1/5/2012: Portland, OR, USA

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Occurred : 1/5/2012 17:00 (Entered as : 01/05/2012 17:00) Reported: 1/6/2012 4:58:37 AM 04:58 Posted: 1/12/2012 Location: Portland, OR Shape: Fireball Duration: 3 secs. Characteristics: The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object
huge ufo breaks thru cloud break on its course to? Me and my wife were outside her sisters house waiting for her brother. There was a clearing to observe the sky from where we were on the street. My wife said hunny look at this and i looked up and saw what looked like a white fireball the size but not the shape of a big 747 plane. We observed it above the clouds as it illuminated them. Brake thru the coulds to where we observed it flying under the coulds and out of site. I hope this is helpful. We were facing south and from our loc. It appeared to be about 600 yards away. The object was also heading west across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the gentleman who submitted this report, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded and objective in his description of the object. Please see similar report from Bend, OR, for the same date. PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 1/5/2012 17:00 (Entered as : 01/05/2012 17:00)
Reported: 1/6/2012 4:58:37 AM 04:58
Posted: 1/12/2012
Location: Portland, OR
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 3 secs.
Characteristics: The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object

huge ufo breaks thru cloud break on its course to?

Me and my wife were outside her sisters house waiting for her brother. There was a clearing to observe the sky from where we were on the street.

My wife said hunny look at this and i looked up and saw what looked like a white fireball the size but not the shape of a big 747 plane.

We observed it above the clouds as it illuminated them. Brake thru the coulds to where we observed it flying under the coulds and out of site.

I hope this is helpful. We were facing south and from our loc. It appeared to be about 600 yards away. The object was also heading west across the sky.

((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the gentleman who submitted this report, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded and objective in his description of the object. Please see similar report from Bend, OR, for the same date. PD))