UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Salem, OR, USA

I was in the parking lot and happened to look up and saw a bright light (-6 or -7 in magnitude) traveling southeast from approximately

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-13
Where
Salem, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-6 seconds
Geo
44.943, -123.035 · exact
Slug
light-over-salem-or-2005-e06b73
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…

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In context

  • Salem, OR has 170 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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