NUFORC UFO Sighting 119984
Occurred: 2015-06-24 16:50 Local
Reported: 2015-07-02 21:42 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Other


Liquid metal bus saucer morphs eastward in Oregon sky.

This craft was in the sky moving South East to east. It wasn't shaped like any I've seen before. It was rounded on the top but flat on the bottom and slightly elongated. The movement was fluid, like it morphed forward similar to how a worm moves, but the body rolled forward like liquid rather than being propelled along. It moved faster than a helicopter at the height about where a small plane would fly. I spotted it because I was looking at all the chemtrails they were spraying in the sky that day.

The object moved right to left, there was no sound and no wings on the object. This object seemed to be like a short bus rather than a saucer. There was no lights on the object but the sun was reflecting off it. (This is the second UFO I've spotted in this same section of sky. The first was different looking than this one though and I will file a separate report for that sighting.)

I ran in to grab a camera but got back just in time to see the object vanish behind a cloud. The cloud it went behind was wispy, not the sort of cloud you would think could hide a UFO.

Posted 2015-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119982
Occurred: 2015-06-16 08:05 Local
Reported: 2015-07-02 21:56 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Orb shaped object in south eastern sky over Oregon.

This is the first UFO I ever saw, HOWEVER, I didn't see THIS one with my naked eye. I spotted it later in the pictures I had taken of some chemtrails in the sky.

This craft was in the south-eastern sky. I didn't hear anything at the time. Since I can't tell you anymore than what is in the pictures, I will send them along.

I have WAY less faith in this sighting than my second sighting in the same section of sky 8 days later (report already filed but I don't have pictures of that craft).




NUFORC Note:

Lens flare, caused by pointing a camera at a bright source of light. PD


Posted 2015-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 117221
Occurred: 2015-02-06 07:30 Local
Reported: 2015-02-07 13:21 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Multiple flying objects with lights flashing, that stoped in a specific spot.

The first object seen was fairly large and could easily be mistaken as a helicopter but was soon followed by two more flying objects. They traveled left and circled around a hill for a few minutes. We soon realized they had disappeared.

Then another came from the right and flew to the same hill.

This happened multiple times for about an hour.

Suddenly, three more surrounded the one flying object and they all flew to that same hill. It may have gone longer but I left the scene.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2015-02-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112309
Occurred: 2014-08-09 04:04 Local
Reported: 2014-08-09 04:48 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Animals reacted

Very large bright orb lighting up the entire surroundings. Then suddenly gone.

I woke up because of a bright light out of the window and saw an orb through the trees.

I got up and was looking at it closely. It looked like the moon, but was too low and on the opposite side of the house of where it usually is.

I went through the house looking our several windows to get a better look. It was behind the trees but lighting up the entire yard.

I dismissed it and went back to bed.

A few minutes later the light disappeared.

Posted 2014-08-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101449
Occurred: 2013-08-15 00:14 Local
Reported: 2013-08-22 23:28 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks, MS, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Three bright spheres in triangle formation hovering above horizon. Slowly moved apart while one remained stationary.

At roughly 0:12 on August 15th 2013 I was driving west down Counce Rd. toward Mississippi Hwy. 3, when I slowed down to see if I could pinpoint an odd sound coming from my truck. I rolled the window down to listen for the sound then sped up to see if acceleration had any effect on the noise.

About thirty to forty-five seconds of driving at about 20mph a coyote ran out in front of the truck crossing Counce Rd. headed north causing me to stop. I watched the coyote run down the embankment and into a field. He stopped directly next to a telephone pole.

As I was still stopped looking at the coyote I noticed a light that at first I believed was connected to the pole. About 35 to 40 degrees above the horizon I saw three bright semi-pulsating lights in a triangular formation.

My first thought was they were helicopters in a tight formation. Then I considered airplanes taking off from the Memphis airport. I've lived in Memphis most of my life and am very familiar with the take off/landing patterns of planes as FedEx has their main hub there. This time of night was about right for the first inbound flights of the night. I leaned over to the passenger side window and looked back east and could see planes lined up for landing in the distance...their front main white and red blinking tail and wing lights small but clearly visible. I looked back to the lights still hoovering in the same position and considered that perhaps it was a cellphone tower that was not too far away. I looked east again and spotted the tower blinking red.

At this point I started driving again 20-30mph only taking my eyes off the lights for a few seconds to keep the truck on the road. This is the Delta, and farms are everywhere. There were no obstruction to my visibility and the lights were situated perfectly above one of the fields. I was trying to figure out the distance when what I think was a helicopter passed between the two lower light in a downward angled path, thats when I realized they were either huge, or huge and farther away as the helicopter seemed like only a red blinking speck.

By this time I had reached the intersection of Counce Rd. and MS HWY 3. My view was obstructed for a second or two as I turned right on to HWY.3. I considered trying to take video but figured it would look like every other dark and blurry night shots I'd ever seen. Instead I called my friend...it was exactly 0:14.

Right when she answered the bottom right light shot quickly away to the east and stopped...pulsated different colors for a short time...three seconds at most then began to slowly move east until it completely disappeared. It reminded me of someone turning off a flashlight.

The top and bottom left lights remained in position until I reached the intersection of HWY 3 and Old Mississippi 304/713 when the top light began to slowly pulsate as the first but did not accelerate, instead it appeared to move slowly north or northeast and disappeared as the first did.

Only the bottom left light remained. It did not move. It remained stationary and pulsated as the other two then slowly dimmed and disappeared. I ended the conversation with my friend, and said Id be back shortly.

