Oregon weird extends beyond Portland. It even extends to congress holding hearings https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/us/politics/ufo-sightings-house-hearing.html. I think the Senate Intelligence Committee is more intelligent than their counterparts in the House. The House Intelligence Committee Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation is having their hearing Tuesday. Maybe it is an expression of counterintelligence?
The annual UFO Festival lands in McMinville. The whole website is a wild read.
The Oregon UFO Festival in McMinnville Oregon https://ufofest.com/ 10:30 Friday - 11PM Saturday, with a UFO breakfast Sunday Free-$125 for an all parallel universe pass.