CaseUnknown1996
Salem, OR, USA
4 individuals witness distinctly red light above clouds. Changes to white, back to red, then disappears. Video footage taken.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-14
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-salem-or-1996-f76972
In context
- This is one of 170 reports logged in Salem, OR.
- This case is one of 29 Oregon reports filed in 1996.
Report
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