Salem, OR, USA
I was driving on Cordon Rd, from Ward Dr to State St when I saw it. It was going perpendicular of my driving. It was just below the clo
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-28
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-salem-or-2020-393c44
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Salem, OR reports filed in April 2020.
In context
- Salem, OR shows up 170 times across the archive.
- 237 reports came from Oregon in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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