Salem, OR, USA
The power just went out for about 1min. Then came back on. I went out side to investigate and instantly noticed a flashing in the sky.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-25
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-salem-or-2018-879a17
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
- This is one of 170 reports logged in Salem, OR.
- This case is one of 100 Oregon reports filed in 2018.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.