 AM · OTHER
Tualatin, OR
Location: Seen from Tualatin, OR Approx 23-26 miles south of PDX Airport Timeframe & Details Midnight - big fireworks going on from some house below me. Then at video #1 12:07 (i'm facing straight to the East and the fireworks were fairly low in the sky - just above the houses below me). Decided to go out and take a video of what my friend was missing out on, to show her in am). Went out and ended up only seeing and filming the very last firework. Clicked the phone off, and then I saw a strange large amber glow up and over a little to the right..opened the phone and snapped a pic. (I wanted to video but opened in camera mode and snapped a pic instead. 12:08 - picture. What I saw was a lot bigger visually than what the camera shows. hurried and went to video, because it looked so different from anything I've seen in the sky. It seemed to be hovering - like a helicopter would, in my mind, like it was watching the fireworks. for some reason, i waved haha. then noticed it was now moving... that's when my nerves started freaking out. 12:08 - 1st video of object- while filming, i could tell it was slowly moving in my direction, not at me, but straight from East to west. I went to move to get a better angle to video, and my sandal was frozen to the ground, so after pulling a few times, I moved and started filming again. 12:09 - Continuing the filming of the 1st object I saw. (seemingly to slowly move West/SW and possibly climbing.) Notes: 1. While watching the video back, I noticed that there was a lower object shown at the end of the video, but didn't notice it then, because when I looked back to my left, to walk back to my back door, i saw 2 more coming from same direction as first, and they were also moving very slowly. 2. From the time I started videoing the first one, in my mind, I kept repeating, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared. I was so filled with fear. After waving and noticing the first one slowly moving somewhat in my direction, I couldn't get the image of it coming over my house and then all the other scary thoughts that go with that were running through my head.. If any of them would've come towards my house, I wouldn't have been able to continue to video. I felt that scared! 3. Because it was so cold and my nerves were on high edge, I was shaking a lot and videos were not steady. *the object's movements were very slow and steady. 4. There was what seemed like a bright, big, close star or possible satellite?? from viewing that, it can help see the movement of the objects as it/they pass in front of it. 5. It was clear - with some possible haze - I couldn't tell for sure. but I could see the constellation Orion (so small compared to "bright star' low in the south sky, which was up and further over to the west from where all the objects seemed to just blink out. At first, I thought they faded into a possible haze I couldn’t see, but really it was as if they blinked in and out a few times then just vanished. 6. Weather - Cold/freezing, but no precipitation or wind that i noticed. 7. I can send a video of typical air traffic and a map of where I am, in comparison to PDX airport. Pattern of most air traffic I see, follows I5 direction, going South to North, to the airport or north to south, away. 12:10-Video of next 2 objects and notice a third separate one in the frame. I try to turn my phone sideways - you can still track them from the steady bright white light. 12:11 Continued filming of those 3 objects, but starting with my phone sideways. talking to myself - saying that it was as if they were watching the fireworks. the movements of two objects traveling together, seemed so weird to me. Like they are separate, and doing a little dance together. 12:12 - moving to try and capture them as they moved away West, then they just seemed to flicker out.) 12:12 - tried to focus on bright white spot, to see if I could find them again. nope 12:13 - Then Saw one more coming from my left (East). I think I whispered something like "Don't scare me, Oh my God, there's another one", and I was so scared, i stopped filming sky, and started walking to my back door to go inside. Then lifted my phone to continue to film the object, while standing next to my door. *The objects did not make any sound that I could hear. At all. (And I can often hear flight traffic from planes and helicopters). Went inside, and my heart was pounding out of my chest. seemed like my fear senses were on overdrive... I was so scared that I ran up to where my friend was staying and said in a loud voice, Sheryl, Sheryl, I think I just saw ufo's - Sheryl.... She didn't respond, so I didn't want wake her. so I called my friend in MT (12:28), who I was talking with a little after 11- Sharing the videos and writing "Dude, it was closer than the picture shows, like my heart is still racing. I was so scared to be out there, like I even backed up close to the door, missing some of it, I was literally that scared." Could not go to sleep - so worried that I'd have little visitors in my room.. started texting with my sister in Mt, around 3 who happened to just respond to my earlier happy new years text. I was so grateful to be texting with her, because I was still so scared and couldn't fall asleep. I ended up only sleeping maybe 1/2 after her text, when i then woke and ended up not being able to fall back asleep. Details I shared with her. *They were a lot closer than what my camera could catch. *So scared my heart didn't stop beating hard for at least 1/2 hour. *Seemed like they were just pulsating. no flicking on and off light patterns, like typical aircrafts at night. *No other color (white,red,green, etc) other than Amber-like glow - kind of pulsating. I'd say I'd compare it to staring at a part of a candle flame. *"Moving going from east to west and I swear they seemed to be hovering around my area, before slowly moving off. I was so scared. and then they just disappeared one after the other. After moving towards West, They just kind of flickered out of sight. *Hard to tell, but it definitely seemed like some sort of vehicle - bigger than a helicopter. appeared to be between