SIGHTING: PORTLAND, OREGON (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"At approximately 4:45. it caught my attention because i was watching an airplane adjacent to it, and it presented a static referenced point, i.E. appearance of hovering. as time went on (30 minutes) it moved slowly east and south out of my view. at first i thought it was a mylar balloon or drone, so i went and got my binocs and in the closer look it appeared to be several mylar balloons connected. it appeared large and at high altitude rotating counter-clockwise. a plane flew by in the foreground of my binocs and that point of reference startled me because i could get a sense of scale. stupidly, i went for the binocs rather than the camera because initially i thought it was a balloon or drone. it "flashed" or "pulsed" white light. eventually i got my camera and long lens, while being able to see it with my eyeballs, the waning afternoon light made it hard to capture in the viewfinder, and i did not get a shot of the object. i promptly went inside and sketched what i saw in the binocs. i ruled out conventional balloon aircraft, because of it's slow southeasterly movement and a pretty good breeze today, which would have conventional balloons moving differently. it's movement was really more akin to a helicopter, only appearing to be at a higher altitude than choppers. another aspect of it's strangeness was it was rotating counter-clockwise the whole time i observed."