Salem, OR, USA
Observed slowly moving white light at 10:40 pm heading north from direcly overhead
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-02
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salem-or-2005-bdeb11
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 shows up 170 times across the archive.
- 108 reports came from Oregon in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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