Six Red Lights
My location at this time was overlooking downtown Portland facing NE (Freemont bridge) to SE (Ross Island bridge). Venus was up in the southern sky and there were no sighting opportunities for the international space station. I could not see any military jets, commercial planes, or helicopters (they would have the flashing or strobe lights in the night sky). Conditions were light hazy skies to the horizons with views of constellations above. I saw four red lights moving north to south at a slow speed. The lights traveled in pairs of two. In each pair, one red light angled higher than the other spaced by a degree or two, followed by a larger space (up to 5 degrees), and then followed by the other pair of two. These two pairs of lights did not break their formation and continued south until they vanished from sight. They were as bright as Venus and seem to be around 10 thousand feet. As I was viewing these four objects come and go another pair of two red lights were slowing moving north to south above in or around downtown Portland. These two did seem to slow down couple times or at least move to the west. I viewed this pair for a couple minutes before vanishing in the southern horizon.
There were no objects or lights emitted, no sound, no vapor trail, did not change colors. I did take two pictures which shows one red light in the night time sky and the other shows one red light behind the leaves a of tree.
((NUFORC Note: One of several sighting reports from residents of Portland. PD))
My location at this time was overlooking downtown Portland facing NE (Freemont bridge) to SE (Ross Island bridge). Venus was up in the southern sky and there were no sighting opportunities for the international space station. I could not see any military jets, commercial planes, or helicopters (they would have the flashing or strobe lights in the night sky). Conditions were light hazy skies to the horizons with views of constellations above. I saw four red lights moving north to south at a slow speed. The lights traveled in pairs of two. In each pair, one red light angled higher than the other spaced by a degree or two, followed by a larger space (up to 5 degrees), and then followed by the other pair of two. These two pairs of lights did not break their formation and continued south until they vanished from sight. They were as bright as Venus and seem to be around 10 thousand feet. As I was viewing these four objects come and go another pair of two red lights were slowing moving north to south above in or around downtown Portland. These two did seem to slow down couple times or at least move to the west. I viewed this pair for a couple minutes before vanishing in the southern horizon.
There were no objects or lights emitted, no sound, no vapor trail, did not change colors. I did take two pictures which shows one red light in the night time sky and the other shows one red light behind the leaves a of tree.
((NUFORC Note: One of several sighting reports from residents of Portland. PD))
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Portland
USA
3-5 minutes
3-5 minutes
45.51
-122.66
light
OR
Occurred : 4/29/2006 23:55 (Entered as : 04/29/2006 23:55) Reported: 4/30/2006 10:35:37 AM 10:35 Posted: 5/15/2006 Location: Portland, OR Shape: Light Duration: 3-5 minutes Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object
Six Red Lights