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Salem, OR
Oregon · Polk County · Salem Metro
Salem is a large city in Oregon with a population of 176,666. Residents earn $71,900 per year, which is 4% below the national average.
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176,666
Population
3,610/sq mi density
$71,900
Median Income
$36,477 per capita
$382,400
Home Value
$432,341 Zillow
$1,323
Median Rent
32.9% income on rent
53°F
Avg Temperature
239 sunny days/yr
381
Violent Crime/100K
3,689 property/100K
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Overall
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Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
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Economy
4.0 / 5.0
$71,900 median income, 3.2% unemployment
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Affordability
3.7 / 5.0
$382,400 home value, $1,323/mo rent
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Safety
1.0 / 5.0
381 violent crimes/100K (0% below avg)
B+
Education
3.5 / 5.0
31.4% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings Near Salem, OR
100 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Salem, OR.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Dual, nondescript white lights hovering motionless over the interstate. |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Bright light, then disappeared. |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Approx. 7 orange orb that looked in formation of the Big Dipper then disappeared and faded away. |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Formation of glowing red objects |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Large Orange Oblong Light Travelling Slowing Across The Sky. |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Brilliant colorful flashing lights moving in a very unconventional way @ 1:30am on January 25, 2014 in Salem Oregon. |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Looked like some sort of patrol or scouting team. |
| Salem, OR | 2014 | Six yellow-orange lights with reddish halos moving from NE to SW at midnight on New Year's Eve spaced about 45 seconds apart; no sounds |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Orange oval glow flying/ hovering for 4 minutes outside Salem Or. |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | We saw 3 lights in the sky!!! |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Rectangular space craft following me and basically stalking me it had looked like extraterrestrial creatures were inside. |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Object sighted in West by South-west sky at about 21:20. Object appeared round/circular in shape with a dark center; had glow. |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Bright white or reflecting silver ball hovering...others flying by? |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Greenish blue object with white tail sighted in salem, oregon. |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Low flying star-like object transforms into shining golden triangle in Salem, OR. |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Brilliant star-like object hovers above trees and shines bright lights before changing into golden triangle. |
| Salem, OR | 2013 | Red lights floating east to west. |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | UFO SIGHTING FEBRUARY 8TH 2012 2 PM SALEM OREGON While driving to Salem on Wednesday the eighth of February on the Interstate 5 Southb |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | 7 glowing "orbs" floating from W. Salem OR from the west headed north. Stopping mid flight then up into the clouds. |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | 5 orange glowing objects cruise by swimming pool in densely populated neighborhood of NE Salem. |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | Observed one bright red/orange light at first, then saw three more identical objects following it forming a triangle shape as soon as t |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | Red pulsating sphere in OR- UFO? |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | VERY LARGE FORMATION OF 10 OR MORE ORANGE LIGHTS FAR WEST OF SILVERTON OREGON |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | Lights over Salem, Oregon |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | Bright flying object spotted near downtown Salem, OR |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | The object struck me as pretty because it was like a mirror with green lights. |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | White to red constant one light, to black saucer. |
| Salem, OR | 2012 | An oval shaped craft emited an intense silver light. The bottom of it had a red/blue streak. Then it very fast left blinking red. |
| Salem, OR | 2011 | Was driving at about 8 pm, suddenly in front of me in the sky a bright green egg shape appeared slowly crossed sky then accelerated and |
| Salem, OR | 2010 | various objects in the sky near Salem, OR |
| Salem, OR | 2010 | it seem to sway back and forth slightly as it moved across the sky, brightly lit |
| Salem, OR | 2010 | Sept. 28th 2010 13-15 or more bright objects seen in NE Salem Oregon, at 2:27 PM PDT |
| Salem, OR | 2010 | Single round black sphere hovering with white clouds in the background. |
| Salem, OR | 2009 | Four large orange spherical objects with a diamond shape "halo"in long arc overhead. |
| Salem, OR | 2009 | Vague chevron object with strange colored lights and erratic movement seen, with smaller lights/objects emitted from it as it traveled. |
| Salem, OR | 2009 | Thought it was a Satellite until witnessing a very bright flash of light come from the object. |
| Salem, OR | 2009 | Triangular craft hovered over Wallace Road then took off towards other side of Salem |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | Two Parallel Lights Moving At Very High Speed Along An Unusual Path |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | A triangle shape of 3 rapidly flashing blue-white lights moving slowly over downtown Salem, OR |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | Vertical cylinder w/red round objects varying in number from 2 to 4 in center mixed with intense bright lights |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | Lights moving from south to north, low to ground and slow without any sound. |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | No aircraft could have hovered so high, nor ascended vertically so quickly. |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | I saw a flying craft that was unlike anything I've ever seen. |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | i saw two shiny discs move trough the sky from north to south in the sunny afternoon, very slowly. |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | Multiple crafts sited |
