Salem, OR, USA
Seeing a light traveling due north from directly overhead at a slow pace, it suddenly flared up incredibly bright and then just went ou
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-18
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-salem-or-2005-d23da8
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Salem, OR has 170 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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