CaseLight2022

salem, OR, USA

A cat set of my security camera so I was checking it out when I saw a light that was following the cat.

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2022-04-02
Where
salem, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
One minute
Geo
44.943, -123.035 · exact
Slug
light-over-salem-or-2022-2f76b7
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…

In context

  • One of 170 documented reports from salem, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 29 sightings in 2022.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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