Portland, OR

Oregon · Multnomah County · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro Metro

Portland is a major city in Oregon with a population of 642,715. Residents earn $88,792 per year, which is 18% above the national average.

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642,715 Population 4,815/sq mi density

$88,792 Median Income $55,312 per capita

$557,600 Home Value $524,251 Zillow

$1,596 Median Rent 30.6% income on rent

54°F Avg Temperature 235 sunny days/yr

545 Violent Crime/100K 5,203 property/100K

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Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education

Economy

4.4 / 5.0

$88,792 median income, 3.9% unemployment

Affordability

3.1 / 5.0

$557,600 home value, $1,596/mo rent

Safety

1.0 / 5.0

545 violent crimes/100K (43% above avg)

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Education

5.0 / 5.0

53.5% bachelor's degree or higher

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200 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Portland, OR.

Name	Year	Description
Portland (northeast area), OR	2014	((HOAX??)) Bright orb growing in size and then shrinking.
Portland, OR	2014	Red/Orange Blinking orb over the North/Northwestern sky in Portland Oregon
Portland, OR	2014	I was sitting in my family room watching the tv. We have high ceilings in the family room with windows and can see the sky. All of a
Portland, OR	2014	An odd white light streaked briefly overhead and then disappeared. Looked like it was on a diagonal path. Lasted only 3 seconds&#44 but wa
Portland, OR	2014	Red flashing dots witnessed by 5 people 2 in Hillsboro. lasted over a hour and is still going on as if 2:03 AM..
Portland, OR	2014	White orb that was bright fading in and out slowly moving across the sky.
Portland, OR	2014	Sphere - Multiple Colors - Sporadic Movement - During Lunar Eclipse.
Portland, OR	2014	Slow moving red orb&#44 multidirectional.
Portland, OR	2014	Bright star light opject moving slowly in a giggling motion across the sky Miller/Barnes rd Portland Oregon.
Portland, OR	2014	White light moved across the sky at an unbelievable speed.
Portland, OR	2014	Three orange glowing lights in the eastern sky.
Portland, OR	2014	Bright red orb over N. Portland.
Portland, OR	2014	Very fast moving object with red and blue lights.
Portland (southeast of), OR	2013	Strange constant set of lights moving East to West over inner SE portland skyline
Portland, OR	2013	Three bright white lights in a triangular formation.
Portland, OR	2013	Four Lights/Objects in Night Sky Over Portland
Portland, OR	2013	Bright ball of light in the sky over Portland.
Portland, OR	2013	2 orange circles flying at a slow pase then disappeared.
Portland, OR	2013	Green lit object over Portland changing direction.
Portland, OR	2013	Blue/white light streaks across western horzion.
Portland, OR	2013	Firey light&#44 orb flashing red&#44 retro rocket flying backwards.
Portland, OR	2013	Moving object resembling a star makes sweeping turn before disappearing.
Portland, OR	2013	Light seen in northern sky&#44 did not behave like an aircraft&#44 then disappeared. Happened twice.
Portland, OR	2013	Streaking Bright Flash Witnessed over Portland&#44 Oregon.
Portland, OR	2013	Large orange light.
Portland, OR	2013	4 red pulsing lights fly over Portland.
Portland, OR	2013	Just about ready to pull into my driveway when I spotted three orange fireball like objects west of our location. I told my wife what
Portland, OR	2013	Bright white object turned reddish-orange and switched direction at 45 degree angle at high altitude and speed.
Portland, OR	2013	Yellowish/orange spheres portland Oregon.
Portland, OR	2013	Three triangular bright orange light objects hovering low in the sky: Portland&#44 Oregon.
Portland, OR	2013	Cluster of bright orange lights floating&#44 jumping around in sky
Portland, OR	2013	Light? Fireball?
Portland, OR	2013	Phoenix type lights pdx.
Portland, OR	2013	Before seeing this formation we saw two flashes of light at our zenith&#44 and they were not iridium flares.
