Triangle over Salem, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three witness low hovering craft over farm field...joint NUFORC and OUFOR investigation.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2002-03-26 → 2002-04-12
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July 20, 2023 · 7:18 PM · CUBE
Salem, OR
Driving out of the mountains last week I saw a metallic flying object that looked like a flying toaster but larger. It had a dark area to the backside or left on the object. When I stopped my truck to record it the thing vanished in a blink of an eye. There were no clouds in the sky or trees in the way to block my view. It happened so fast my son did not see it. The flying object was only 300 feet high at the most. It was moving fast laterally like it was paralleling our trucks travel direction observing us. I took a picture of the sky where I last saw the object after it disappeared. I stood there for a few minutes trying to figure out where the thing went or see if it was going to reappear. No sound I could hear like a plane. Right after it disappeared there was a white jet or drone that flew overhead where the object disappeared from. The drone looking thing was high in altitude compared to the flying toaster shaped metallic object I had seen. The flying toaster object was approximately 20 ft long and 10 feet tall. No flashing lights but there was a dark area on the back or left side of the object. It was traveling fast from my left to right in the sky.
January 10, 2023 · 7:15 AM · CIGAR
Salem, OR
Large cigar shaped drone like sphere with 2 headlight no sound no movement approx 300 hundrend feet above ground .Saw the same thing from a different location of Salem just as sun down above the same spot.It disappeared as though it knew I was looking. Weird!
March 30, 2022 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Salem, OR
In yard walking south around 9 pm. On phone with family member. Glanced up to sky while walking and caught movement over left shoulder. Street lights were on and it was dark out. Stars visible but possibly hazy light cloud cover. Turned around to see movement better and saw 5-6 fuzzy round objects in the sky flying north in formation. Close to airport and familiar with all sorts of aircraft coming too and from and there was no correlating sound to the objects that sounded anything like any flying object. Seemed high up like jet plane distance but bigger. No flashing lights or colors seen. The objects moved in formation smoothly like an uneven V formation like geese but way closer together. I told my family memeber I had to go and hung up and tried to grab a picture but I lost it through the outline of the tree as I was moving fast. Tracked with my eyes where it should be but looked down at my phone for camera app and couldn't find it after that. Very unfamiliar sighting and I look up a LOT in my life.
January 2, 2022 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, OR
My wife and I were watching Ron's Gone Wrong on HBO MAX. We were sitting in front of our living room window facing the window. As we watched the movie we noticed these bright lights that were a perfect circle "turn on" but like they were coming down. Think of like a beam of light but in dots. They were a perfect circle. No glare or anything. They came down and then went back up. As it They went back up if looked like they were being turned off. One after thee other. When it got to the top we could see or sense the unknown object leave via the right side of the window. Not fast or like any known flying object, say a plane or helicopter or drone. Tonight has been very very stormy and windy which confused us. Because it would be a plane or drone or helicopter. We both saw these strange dot lights and didn't say anything until after we saw it leave. Then we turned to each other and asked if we saw that. I explained to my wife what I saw and she verified she saw the same thing. The whole experience took around 5-8 seconds. We live on the 3rd floor of apartments. There is a small open field across from our apartments. So the top of the lights had to be way above in the sky and the bottom had to be across the small field to what seemd like the ground. Behind the field there are other apartments. The lights didn't stop behind the apartments which means they were in front of them by the field. We both sat there trying to find explanation to what we saw but remembering how stormy it was also helped verify it wasn't normal. We both felt woth blank minds. Like shock perhaps or like we couldn't believe what we saw. It wasn't normal. It would have been the starlink satellites because the lights came down. It wasn't across the sky. My wife thinks it was as if it was an object that came down turning on the lights but I feel as it was a beam of light in form of dots. We both feel like we could see the object leave slowly as if it's floating or hovering via the right side of the window. Please contact me via email as i do not answer unknowned numbers.
September 1, 2021 · 12:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, OR
We were at the Oregon State Fair and noticed some shapes to the north. We thought they may be balloons or sky divers. As we watched the objects move to the west, they changed formations. They were random formations at first and then moved into lines, a circle, and then into an arrow (two connecting lines) before disappearing in the west.
July 4, 2021 · 1:40 PM · CHANGING
Salem, OR
Daughter was laying on floor by sliding glass door and started exclaiming about shiny birds. I ran over to see what she was talking about and there was a large group of floating/shifting shiny objects not far from above our home. At first I thought they were birds; they looked like they had wings at first but the way they were shining and moving seemed wrong. Perhaps, a large group of foil balloons tied together or drones? They kept getting further away and they would shift around together quickly, change formation shape and become invisible at times. My husband and 3 year old were also watching. Barely captured part of it on video.