Salem, OR, USA
My mom woke me up around 9:30 ish and told me to "come look at this ufo hurry." Went outside and it looked like a super brigh
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-29
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salem-or-2020-afdf9a
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…
Local cluster
Salem, OR logged 3 reports in the single month of April 2020.
In context
- One of 170 documented reports from Salem, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 237 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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