NUFORC Sighting 55868

Occurred: 2007-03-22 19:00 Local
Reported: 2007-03-22 21:25 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Beaverton, OR, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Multiple cigar shaped objects flying around each other then shooting across the sky.

At around 7:00 pst, my girlfriend and I were outside looking at a rainbow here in Beaverton, Or (Near Portland). We witnessed about 7-8 what I thought were white birds flying around each other at one of the ends of the rainbow. They were flying pretty low, it is very cloudy here. I looked closer and thought, wow they are flying around each other fast, and moving very strange to me. Then 2 of them just shot to the other side of the sky. Didn’t see where the others went, it happened so fast. They appeared to be cigar shaped and metallic. No sound whatsoever was heard. I watch planes fly every single night out here, and have never seen anything fly this fast. We were so dumbfounded. I don’t know if it’s related, but 10 minutes later a very loud jet flow over. We were inside when we heard it. I went out to see if it was a military jet but it was too cloudy to see.

Posted 2007-04-27