Portland, OR	2013	Silent white-lighted oval orb followed at distace by smaller reddish object.
Portland, OR	2013	I walked outside to my patio and looked to the east I saw a falling star and then a very bright blinking light surrounded by a haze. Co
Portland, OR	2013	V shape formation of 5 soft white lights
Portland, OR	2013	Orange fireball hovers over southeast Portland than disappears
Portland, OR	2013	Saw Oct 3 2013 total of 15 craft with 5 lower than the others going in counterclock with 4 vertical rows of lights semi circ nose.
Portland, OR	2013	Strange light over Portland.
Portland, OR	2013	I observed the following by eye & through binoculars.Whilst watching the New Years Fireworks from my 2nd story which affords me a g
Portland, OR	2013	White light hovering place&#44 disappeared and reappeared three times&#44 and changed shapes.
Portland (garden home), OR	2012	"Stars" moving around&#44 changing position&#44 and appear to be in a formation.
Portland, OR	2012	Last night walking north on 39th ave&#44 my father and I witnessed at least 100 red orbs that flashed coming from the west over the city o
Portland, OR	2012	Orange and yellow orb over portland moved northeast.
Portland, OR	2012	Bright&#44 amber&#44 shimmering light in sky above Southeast Portland
Portland, OR	2012	Bright orange light in the sky&#44 moves fast and disappears.
Portland, OR	2012	Early morning orange orb sighting in the Portland Metro area
Portland, OR	2012	White/green lights hovering above freeway&#44 shot straight upward
Portland, OR	2012	Green orb
Portland, OR	2012	Point of light heading SE in trajectory disappeared completely as if it receded into space&#44 leaving orbit on a ballistic trajectory.
Portland, OR	2012	White/green lights hovering above freeway&#44 disappeared after enter/leaving tunnel
Portland, OR	2012	Curious to know what is going on.
Portland, OR	2012	Huge ufo breaks thru cloud break on its course to?
Portland, OR	2012	Three horizontal lights and at about one o&#39clock from the position of the lights was a larger light&#44 which flickered like a planet
Portland, OR	2012	Orange firelike floating slowly along treeline.
Portland, OR	2012	Black teardrop object above Portland&#44 OR
Portland, OR	2012	Three red lights in triangle formation
Portland, OR	2012	Five orbs floating low in sky. ((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether the lights might have been advertising lights. PD))
Portland, OR	2012	Extremely bright object in southern sky. - Portland.
Portland, OR	2012	Watched an Orange firery object in the sky.
Portland, OR	2012	Slowly moved across the sky from w to e over SE Portland. Bright light. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of the ISS. PD))
Portland, OR	2012	I was jogging alone along a path at Gabriel Park&#44 when I noticed a collection of red and green lights hovering in the sky that seemed t
Portland, OR	2012	2-3 colored lights on one craft swooping gracefully in irregular pattern looking west/nw from North Portland&#44 OR
Portland, OR	2012	Siting help
Portland, OR	2012	Interesting yewllow&#44 red and orange lights seen from S.E. Portland&#44 Oregon.
Portland, OR	2012	I saw a flock of bird shaped objects&#44 about 23&#44 fly within a 5 second period and disappear in the open sky.
Portland, OR	2012	Approx. 11 pm&#44 A friend and I were walking on Se Morrison on 28th when We noticed a hovering orange light in the sky slowly descending
Portland, OR	2012	Oval shaped hovering object outside of Portland Oregon.
Portland, OR	2012	Fireballs seen south of Portland&#44 OR area.
Portland, OR	2012	Fireball with black rotating band sighted in SE Portland near Hawthorne 5/5/12
Portland, OR	2011	Large neon blueish bright white light flying and hovering in all directions in NE Portland.
Portland, OR	2011	T-shaped&#44y-shaped&#44triangle&#44three lights&#44daytime.
Portland, OR	2011	I believe it was July 6 of 2011 I had just gotten off of work. I was driving down W Burnside Rd&#44 in the west hills facing NE going arou
Portland, OR	2011	Many white lights/objects moving at high speeds throughout the day.
