A family in Oregon was left shaken after a mysterious, seemingly translucent object hovered outside their home and sent intense beams of light through a bedroom window before disappearing.
In testimony published by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), the witness described the object as “silver in color with a distorted, see-through surface, two really big lights and no distinct shape.”
The incident reportedly began at about 8pm at a home in Wilsonville. The witness, identified as “S,” said she had been sitting on the back patio when she noticed something unusual in the sky.
“I noticed what looked like something I’ve never seen fall out of the sky. Almost like a bird was shot dead in the air and plummeted,” S told NUFORC.
“The object went from looking rectangular to a large ball, then a small ball in a matter of a blink. I pointed it out to my partner and daughter: ‘There’s something falling out of the sky!’”
According to the report, the couple’s 12-year-old daughter later ran from her bedroom at 9.14pm after bright lights flashed across the room. When her parents rushed in, they saw a huge object hovering outside the window, with lights directed toward the house.
“Thankfully, my 12-year-old was able to get a pic of it while it was happening,” S said.
S said she felt “nauseous” and experienced “balance issues” after the sighting. Her daughter suffered intermittent headaches during the night, although both felt better the following day.
The 12-year-old captured an image of the object, which she said flew close to her bedroom window and directed a beam of light inside
The incident took place on August 25, 2026, and S reported it to NUFORC later that same day.
She told NUFORC investigator Keith Bickford that the object initially appeared rectangular and dropped from the night sky as though it had been “shot out of thin air.”
The object then rapidly changed shape, becoming what S described as a “giant ball” with a “peculiar” trail behind it.
“It had a stream following behind it that looked like smoke? But not smoke,” S said.
S, her partner and their daughter hurried back to the room, where they found “this big object floating still pointed directly towards” their home.
“It hovered there for almost a minute and then just disappeared! My daughter was looking at it before she got us and said it looked like it was see-through silver when it got close,” the witness reported.
The daughter said she noticed the object first and called for her parents to come and see it.
She estimated that it was as wide as three airplanes and said its apparent nose was angled upward.
NUFORC also published details of another unexplained October incident involving pilots over Ohio who reported seeing a strange object near their aircraft, despite no corresponding radar return
In his report, Bickford wrote: “I contacted two farmers with property in the area and both used drones day and night for crop care, but none of the drones were close to the size stated in this report.
“Both the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and the Wilsonville Police Department had no UAP or UFO reports for that evening. FlightRadar24 showed nothing. I am classifying this as an anomalous sighting.”
NUFORC also described a separate unexplained encounter in October, when pilots flying over Ohio reported seeing an unusual object near their aircraft. They were later told that nothing unidentified appeared on radar.
One of the pilots photographed the object and later discussed the encounter with NUFORC investigator Ben Hansen. The sighting occurred on August 16.
“The surface was silver and highly reflective, like pure polished metal,” the investigator’s report states. The pilot was identified only as “J.”
“J described the UAP as uniform, pill-shaped. There were no warps or creases on the surface, nor was it tapered at the bottom,” Hansen wrote.
NUFORC released a CGI reconstruction of the pill-shaped object based on the witness’s description
The crew reported seeing no other aircraft on their collision-warning system or flight-tracking app. Cleveland Center air traffic controllers also told them that neither aircraft nor unidentified objects were appearing on radar, according to the report.
J suspected that the object may have emerged from thunderstorm clouds the pilots were attempting to pass between.
He questioned whether a balloon could have endured those conditions, noting that the aircraft itself encountered engine icing and moderate turbulence after entering the clouds.
NUFORC said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) detected no object on radar and found no database records matching planned balloon launches.
“Coupled with the witness’s estimate that the object was at least 30 feet in height and uniformly shaped without tapering at the top or bottom, it presents some challenges to the balloon theory,” Hansen wrote in the report.