2019-04-03 - Silverton, OR - Light

White, trailing light observed by multiple witnesses in Oregon

On the night of July 3rd, 2019, I attended a 4th of July fireworks display at The Oregon Gardens with my date, 3 of her sisters, and one of their boyfriends. After the fireworks we were walking back to our vehicles when we decided to stop at the Community Skate Park and hang out and talk etc.

We were lying on our backs in the skate bowl looking up at the sky. The sky was patchy with clouds with the stars visible clearly between the clouds. There was no moon and we were far away from strong sources of light pollution.

After a few minutes my date and I noticed a small speck of white light with what appeared to be a "tail" trailing behind moving against the background of the stars. We both commented that it looked like a single sperm “swimming” among the background of the stars and going behind the clouds seemingly in a random, “searching” pattern; zig-zagging around seemingly aimless. We observed the light for several minutes, not less than 5 and not more than 10 perhaps. There were no flashing lights, and the “object” itself was very faint and difficult to make out and several times we lost it behind a passing cloud only to pick it back up when it emerged on the other side. My date and I and at least one of her sisters witnessed the same phenomena we did but the light was very faint and I am unsure if everyone present was able to positively see the object. Several times we saw definite and easily identifiable airplanes and we were certain that it wasn’t one of them, it appeared to be much “higher” and had no flashing or blinking lights and made no sound that we could make out. At first I took it to possibly be a satellite but I am unaware of any that changed direction like this object did. At some point it went behind a particularly large cloud and we were unable to see it afterward. We were all 100% sober and ranged in age between 16-35.