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Caselight1997

Salem, OR, USA

AT FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A PLANE BUT OBSERVING THROUGH BINOCULARS, SAW ONE VERY BRIGHT LIGHT AND 3 SMALLER ONES... THEY WERE NOT BLINKIN

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-14
Where
Salem, OR, USA
Shape
light
Duration
3-6 minutes
Geo
44.943, -123.035 · exact
Slug
light-over-salem-or-1997-8bf72d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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Local cluster

Local cluster

July 1997 was a busy month for Salem, OR: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 170 reports logged in Salem, OR.
  • This case is one of 37 Oregon reports filed in 1997.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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