Description

On July 14, 2026, 20 miles west of Portland, Oregon at 12:20 pm, I was doing my normal morning routine after meditating of simply laying on the porch and looking at the sky. I saw a glowing thing going west to east. Figured it was the sun reflecting off a poofy tree seed (sorry don't know what they're called). It was flying very fast and there was no wind so I just assumed there were drifts higher up, but what was really odd was it seemed more like a white line and was flying at about 30 degree angle from the direction of travel and it didn't spin or change angle, not very aerodynamic I thought.


Soon after another flew past, same speed, same path but this time more of a ball shape. I thought it was odd but went back to staring at the sky. Then a third ball shape flew past. I then thought how I'd wished I'd brought my phone out with me. Decided to go in to get it when then I saw a 4th glowing dot/orb heading north to south. This one seemed of higher elevation. I got up and went to get my digital camera and put my glasses on.


Got back outside, switched lenses to my longer lens, and just waited. While I waited I snapped a picture of a helicopter and airplane to test focus. I needed to switch to manual.
Soon the orbs started flying past again.


I took 16 photos in the span of 1 minute and 34 seconds according to the time stamps. In the moment, I only noticed the glowing objects. When I looked at the photos I found the glowing objects were multiple different shapes. I also found a couple objects that did not glow, but noticed them in the pictures after the fact. I understand that is not considered acceptable, however if you look at the top 2 left images you can see why I can't just dismiss them. I was simply focused on the glowing objects and there were multiple and they were flying fast. In the photos I caught 7 different shapes/types of.... objects.

One shape looks like a macron with antennae (caught 2), another like a rectangular doorway of light (3), a dark pillar with light on both sides (2), a completely indescribable shape (2), orbs (many), and another that's a cluster of multiple shapes (1). One being a small triangle and another being....honestly like a fighter space ship you'd see on TV.

YES I am fully aware this sounds crazy.... I barely know how to use this camera, but I watched a video on how to clean up the images so I could get some definition out of them. I've attached the images and cleaned them up as best I can in my amateur skills. My friend suggested this is just stuff in orbit. Maybe.... But what's weird is in the photo's with the plane and helicopter there's no little glowing spots. It's only where the closer up ones show up that there's loads of tiny glowing spots further away. Either space debris travels in clusters, or I caught something very unusual.

The delay in posting from the date was because I didn't have an adapter for my SD card for my camera so I had to wait for it to arrive. While I waited, I seriously started to think I hallucinated it all or something, no history of that but you never know!

All photo's are zoomed in at 400%. I also have the 100% zoom photos and the original RAW images. My background is in STEM, which is why they're documented like this. The files are also named based on a grid system I assigned the photos. I assure you, no AI was used in any way, shape, or form. These are real. I just wanted to confirm they weren't space debris or satellites before reporting a sighting.