UFOMYST
CaseOval1966

Salem, OR, USA

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Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-15
Where
Salem, OR, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
25 min
Geo
44.943, -123.035 · exact
Slug
oval-over-salem-or-1966-04c1b3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • One of 170 documented reports from Salem, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 5 sightings in 1966.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.6% during the 1960s (archive average: 4.3%).

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.