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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
December 18, 2023 · 8:35 PM · FIREBALL
Lebanon, OR
My mom, sister and I were leaving my mom's house when we noticed what appeared to be some kind of aircraft way up high, but it looked like it was on fire. It was orange, BRIGHT orange. Despite this, it was flying calmly and making sudden turns every now and then. It took another sharp turn before suddenly disappearing completely. Unfortunately I was unable to get photo or video evidence.
November 27, 2023 · 1:05 PM · CIGAR
Bandon, OR
I was standing on my front porch and heard a helicopter coming. So I looked and it was the Coast Guard heading right towards my house from the Northeast heading southwest. All of the sudden there was this white cigar shaped thing (with what looked like a long window in the middle of it) coming straight towards the helicopter from the southeast going to the northwest. I thought for sure it was going to collide with the Coast Guard. Thankfully, they were much faster than the white cigar shaped thing. The cigar was going so slow that I could not hear the helicopter any longer. I saw it long enough to open the door holler for my daughter to come here close the door turn back around and still see it before it went behind my tree. The sky was blue no clouds at all, no birds. I could see it through my apple tree branches. It was quite thin compared to the helicopter. The I could see what I can only sense was a window right in the middle, shaped like a cigar. I could see the white all the way around the window. It had no wings, no tail, no sound at all. It was one single object. It was much slower than the helicopter. It had no lights. I thought if it was an aircraft it would have been illegal for them to fly so closely. It was also very low to the ground.
November 27, 2023 · 11:20 AM · LIGHT
Gresham, OR
White light in the sky. At first glance the light almost looked like a star seen during the day, however there were no other visible stars. The light did not appear to be moving. I was driving and temporary lost sight of the object after a few minutes due to my line of sight being blocked by trees and buildings. A minute or two later when my sight was no longer obstructed, the light had disappeared, however in the same section of the sky there was now two fighter jets moving in the direction of where the light had been.
November 25, 2023 · 9:59 AM · CONE
Mount Hood, OR
While driving to a Christmas tree farm in Oregon City, OR, sited an unusual object hovering in the sky and not moving. No cables or power lines were in the vacinity of my view of the object.
November 21, 2023 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
La Grande, OR
At approximately 6:30 am PST driving west into La Grande, Oregon, I saw a large bright white light that I assumed was a planet. I pointed it out to my granddaughter who stated it wasn’t a planet and was moving. The sky was completely light and no other stars were noted. It appeared to move to the southwest towards us and then just suddenly completely disappeared. No other object was there, it was just gone.
October 30, 2023 · 2:43 PM · SPHERE
Veneta, OR
I was standing in front of my house looking up through the oak trees that line the street. I was looking up through the branches on a sunny day with the sun being blocked out by the branches. I was watching pollen, bugs, spider webs, and other Earthly objects moving through the trees. I noticed a white orb moving in a llinear line going from south to north but changing path from flying straith to erratic to stoping and changing directions and moving in ways that none of the other objects I had been watching for ten minutes by the trees was. This ggot my attention so I began to watch just this object (it was near the sun so it was hard to observe without the the tree obscuring the sun. The object stopped as if it new I could see it and I was trying to ascertain the distance to the object (former military with the Cav scouts so I am good at ffiguring out how far away something is) the object imploded on itself and disappeared right before my eyes. The object never mad a sound or left any sort of contrail. The object was moving behind everything else that I was watching.
October 21, 2023 · 9:00 AM · CYLINDER
Klamath Falls, OR
I was sound asleep, probably about nine in the morning and was awakened by a very loud crash noise. I live near a fighter jet training Air Force base so I am used to loud planes flying over quite often - sometimes very low. This noise was much louder!! Honestly, it sounded like a crash. I jumped out of bed and ran to the window and saw what looked like a missile flying by. It was bullet shaped, metallic looking silver gray, and moving quite slow at a very slight decline. It was flying at about my eye level from the house and then disappeared into the trees. I waited to report this because I thought people would think that I am crazy. I have never seen anything like this before in my entire life. I hope this information is helpful.
October 19, 2023 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
My girlfriend picked me up to go to the store. As soon as we started heading south we noticed 3 very bright lights in the sky, flashing colors not typical of aircraft, satellites, planets or stars. I immediately had a gut feeling I knew what it was. Upon driving to the store to get a better view, I noticed they changed positions slightly. Once at the door I was able to locate them again and finally snap a picture with my phone that has 100x zoom. As you can see, the light pattern is not typical of anything usual. I proceeded to try and take video, but my camera can't take video at that zoom level. We went into the store and came out. They were all gone.
October 18, 2023 · 10:35 PM · CHANGING
Portland, OR
In sky above me in SE portland oregon. I first noticed bright light in sky hovering at 10:35pm and when I zoomed in saw it changing shape and size. A streak went across sky from one end of horizon to another. From north to south. A friend an hour away in newburg about same time saw bright light across sky too. I have video and pictures of everything but the streak
October 8, 2023 · 7:37 PM · DISK
Powell Butte, OR
Me and 5 other people saw a disk that looked like a light craft. It was white blue and green. It was in the sky by itself. It sat there for maybe 3 seconds then it got bigger as it moved closer to the house. Then it took off and never came back. We live out in the middle of nowhere where the night sky has no city lights. When we all saw it we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. It looked like a light disk and it got bigger and smaller very quick and then was gone but as it took off you saw it get smaller until it disappeared. It happened very quick.
