UFOMYST
CaseChanging2015

Salem, OR, USA

Christmas was just over, I stepped out to smoke in the cold, I focused on a bright star that seemed to b flickering, I lost contact.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-12-25
Where
Salem, OR, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
44.943, -123.035 · exact
Slug
changing-over-salem-or-2015-712cd6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 170 reports logged in Salem, OR.
  • This case is one of 215 Oregon reports filed in 2015.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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