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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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Overall
3.4 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
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Economy
4.4 / 5.0
$88,792 median income, 3.9% unemployment
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Affordability
3.1 / 5.0
$557,600 home value, $1,596/mo rent
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Safety
1.0 / 5.0
545 violent crimes/100K (43% above avg)
A+
Education
5.0 / 5.0
53.5% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings Near Portland, OR
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, 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, 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, orb flashing red, 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, did not behave like an aircraft, then disappeared. Happened twice. |
| Portland, OR | 2013 | Streaking Bright Flash Witnessed over Portland, 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, Oregon. |
| Portland, OR | 2013 | Cluster of bright orange lights floating, 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, 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, disappeared and reappeared three times, and changed shapes. |
| Portland (garden home), OR | 2012 | "Stars" moving around, changing position, and appear to be in a formation. |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Last night walking north on 39th ave, 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, amber, shimmering light in sky above Southeast Portland |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Bright orange light in the sky, 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, 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, leaving orbit on a ballistic trajectory. |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | White/green lights hovering above freeway, 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'clock from the position of the lights was a larger light, which flickered like a planet |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Orange firelike floating slowly along treeline. |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Black teardrop object above Portland, 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, 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, OR |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Siting help |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Interesting yewllow, red and orange lights seen from S.E. Portland, Oregon. |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | I saw a flock of bird shaped objects, about 23, fly within a 5 second period and disappear in the open sky. |
| Portland, OR | 2012 | Approx. 11 pm, 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, 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,y-shaped,triangle,three lights,daytime. |
| 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, 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'm an amateur astronomer and have seen many objects before (satellites, iridium flares, ect.), and these were unusual. |
| Portland, OR | 2011 | 9 Objects, oval in shape |
| Portland, OR | 2011 | Orange glowing, black center wing |
| Portland, OR | 2011 | I saw multiple objects I can not describe last night in Portland, 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, early Thursday morning, 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, 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, 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's 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! |
| 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, Oregon about 9:30 PM |
| Portland, OR | 2010 | The object had a slight amber tint to it. It looked like a satellite, or star, 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, 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, OR, 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, 2009 |
| Portland, OR | 2009 | Silver objects flying near the sun |
| Portland, OR | 2009 | UFO in Portland Oregon Aug 5, 2009 |
| Portland, OR | 2009 | Bright oscillating light in the SW sky. hovered at approximately 10k AGL, 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, 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,m 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, OR, emitting colors and no sound. |
| Portland, OR | 2008 | 4 Large Triangular Objects flying low and silent over tanasbourne area around 7pm 11-13-08, 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, flying much faster than an airplane, orbiting each other. |
| Portland, OR | 2008 | Dual Clusters of unknown objects in the skies of Portland, 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, 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, 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 ,"WOW!" |
| 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, looked like white planets, moved slowly and gradually disappeared. |
| Portland (near), OR | 2006 | Faint transparent rectangle with red & green southwest of Portland, 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, over portland daytime- huge triangle shape craft- defied gravity ,changed shape ,lightning 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 ,over Portland, Or.strange manuvers black-ish very fast. |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Large fast moving White Light headed Northeast in Portland, 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, 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, Oregon |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Two nights after my first encounter I spotted another last night! I was out on my porch watching the stars when one of them moved. The |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Daylight sighting: silent, black diamond flies over Portland, 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 ,hovering over downtown portland, was a white, rather opaque, 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, OR |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | orange lights over Portland OR |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | First time ever seeing these types of glowing objects!! |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | I saw at least six bright glowing, orange in color objects in the sky over the city of Portland on Saturday night, 4-29-06. |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Six fiery, glowing objects, some at a standstill, then all six of them moved very slowly over the city of Portand, Oregon. |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Amber orb lights over downtown Portland. |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Six Red Lights |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | Flashing beam of light,lasted five minutes. |
| Portland, OR | 2006 | It was just starting to get dark on tuesday night. I was walking up the stairwell in my dorm, 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,large than any other aircraft,silent 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, moonish, hovered then moved straight upward |
| Portland, OR | 2005 | On the News Tonight they Reported on channel 12 FOX Portland,Oregon 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, 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, OR |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | Small craft, rapid movement and flight path, no sound. |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | Loud object with three lights. |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | Two stationary bright spots, 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, Portland, 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, hovered, 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񫺔 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, bright fast moving light cross the sky, change color to red, 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! |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | Fast moving round object at night. |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | It was a very large globe-shaped object, very low and very fast, traveling in a very straight line. Color was deep orange-yellow, and |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | Two objects, both red, one appeared to slowly fade, 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, Oregon |
| Portland, OR | 2004 | Weird lights revoling around a center light in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights?? PD)) |