Salem, OR, USA
Witnesses in Salem, Oregon, reported strange orange lights moving silently through the night sky during a brief 30-second sighting in December 1966.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (148 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-12-19
- Where
- Salem, OR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30"
- Geo
- 44.943, -123.035 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-salem-or-1966-6c91a6
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 170 reports logged in Salem, OR.
- This case is one of 5 Oregon reports filed in 1966.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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