Last night was perfectly clear and cool, odd for mid-August in Mississippi, so the humidity was low as was the haze. It almost felt like fall.

Before I returned home I made a loop re-driving my route. At 0:42 I stopped the truck again on Counce Rd., but this time got out. There were still planes lined up for landing, but realized that where I had seen the lights were well southeast of the airport. They were perfectly framed by a horizon of trees, cropland, and stars above.

"I cant ((deleted)) believe this!" was on continuous replay in my head, and apparently vocally as well. As my friend related after I returned home, "You kept repeating their formation, movements, and the pulsating white, blue, and green lights...and I cant ((deleted)) believe this.

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81773
Occurred: 2011-06-13 21:00 Local
Reported: 2011-06-14 15:25 Pacific
Duration: 5 MIN


Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

LARGE WHITE BALL OF WHITE LIGHT HOVERING OVER NEAR CEDAR CANYON RD AND HWY 6 AREA OF BANKS, OREGON.

WHEN APPROACHED BY A JET IT LEFT IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION FASTER THAN ANYTHING MAN MADE I KNOW OF.

Posted 2011-06-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59320
Occurred: 2007-10-19 15:00 Local
Reported: 2007-10-19 15:37 Pacific
Duration: 8 Seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Left a trail

SR-71's over Washington County? I dont think so!

Just after 3:00pm today, I was smoking a cigarette with a good friend and burning paper garbage outside, when what I thought was thunder clapping overhead, I looked up and saw two extremely fast moving objects together pass right over my house at just under cloud cover (pretty high).

The thunder noise, like a sonic boom lasted about 7 seconds afterwards then nothing except faint brown trails.

With my extensive knowledge on aviation, I'd say they looked alot like SR-71's, but I know for a fact that, that aircraft is no-longer flying and wouldn't be flying under cloud cover this time of day even if it were.

Has anyone else seen these?

Posted 2007-11-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32166
Occurred: 2003-10-08 18:00 Local
Reported: 2003-10-10 10:42 Pacific
Duration: few seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks (outside of), AL, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Large disk shape moving across the sky, then dissappers

It was at about 6:00pm and it was still sunny and few clouds.I was observing a few jets,noticing the exhaust stream and looked to the left and it looked sort of like a huge 747 shape on the front but narrower in the back it was a battleship gray color.I had to look twice and it was only there for a few seconds maybe 4 or 5.I was fixing to ask someone with me what they thought it was and it just vanished.The jets i saw were way off but this was closer and bigger.The direction of the craft was east.

Posted 2003-10-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25146
Occurred: 2002-09-19 11:00 Local
Reported: 2002-09-19 12:45 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

Wing shaped UFO spotted above the Banks city area.

It was hovering about 2 miles away at a pretty high altitude. I thought it was a B-2, or one of those old Flying Wings, but it was hovering in a still.

It looked alot like a B-2, it was blackish dark grey. It hovered for about 1 minute, then it sharply shot forward and then slowed down to a stop. It then hovered for about another minute and then it shot up at an angle into the sky and dissapeared.

I saw a ufo when I was 10 years old, but I havent been looking for them since. I have a major knowledge of aviation so, I can tell the differences between aircraft made in this world, and I know that wasnt something I've ever heard of or seen before. I dont know if it was making any noise due to a Cessna flying circles over head.

I called the Hillsboro Airport (our local airfield) and they said that they were not tracking anything in that direction, but they said that it was probabally a military jet from the Portland Airbase. Yeah right, the base only has F-15s as their jets, and they wouldnt be flying a jet that could do what this did around here... This was a UFO.

Posted 2002-09-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23858
Occurred: 2002-06-01 22:00 Local
Reported: 2002-07-22 01:56 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Banks, OR, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Lights during road trip as phoned into OUFOR.

6/01/2002 10:00 p.m. Near Banks, OR.

A report was phoned into the OUFOR hotline and later submitted to the Review involving night time light activity seen by a man while traveling from Beaverton to Vernonia. Just after leaving a development area near Banks, the man noticed two unusual lights straight ahead just left of the road and hanging low to the ground. The brightness of one of them really stuck out. As the highway curved slightly to the right the lights stayed to the left side of the road the whole time. After driving for over ten minutes having these two lights within sight, the witness reports feeling as if the objects may have been as much as a mile apart from each other.

The witness writes..." The light I could see looked huge for the distance I saw it from. The white light was facing me and appeared to be heading in the same direction I was driving. It did not blink. I didn't think it was a plane. After passing the Texaco on my left, I got to the Hwy. 47 turnoff to Vernonia, pulled onto the Hwy. 26/47 intersection and out of the car. I could still see these lights right next to a street light in front of me. The brighter light was brighter than the street lamp. To get an idea on the distance between these two lights, I put my arm all the way out and they were two fingers wide. I then got out my binoculars for a closer look and was amazed to see the brighter light was red toward the top. It also looked flat on it's right side, and was pointed on the left side. It looked like it was divided between a top middle and bottom section. I couldn't tell if the brighter light was connected at all to the one two fingers away to the left of it. I couldn't see the same details with the light on the left as I did with the brighter light on the right. I took several pictures with an HP215 Digital Camera (it has 1.3mega pixel resolution)." This witness has agreed to share what pictures he has and we will post them with this sighting when we get them.




NUFORC Note:

We express our gratitude to Eric Byler and Skip Schultz, of Oregon UFO Research, for following up on the case, and sharing the information with NUFORC. PD


Posted 2002-07-26