Portland, OR	2011	Started looking like a shooting star but then shot into triangle and went "dot dot dot into bigger ones and shot into the sky" and then
Portland, OR	2011	Two Black Drone-Like Objects Over Portland Metro Area
Portland, OR	2011	Bright Orange Sphere Formation Seen From Downtown Portland.
Portland, OR	2011	I&#39m an amateur astronomer and have seen many objects before (satellites&#44 iridium flares&#44 ect.)&#44 and these were unusual.
Portland, OR	2011	9 Objects&#44 oval in shape
Portland, OR	2011	Orange glowing&#44 black center wing
Portland, OR	2011	I saw multiple objects I can not describe last night in Portland&#44 Oregon around midnight.
Portland, OR	2011	Yellow/Orange light ball with blinking lights over Sauvie Island
Portland, OR	2011	moving star without blinking?
Portland, OR	2011	bright light that looked like a satellite then shoots straight up leaving a streak behind momentarily
Portland, OR	2011	Was up late Wednesday night&#44 early Thursday morning&#44 and went out to the alley behind my apartment in Northwest Portland (Around NW 23r
Portland, OR	2011	I was looking up at the moon facing South from my Southeast Portland front porch&#44 when I saw some red and green lit object almost float
Portland, OR	2011	5-7 pulsating amber-orange orbs observed slowly moving below the clouds from west to east above Portland&#44 OR.
Portland, OR	2011	Orange glowing bell shaped object moving from east to southeast.
Portland, OR	2011	Orange orbs seemingly attached to triangular object witnessed in Portland Oregon 10/18/2011
Portland city, OR	2010	Orange sphere floated up-hill at tremendes speed.
Portland, OR	2010	Strange orange lights in the sky
Portland, OR	2010	On the morning of Wednesday April 28 I was staying at a friend&#39s house in SW portland and we had been up all night having a conversatio
Portland, OR	2010	I observed a strange glowing orange ball floating in the sky in a straight path that made no sound.
Portland, OR	2010	Real UFO Caught On Video 08/15/2010
Portland, OR	2010	Planet Sized Orb Passes Behind Venus Then FLICKers Out&#33
Portland, OR	2010	disk in the sky in the middle of the day
Portland, OR	2010	2 sightings of a ufo in a 3 month time frame in PDX
Portland, OR	2010	850 pm fast craft over portland qr
Portland, OR	2010	saw & filmed a pulsating diamond shaped object which changed shape several times over Portland&#44 Oregon about 9:30 PM
Portland, OR	2010	The object had a slight amber tint to it. It looked like a satellite&#44 or star&#44 but then it started to change directions. Almost like a
Portland, OR	2010	Multiple lights. Red in color. Seen in SE portland. Toward SW portland. About 8 or so. Faded in and out of sight.
Portland, OR	2010	White light traveling silently across the night sky in 8-10 secs&#44 leaving no trail
Portland, OR	2009	Red and white floating object suddenly and extremely rapidly zips away.
Portland, OR	2009	Two cops observed four strange lights over Portland&#44 OR&#44 and one of the lights appeared to "drip" a molten substance.
Portland, OR	2009	Triangle shaped object flying across Portland Oregon at 12:15 pm Wednesday Aug 5&#44 2009
Portland, OR	2009	Silver objects flying near the sun
Portland, OR	2009	UFO in Portland Oregon Aug 5&#44 2009
Portland, OR	2009	Bright oscillating light in the SW sky. hovered at approximately 10k AGL&#44 then left
Portland, OR	2009	We witnessed 7 orange spheres moving north to south over portland oregon
Portland, OR	2009	Three egg like ships on my street
Portland, OR	2009	Point of light traveling at high altitude with intervals of "flaring".
Portland, OR	2009	bright white light moving erratically leaving light trails
Portland, OR	2009	The three bright lights over Tanasbourne&#44 Oregon
Portland, OR	2008	the object was very illuminated in the night sky much brighter then the brightest star in the dipper it was passing by.
Portland, OR	2008	3 bright white lights in traingular formation with no sound and in seemingly fixed pos.. ((NUFORC Note: 3 planets in sw sky. PD))
Portland, OR	2008	A bright light from no conventional aircraft behaves erraticly and moves at high speeds
Portland, OR	2008	Oregon 7:15 p&#44m disk seen 5-10 seconds