October 7, 2023 · 9:10 PM · CHEVRON
Springfield, OR
I was observing the night sky for only a few moments, when I noticed motion in my peripheral, to the north and about 80 degrees up from my location in my back yard. It was 12 or more very faint points of light forming a perfect chevron or boomerang. I watched the shape move in a linear constant speed from East to West with no sound. At first I thought it could be birds migrating, given its apparent size and silence from my perspective. But its shape was perfect and its path was perfectly straight. I could detect a shape that was greater than just the points of light as it passed over the stars, again like that of a boomerang or plane wings with no fuselage. From my perspective, if the form were a known aircraft, it would be most similar to a B2 Bomber. However, if it were a conventional aircraft, it would have been no more than 1000 ft above the ground. Which would have produced immense sound. Lastly, the appearance of the shape was mildly streaking or fluid in its motion. Almost like it was passing just below the surface of water. I observed it for 10-15 seconds, starting at approximately due north of my location, until I lost sight of it over the West horizon.
October 6, 2023 · 2:00 AM · FLASH
Madras, OR
Stepped outside pitch dark and I look to my North and I see these bright flashing lights blue red white yellow just blinking for a second I thought it was a plane so I looked up flights around the nearest plane was flying towards pdx plus it was flying by Salem at the moment around 2:15 not headed towards RDM I flashed a bright laser and it moved slowly up and stayed in that position. I checked to see if it was getting closer but it stayed In the same spot blinking brightly no sign of movement stayed looking till 3:00 and no change the same position
October 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, OR
I stayed outside another 15-20 minutes and do not see again and went inside. I contacted my neighbors to see if anyone was flying a drone at 9:08 pm pst, that was right after second siting. Even though it was much higher than a drone, figured my eyes could be deceiving. No one in our rural neighborhood admitted to knowing what it was.
October 4, 2023 · 6:09 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Exited swan mart with 4 year old son. While placing son in car seat, he reports “look at those lights, mama.” I look around parking lot and said, “what lights?” He stated, “No mama, in the sky.” I viewed glimmer lights, about 15 orbs in a V formation, at the same altitude as birds(was low) at onset. Secured son in car seat with tablet to distract, closed door of car. I then took pictures and video for 3-4 min or strange lights. . They were nothing I had seen. No sound or wings observed. The orbs reflected light and were glimmering. Initially, moved north but dissolving into the sky at times, very hard to see. Orbs, reappeared far in the distance (toward the NE) on one occasion briefly, then again dissolved into the clear sky that evening. Reappeared one final time, near the SW and disappeared into the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Birds - Possible]
September 28, 2023 · 3:59 PM · CIRCLE
Milwaukie, OR
In the middle of my swingshift, 6 F-18s flyby over my gas station so I get my camera out to film them. A couple days later I’m reviewing the footage and as it’s in slow motion I see an object dart across the frame passing the planes like they’re frozen still. The object looks to be about a third the size of the planes and the dark shade is the same on both the object and the planes. It’s going so fast, unless you know where to look you won’t see it! [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
September 6, 2023 · 7:43 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalSutherlin, OR
None I have pictures [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
September 6, 2023 · 11:19 AM · CIRCLE
Portland, OR
See above
September 6, 2023 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Slowly moving and hovering over the City for the last hour.
September 6, 2023 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Sherwood, OR
Birderswith long lenses all saw 100% still stationary big white opaquish pill shaped but vertical object by descending moon in perfectly clear blue sky. No clouds. It did not move, unaffected by winds aloft. Jetliner high passes just above it.then vanished in thin air.suddenly not there. Had seen similar but silver over wilsonville in summer 2019 but before it too vanished 2 silver saucers came out one on either side, each circled in a perfectly unearthly motion, also unaffected by the atmosphere or physical and then both in again perfect direct line departed. Nw at a speed too fast for man-made anything. Background lifelong in aviation, no technology that unaffected by the physical, that fast or that most markedly exact precise motion.
September 6, 2023 · 10:55 AM · OVAL
Probable conventionalKeizer, OR
I confirmed seeing an object in the sky. I took some pictures at 3000 mm with a Nikon P1000 camera. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
September 6, 2023 · 10:40 AM · OVAL
Tigard, OR
Glowing white tic tac shaped object been sitting in clear blue sky's for awhile and hasn't moved at all. It is not a planet or star.
September 6, 2023 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Forest Grove, OR
White orb, starlike object sitting still in the sky directly east of the moon. Saw an airplane fly just passed it & it was about the same size.
September 4, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
SPRINGFIELD, OR
My wife noticed the light over the Coburg Hills around 10:30. Oddly enough this is the same location as my 12/10/2022 "chicken coop" sighting documented with nuforc. Light looked strange and behaved very strange. Appeared to he very "glitchy", hopping left and right so quickly it blew my mind, literally at blurring speeds. Some of the videos are crazy. There were at least two others lights lurking around it at times. It's tracking was consistent and slow, but it's micro movements were incomprehensible. It was a shape shifty, highly erratic, multi colored plasma like ball probably at 10,000 feet? Not sure..... If interested the videos are posted on YouTube @sky_phenomenon. This experience is the only reason I made the channel. Photos and video were taken with a s22 ultra, stabilized by our slider door, I used everything from a 1x to 100x zoom. Enjoy.
August 29, 2023 · 7:33 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, OR
Saw steady bright light by the clouds.