a circle and triangle, maybe Triangle with more rounded corners . possibly the amber light was deeper in color in the area under the edges. The whole bottom was this candle amber like and didn't seem like it stayed solid - color in movement like a candle would or pulsating somehow. *Seemed like they were watching the fireworks. Moved a lot steadier than what my camera captured. they kind of sometimes flicked in and out. It was so scary and amazing at the same time. The first couple seemed to literally be hovering for a while, before slowly traveling to the west. *My cat was so freaked out that I found her hiding under my bed. could be because of the fireworks, but when i finally got her out from under there, she stayed on my chest for at least an hour. (usually just sleeps on the end of my bed), and when she got up, she still laid close by my side. She was acting off all night and very skittish. I did not sleep - so scared. I wish my phone could’ve captured what my eyes saw. 1/1 11:20am Text with My uncle who is retired, but flew fighter jets, then flew for other sec of govt, then i think around 30 yrs commercial... What I wrote to him, and then his response. "I saw them hovering then moving slowly to the right, They were so much closer and larger than what seems in this video. I noticed them after watching a firework in the sky for New Year Eve. I look a little to the right and bam saw the hovering and then moving slowly to the west. He asked if the white dot was a plane - No, I think it was a low bright star (but looked bigger and closer than other stars and Orion that i could see in the sky. maybe it was close bright satalight? White dot - no movement, has slight sparkle)- you can use it to see how slow they're moving and how they move past it. Honestly as they moved to the west and maybe a little higher, they just van
December 29, 2021 · 11:30 AM · OVAL
Vida, OR
Between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm 12/29/21 I viewed an ovalish shaped object moving at a high rate of speed, moving east to the west several hundred feet below the ridge top on the hills directly across from my location. The sun was out and I caught site of its reflection when it was a little to the right of being directly across from me, it was around half the size of a car and at the speed it was traveling it only took 10-15 seconds to disappear to the west. Seemed to be pretty close to the north hills as it moved in a straight line of travel east to west. I’ve been thinking about this all day, trying to make sense of what I saw, it was clearly some kind of self propelled craft? It happened so fast I had no time to get a camera.
December 4, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Eugene, OR
I saw an odd light traveling south to north - no landing lights. It appeared out of a clear sky and moved very fast and then nearly stopped before it disappeared. I thought it was weird. 10 minutes later my wife (Dermatology PA) joined me in the hot tub talking. After a few minutes I noticed what I thought was a similar bright light flying west to east above us in the sky. The sky was mostly clear with sparse wispy cloud cover. I told my wife to watch the light. We watched the light slip behind a quarter-sized cloud. We were waiting for it to emerge beyond the small cloud… But it never did. We were using a constellation of stars just on the other side of the cloud. It should have been visible… But it was gone.
December 2, 2021 · 8:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Portland, OR
I took a photo of the moon and saw this ufo that looks like a black ufo with ten green lights where the dots go [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
November 22, 2021 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Seaside, OR
Flashing lights in East sky seaside We basically in the same place in sky for at least 2 hours had not changed it’s location my son said he thought he saw two lights come out of right side and the left side an looking at it wile typing this message at 5:12 am Looks like flashing lights
November 20, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Lincoln City, OR
I was looking out to see what planets I could see when I saw this red and green light moving very fast across the sky, then stop and go back the other way, then it stopped again and went up and down, darting around, not like a helicopter as it moved so quickly and oddly, then it stopped and just went straight down and I couldn't see it as it went behind a house and it didn't come back up?? Then a blinking red light came flying across the sky, which could have been a plane. Just went straight across, so not suspicious
November 15, 2021 · 5:45 PM · EGG
Lincoln City, OR
Watching Pacific ocean, 5:45 pm bright moving object rather large going straight path going east,knew it was not a plane, went a short way very bright backed up going on same path no turn around like a plane went to bright object and then object did not move,drove south abut 10 minutes to my near another beach, object still in same place, had to leave and object never moved again, from 5:45 till 6:30 object still there. Color was very bright white, with 10by50 binoculars saw some red at top of "egg" shape,some bluish colors on bottom it never moved again, was not real high like planets, was not real high from beach, had to go home,trees, make it hard to see although I can sure see Jupiter,object was lower and I am unable to walk to beach ,close by but can't walk well
November 6, 2021 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Albany, OR
Kids were looking out the window and seen up to 8 red lights in the sky flashing slow and fast. I could not see them with naked eye, but when my son took a picture you could clearly see there was some there. When they woke me up we were only able to see 2 of them. One of my son's reported seeing one go up in the sky and change into a yellow color and another son reported one move and change and turn orange.
October 29, 2021 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Round orb like had a hovering movement. A smaller piece separated from the bigger identical of the larger one.