Portland, OR	2008	Something was flying over downtown Portland on August 6th
Portland, OR	2008	Stationary yellow-white ball of light over Portland&#44 OR&#44 emitting colors and no sound.
Portland, OR	2008	4 Large Triangular Objects flying low and silent over tanasbourne area around 7pm 11-13-08&#44 Dim orange circles underneath.
Portland, OR	2008	odd orb on horizon at sunset
Portland, OR	2008	gold cylindrical object with red top and bottom. Tumbles head over head at high altitiude.
Portland, OR	2008	Two faint pinpricks of light&#44 flying much faster than an airplane&#44 orbiting each other.
Portland, OR	2008	Dual Clusters of unknown objects in the skies of Portland&#44 Oregon.
Portland, OR	2007	bright lights
Portland, OR	2007	Earth shaking explosion followed by bluish green glow on hill above home.
Portland, OR	2007	Bright sun-illuminated "dot" drifting over S.E. Portland&#44 Oregon
Portland, OR	2007	fast moving object that was gone when i looked down to get phone
Portland, OR	2007	Bright Light heading SE over PDX
Portland, OR	2007	Bright&#44 Disappearing Object in Portland Night-Sky
Portland, OR	2007	Craft with tan "X" on the bottom. Seen on 5 different occasions in 5 months.
Portland, OR	2007	From the heart a rare and ever so &#44"WOW&#33"
Portland, OR	2007	2 very small white spheres hovered in same general area for 30 minutes
Portland, OR	2007	Glowing orange triangular object with orbs in each corner travelling south to north
Portland, OR	2007	Drifting silent object estimated size of helicopter at 1000ft with bright flamelike intermittent flashes in night sky
Portland, OR	2007	Blue flash and hovering white sphere in Portland Oregon
Portland, OR	2007	7 craft appeared in the SE bright sunny day lit sky over Oregon&#44 looked like white planets&#44 moved slowly and gradually disappeared.
Portland (near), OR	2006	Faint transparent rectangle with red & green southwest of Portland&#44 Oregon.
Portland, OR	2006	I was sitting outside on my porch after midnight. As I sat there I looked out above my neighbors house to see two stars about an inch a
Portland, OR	2006	Black dash near moon around 6 pm on the 4th of july in Se Portland near Mt. Tabor.
Portland, OR	2006	3-5-06&#44 over portland daytime- huge triangle shape craft- defied gravity &#44changed shape &#44lightning fast.
Portland, OR	2006	Object seen east of Portland Airport at 1:25pm Moving steadily south and level
Portland, OR	2006	Large triangle craft daytime &#44over Portland&#44 Or.strange manuvers black-ish very fast.
Portland, OR	2006	Large fast moving White Light headed Northeast in Portland&#44 Oregon
Portland, OR	2006	Metallic Spherical object(s) in sky above downtown Portland Oregon this evening.
Portland, OR	2006	A bright light that raced across the sky and suddenly shot upward and dissapeared.
Portland, OR	2006	brght blue flashing disc
Portland, OR	2006	Bright Aqua ball of Light over Hillsboro&#44 Oregon - viewed from Cornelius Pass - Danced in the sky
Portland, OR	2006	Large glowing red orb
Portland, OR	2006	Strange Diamond shaped object seen in Portland&#44 Oregon
Portland, OR	2006	Two nights after my first encounter I spotted another last night&#33 I was out on my porch watching the stars when one of them moved. The
Portland, OR	2006	Daylight sighting: silent&#44 black diamond flies over Portland&#44 Or
Portland, OR	2006	Video taped a Black vibrating object near contrail
Portland, OR	2006	The UFO that I saw at 1 PM thursday the 27th of april 2006 &#44hovering over downtown portland&#44 was a white&#44 rather opaque&#44 imperfect cir
Portland, OR	2006	saw lite in sky at midnite on 29 april
Portland, OR	2006	7 orange "fireballs" in two groups over downtown Portland&#44 OR
Portland, OR	2006	orange lights over Portland OR
Portland, OR	2006	First time ever seeing these types of glowing objects&#33&#33
Portland, OR	2006	I saw at least six bright glowing&#44 orange in color objects in the sky over the city of Portland on Saturday night&#44 4-29-06.
Portland, OR	2006	Six fiery&#44 glowing objects&#44 some at a standstill&#44 then all six of them moved very slowly over the city of Portand&#44 Oregon.
