CaseLight1998
Salem, OR, USA
My husband and I were traveling south on I-5 north of Salem when a huge bright light appeared ahead of us mid-sky. It seemed to be ove
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-16
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 sec
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salem-or-1998-6c301e
In context
- Salem, OR shows up 170 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Oregon in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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