October 21, 2021 · 7:00 PM
Redmond, OR
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October 13, 2021 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Beavercreek, OR
As I sit in my easy chair I started to fall asleep and all of a sudden my dog started barking wildly, I woke up to extremely bright rotating blue and white lights. These lights were 35 feet away from my location thru 2 sliding glass windows. I did get a feeling of being scanned or probed. This all happen in the span 5 seconds..The first thing that came to my mine that I was under attacked or the law, maybe a search party was out there, I live in a rural area (10 acre) and there are no roads out back of our house. I ran outside and all the way around the house whatever out is gone. I never saw any solid structure just the lights. Your application would not allow me to enter country or state. Oregon USA.
October 2, 2021 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Brookings, OR
We stepped outdoors and observed what appeared to be a bright celestial object like a planet or a star in the Southern sky but as we observed it moved around unlike a planet or star and has four trailing smaller objects. I took a video with my IPad and enlarged it but couldn't see any detail, just the bright spherical object moving around erratically in one location. We also observed it through a telescope and could see the trailing objects better but still no detail.
September 26, 2021 · 8:31 AM · OVAL
Redmond, OR
On September 26th, 2021, at 8:31 AM a friend of mine was filming a hot air balloon from his driveway using his new (at the time) cell phone camera. Just recently he showed me the footage and I felt it was worthy of further scrutiny. We took the original video to a local business that was able to enhance the footage to the best of their ability. The video shows an object(s) pass by a hot air balloon 3 times within a 5 second period. One's first impression that the object is a bird or insect can be quickly eliminated when considering the incredible speed with which the object travelled. The first pass shown on the video appears to take place behind the balloon which further dismisses the idea that the object is a bird or insect (it would have to be extremely large to be seen at that distance). The second and third passes show an elliptical shaped object moving from left to right then right to left respectively. Although closer to the camera, the speed of the object is still quite extraordinary. I have always believed that we are not the only ones in this universe. So, is this-(A) some type of alien technology that is beyond our comprehension? or (B), some secret government project? (If so, why fly it so close to a balloon and risk the lives of those on board should something go wrong?). Having ruled out the obvious (airplane, helicopter, drone, party balloon, bird etc.), in a situation such as this I'll fall back on Occam's razor- the simplest explanation is probably the best- and consequently I'll go with option "A" above. So, there it is. What it is we may never know. Although for myself and my buddy we have all the proof we need.
September 23, 2021 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Albany, OR
Saw a round bright light in sky not moving or blinking like stars do when I zoomed in on video looked like a heat signature of a body in middle of the circle object
September 22, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Albany, OR
Was sitting talking, windows were still open, clear night no clouds but was dark - I was facing the window listening to friend talk when I saw a flash of light, and looked and there was a ball of green light with an aura of lighter green surrounding it fully 'dropping' straight down - it didn't drop not fast like a meteor or falling star, but also was not slow. As it dropped there was a light 'tail' that was short but disappeared as it moved. I tried to make sense and then said "oh my God - check that out" and my friend turned but it disappeared into a nearby large forested area off the Willamette River; it could not be seen due to the trees not because it faded out - looked as if it were ~ 5 miles away, not too far.
September 15, 2021 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Canby, OR
For multiple nights on clear nights I am able to observe to the west what appears to be a floating pyramid with just the outside edges lit up. I am well aware of star link and it is not that. Star leak does appear in our skies I am well aware of it like I just said. As far as the second witness she is an elderly woman that lives in the same building that I am temporarily living in that I talked to on occasion when downstairs having a cigarette. She seems very with it and strong mentally. I forgot to mention that I can see the pyramid moving up down left right I'm diagonally zip over here zip over there although my field of view it is only about an inch at a time but what confuses me is If this was a satellite it was just drift across the sky If it was a Celestial object it wouldnt appear in the same part of the sky every day for as long as I've seen it in the same spot. I also have to say that I am a seasoned researcher into the UFO phenomenon. My last name ! has military legacy in the Air Force through my father and His brother. My father was in the Air Force So it was his brother but he went on into the intelligence community after. I am told he's not allowed to answer Russia but I don't want to say anymore on that subject out of respect 4 MI uncle.
September 11, 2021 · 11:06 PM · CIRCLE
medford, OR
me and my mom were driving down to a 711 market and while i was in the car waiting for her to come back and i noticed something bright appear and it was silent if i didn’t see it i wouldn’t have known it was there and looking back on the video i was slowing it down and noticed that that light at one point just went off completely and couldn’t see it for that split second. thats about everything that happened though after it went over the market i didn’t see it anymore.
September 10, 2021 · 7:39 PM · CIGAR
Duluth, OR
No sound, contrail, lights, or change in sleep or direction. Took video and photos but unfortunately only the photos turned out. We watched this craft or “cigar” move from north to south near the shoreline until it was no longer in view. Any input or questions are welcome. I would the opinion of others. Would be pretty cool if it was really something :) 1st photo is hard to see but the 2nd is the same photo just zoomed. Taking with an IPhone.