CaseDisk1950
Salem, OR, USA
Three saucer shaped ships. High in the sky, metallic but no shine. Rather dull gray. They hovered overhead in a V formation.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-08-15
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-salem-or-1950-af4456
In context
- This is one of 170 reports logged in Salem, OR.
- This case is one of 2 Oregon reports filed in 1950.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% 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.