Silverton, OR, USA
Camping outside when a bright light in the sky flashed, moved to the right, then faded out.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-21
- Where
- Silverton, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes?
- Geo
- 45.005, -122.783 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-silverton-or-2016-a1450f
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…
In context
- Silverton, OR has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 167 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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