FORM 112 - MADAR SIGHTING
INFORMATION REPORT
OREGON CITY, OREGON - MAY 15, 2022
I. DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT
May 15, 2022, Oregon City, Oregon
Time: 9:05 PDT (not 9:05 am as shown in NUFORC). Husband and
wife, both 65 years old, were getting ready to retire for the
evening and the wife was looking out her sliding glass doors and
saw a strange object over the trees to the south. It was
strange enough that she called her husband to take a look at it.
At the time, they were not wearing their glasses, so their vision
was not optimal. At one point, they both went to retrieve
their glasses and put them on to see better, but by then the
object was moving off to the north. Investigator was told the
wife’s unaided vision is a little better than the husband’s. The
object had first appeared to their south, over a row of trees that
are about 75 feet tall and about 100 feet from the witnesses’
location. It paused briefly as it passed over a high voltage
power transmission line, then moved toward the witnesses.
Object was described as round, and a bright, fiery orange
color. At one point the object rotated upward, and like the name
"Spaulding" on a basketball, the side facing them moved up on the
sphere and they observed a triangular pattern of round lights on
it. At nearest approach, angular elevation was about 45 degrees,
apparent size was about 2-1/2 inches at arm’s length, and the
distance at closest approach was about 75 to 100 feet.
Estimated altitude was about 100 feet above ground level.
No sound was heard even though it was a very quiet, peaceful
evening. The location is in the country, away from traffic
noise. The witnesses,mature, very ordinary people, felt
sheer amazement and puzzlement about what they were looking
at. The husband is retired, and worked as a landscaper for a
private college in Portland for 30 years. Duration of
sighting: about 2 to 3 minutes. Investigated by MUFON,
disposition unknown aerial vehicle.
II - MADAR DATA
Although there was no code blue alert
until the next day (which would have been the 16th), the printout
for Site 66 at Portland, Oregon, 13 miles to the north, shows
conspicuous readings at the exact time of the Oregon City
incident. The data shows spikes in the magnetometer reading during
the two to three minutes the object was observed. The
readings, one minute apart in milligaus varied from 2.25 to 8.25,
3.0, then up again to 7.5 and back to 3.0. If the MADAR site had
gone to full alert, the device would have ramped up to once per
second. The onboard compass varied from 119.77 degrees to 118.02
to 120.4. The compass variation was almost 3 degrees, which
satisfies MSV (multi-sensor verification). The most important
datalines are the minutes 4:07:18 am to 4:08:18 which converts to
9:07 and 9:08 pm. This is only guessing but it looks like
the UAP had entered Oregon atmosphere right before the wife saw
the object in the south, idled down, then moved again.
III. STATUS OF INVESTIGATION
August 10, 2022 - CIR submitted to NUFORC's Christian Stepien.
Contact information request granted on same day.
August 13, 2022 - FI Tom Bowden investigation conducted for
Oregon MUFON.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
CMS Case 124155. FI Bowden concluded that the witnesses observed a
disk-shaped unknown aerial vehicle (UFO).
At first the craft did not seem be disc-shaped because
it was never described as flat at any point in the narrative.
After talking with the witnesses we were able to determine
that the object was actually spherical, like a basketball, and
slowly rotating, the words "tilted vertically" not being a good
choice. This also cleared up the original claim that some features
were displayed as it turned in the upward rotation. The object
hadn't moved upward, it had "rotated" upward, displaying the
triangular pattern of round lights. The evidence is compelling
that a UAP was observed at Oregon City, and at the same time 13
miles to the north at Portand, MADAR site 66 documented spikes in
its data.
Fran Ridge
MADAR OPERATIONS DIRECTOR