NUFORC Sighting 33238

Occurred: 2003-11-01 16:48 Local
Reported: 2003-11-19 15:01 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Portland, OR, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Pink-Orange sphere photographed near downtown Portland, OR

At 4:48pm local time on Saturday, 11-1-2003, I was driving, just crossing over I-5 on the Alberta Street overpass. I looked south and noticed a bright pink-orange stationary round light aligned over a tall building in Portland's downtown. I had a camera with me so I stopped on the overpass. Trying to zoom in to the object, I saw in the viewfinder a very bright "burning ember" uniform light over the full visible area of the object. However I was unable to snap the picture due to underexposure. I reframed at less zoom factor and was able to get the shot, emailed separately, PICT0145-1.jpg. By the time I got the shot, the object had dimmed considerably while shrinking in size, and I was not sure I even got it. The picture has a 10x scaled up blow-up of the object. It was not an airplane or helicopter, the light was too large for that.

When I see things like this, I wait to report to see if anyone else reported it. Turns out between 11-1 and 11-8-2003 there were several other western U.S. sightings of spheres like this object from New Mexico to Seattle.



Posted 2003-11-26

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