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 degr...

Spotted this metallic object in the sky (probably 40,000ft altitude) above Portland, Oregon. For roughly 45 minutes, F-15 jets flew around it at various altitudes, seemingly trying to ID the object. I sent a little drone up to 400ft to help give a little bit better perspective on how high up the unknown object was. I am guessing it was some kind of weather balloon – something of that nature. It slowly drifted Southeast until it disappeared into the sun. Nothing super exciting, but I figured s...