Chrome Orange light circles campsite
My girlfriend, my two sons, and her two sons were camping in the Mt. Hood National Forrest SW of Mt Hood near mile marker 8 on Hiway 58 at the end of a 1/2 mile logging spur. We had just put the children to bed and were preparing to sleep in the back of my truck. It was a cloudless moonless night from our perspective. looking towrds the SE at the mountains a 'silver orange' or 'chrome orange' ball popped up from behind the mountain range and made a very slow circle around our camp at an altitude of aproximately 5-6 K ft. The object moved from the SE to the East and then headed to the NW, then to the NE and then popped back down below the mountains. It made no noise and moved as if it were drunk - it jerked back and forth and wiggled a bit. It appeared to be about the size of the end of a pencil held at arms legnth. The beginining and ending of its journey was very strange because it looked as if it was on a spring.
I turned off our coleman lantern during its flight so it would not spot us and so I could see it better.
We had seen a small private single engine propeller plane about a 1/2 hour before that went from east to west.
((NUFORC FOLLOW-UP))
--- Peter Davenport
My girlfriend, my two sons, and her two sons were camping in the Mt. Hood National Forrest SW of Mt Hood near mile marker 8 on Hiway 58 at the end of a 1/2 mile logging spur. We had just put the children to bed and were preparing to sleep in the back of my truck. It was a cloudless moonless night from our perspective. looking towrds the SE at the mountains a 'silver orange' or 'chrome orange' ball popped up from behind the mountain range and made a very slow circle around our camp at an altitude of aproximately 5-6 K ft. The object moved from the SE to the East and then headed to the NW, then to the NE and then popped back down below the mountains. It made no noise and moved as if it were drunk - it jerked back and forth and wiggled a bit. It appeared to be about the size of the end of a pencil held at arms legnth. The beginining and ending of its journey was very strange because it looked as if it was on a spring.
I turned off our coleman lantern during its flight so it would not spot us and so I could see it better.
We had seen a small private single engine propeller plane about a 1/2 hour before that went from east to west.
((NUFORC FOLLOW-UP))
--- Peter Davenport
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Goverment Camp
USA
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5 minutes
light
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Occurred : 8/26/2000 23:30 (Entered as : 08/24/00 23:30) Reported: 10/8/2001 12:03:53 PM 12:03 Posted: 10/12/2001 Location: Goverment Camp, OR Shape: Light Duration: 5 minutes Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Chrome Orange light circles campsite