Portland, OR	2006	Amber orb lights over downtown Portland.
Portland, OR	2006	Six Red Lights
Portland, OR	2006	Flashing beam of light&#44lasted five minutes.
Portland, OR	2006	It was just starting to get dark on tuesday night. I was walking up the stairwell in my dorm&#44 and noticed a strange bright white light
Portland, OR	2005	30+ spheres observed flying in formation during thunderstorm due to large multiple lighting flashes.
Portland, OR	2005	High altitude&#44large than any other aircraft&#44silent and no marker lights or st
Portland, OR	2005	Very bright light traveling over Portland ((NUFORC Note: International Space Station. PD))
Portland, OR	2005	a bright object&#44 moonish&#44 hovered then moved straight upward
Portland, OR	2005	On the News Tonight they Reported on channel 12 FOX Portland&#44Oregon News ad some type of sighting of a "light that flashed" was very br
Portland, OR	2005	highly-reflective inverted black teardrop over a Portland evening
Portland, OR	2005	I was riding in the passenger seat of my best friends car my fiance in the backseat behind me&#44 when i noticed a large black shadow over
Portland, OR	2005	Triangle floated away.
Portland, OR	2005	Three amber/orange objects patrol Portland skyline
Portland, OR	2005	05/03/05 23:30hours. the we seen in portland Oregon It moved from north to south and vanished.
Portland, OR	2005	slow moving object over north west portland oregon
Portland, OR	2005	((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)) Saw a blue flaming asteroid shaped object. there was a weird blue glow around it.
Portland, OR	2005	Orange disk-like orbs over Downtown Portland. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Portland, OR	2005	Three reddish lights seen over Pearl District of Portland&#44 OR
Portland, OR	2004	Small craft&#44 rapid movement and flight path&#44 no sound.
Portland, OR	2004	Loud object with three lights.
Portland, OR	2004	Two stationary bright spots&#44 fading simultaniously for no apparent reason becoming very diim spots of light.
Portland, OR	2004	A bright red object flying in the sky above our heads just above the trees
Portland, OR	2004	Object seen in sky traveling from southwest to northeast. Silver/white in color with no visible wings and approximately 1000-1500 feet
Portland, OR	2004	Object Hovering Near Jet-Trails 4/30/04&#44 Portland&#44 Or.
Portland, OR	2004	Four lobed blue-black object seen moving south at dusk
Portland, OR	2004	Circular shaped space craft moved slowly in the sky&#44 hovered&#44 then shot off. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly not a serious report. PD))
Portland, OR	2004	At approx 5:30 AM I looked out my window and saw a large yellowish light in a circular form. It almost looked like a bright city lamp
Portland, OR	2004	Around 11:10 p.m. on July 22&#442004 my boyfriend and I were out watching satelites on our front lawn. As I looked to my right I exclaime
Portland, OR	2004	Spouse and I saw a silent&#44 bright fast moving light cross the sky&#44 change color to red&#44 then fade completely away.
Portland, OR	2004	Circular shaped light travels quickly across sky in suburbs.
Portland, OR	2004	Sphere Cluster Drops Orb Down to Ground
Portland, OR	2004	Object seen in sky over Downtown Portland Oregon moving very slowly coming from N.E. Direction to S.W. direction. Appeared silver in c
Portland, OR	2004	7 very fast moving lights over Portland Oregon&#33
Portland, OR	2004	Fast moving round object at night.
Portland, OR	2004	It was a very large globe-shaped object&#44 very low and very fast&#44 traveling in a very straight line. Color was deep orange-yellow&#44 and
Portland, OR	2004	Two objects&#44 both red&#44 one appeared to slowly fade&#44 the other moved out of view behind trees in a quick stop/start motion.
Portland, OR	2004	across the sky faster than most anything
Portland, OR	2004	Dark Cylinder/ Rectangular flying object dips in and out of low clouds over Portland&#44 Oregon
Portland, OR	2004	Weird lights revoling around a center light in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights?? PD))

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