| Salem, OR | 2007 | A large, bright orange rectangle appeared in front of the mountains, changed shape and produced orbs. |
| Salem, OR | 2006 | saw lazer light shaft 2 to 3 miles long. |
| Salem, OR | 2006 | Bright planet type light that went nova and shrunk to nothing. Hurt my skin and eyes. |
| Salem, OR | 2006 | Two separate rapidly brightening and dimming objects |
| Salem, OR | 2005 | Stationary light seen in night sky for one second |
| Salem, OR | 2005 | Seeing a light traveling due north from directly overhead at a slow pace, it suddenly flared up incredibly bright and then just went ou |
| Salem, OR | 2005 | Observed a light coming on and moving slowly northward past the Big Dipper Constellation for several seconds before going out. Then |
| Salem, OR | 2005 | I was in the parking lot and happened to look up and saw a bright light (-6 or -7 in magnitude) traveling southeast from approximately |
| Salem, OR | 2005 | There was a lone craft in the sky,that seemed pretty high. I am not familar with the exact hieght/Locations of things> According to the |
| Salem, OR | 2005 | Observed slowly moving white light at 10:40 pm heading north from direcly overhead |
| Salem, OR | 2004 | Strange lights -- moving and not moving -- seen in skys over Salem, OR |
| Salem, OR | 2004 | Object changed directions several times. |
| Salem, OR | 2004 | Bright light seen in western sky below the planet Jupiter. Brighter than Jupiter. |
| Salem, OR | 2004 | A moving light observed. ((NUFORC Note: Possible overflight and sighting of the ISS. PD)) |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | Very Bright Light |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | saw 11 circle object heading due south a a very slow pace in a group formation than disappeared |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | V shaped, Tilted and rotating pale white craft. No noise. |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | saw red light appear move rapidly through the sky in salem, or and then dissapear. |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | "A U-F-O HAS BEEN SPOTTED OVER THE SKIES OF SALEM." |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | Fast Moving Bright Light |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | Two red lights moving very quickly made two changes of direction in less than 20 seconds. |
| Salem, OR | 2003 | Salem OR, slow moving lights at midnight and 2 hours later heard noise but nothing spotted |
| Salem, OR | 2002 | triangle shape ufo N salem |
| Salem, OR | 2002 | Oregon UFO Review Case: Baseball sized pink object over head. |
| Salem, OR | 2002 | Three witness low hovering craft over farm field...joint NUFORC and OUFOR investigation. |
| Salem, OR | 2002 | I was looking out the front window of my house. Directly above me was the light. It was a bright white light moving directly east of my |
| Salem (outside), OR | 2001 | Yellowish light pulsating in the night sky |
| Salem, OR | 2001 | red light in southern sky |
| Salem, OR | 2001 | Four stationary bright flashes in the constellation of the Swan |
| Salem, OR | 2001 | 3 Extraordinary close Ufo encounters!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Salem (approx. 30 miles north of), OR | 2000 | Slow moving, horizontally flying object. |
| Salem, OR | 2000 | I SAW A BRIGHT ORANGE LIGHT IN THE SKY WHICH APPEARED TO HAVE A TAIL OF LIGHT THAT SUDDENLY SPLIT INTO TWO LIGHTS. |
| Salem, OR | 2000 | Orange orb |
| Salem, OR | 2000 | very fast low unknown shape red lights only NO noise covered half the horizon in 10 seconds or less going north to south not a plane ! |
| Salem (nw part of town), OR | 1999 | At first sight looked like star but kept moving almost in triangle upward motion. Colors kept changing as it moved upward. Am not sur |
| Salem, OR | 1999 | 3 of us standing in a large open area walking dogs. Watching some airplanes and than I tuned and saw the cylinder craft which flew int |
| Salem, OR | 1999 | Green umbrella shaped object coming in from the east and moving directly towards my position.looked like meyeorite except too big and s |
| Salem, OR | 1999 | large greenish white umbrella shaped object coming in fast left ionized trail. |
| Salem, OR | 1999 | At 2230 I saw a bright flash of light in the NW sky..this was followed by a sighting of a pinkish colored boomerang shaped craft.it loo |
| Salem, OR | 1999 | saw something out of the corner of my eye turend in time to see 2 flashes |
| Salem, OR | 1999 | Standing in my kitchen window I noticed a multi colored light flashing in the Southeast about 3 or 4 miles up. Shaped as a diamond and |
| Salem, OR | 1998 | We were stargazing, when we saw a dot of light weaving between stars. |
| Salem, OR | 1998 | Object was perfect sphere with blue half circle trail size tip of my pinky |
| Salem, OR | 1998 | object was travelling below cloud level,from north to south. boomerang shaped pinkish silver color manuevered without changing speed th |
| Salem, OR | 1998 | TWO PULSING LIGHTS PASSED FROM HORIZON TO HORIZON ON A NORTH TO SOUTH TRAJECTORY |
| Salem, OR | 1998 | My husband and I were traveling south on I-5 north of Salem when a huge bright light appeared ahead of us mid-sky. It seemed to be ove |
| Salem, OR | 1997 | We saw a bright green object that looked like a comet or shooting star but it moved very slowly. |
| Salem, OR | 1997 | AT FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A PLANE BUT OBSERVING THROUGH BINOCULARS, SAW ONE VERY BRIGHT LIGHT AND 3 SMALLER ONES... THEY WERE NOT BLINKIN |
| Salem, OR | 1997 | IT IS DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE THIS AS IT IS SECOND HAND INFORMATION. I HAVE TO GO BACK AND TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT..I WAS LISTE |
| Salem, OR | 1996 | While driving home on State street just East of Lancaster (we were traveling East) a bright lime/jade green "comet" appeared infront of |
| Salem, OR | 1996 | 4 individuals witness distinctly red light above clouds. Changes to white, back to red, then disappears. Video footage taken. |
| W. salem, OR | 1995 | Man w/ two brothers witness 7-8 discs at high altitude. One obj. larger than others. Multiple calls to 911; MUFON investigating. |
| Salem, OR | 1986 | Very Close Encounter. |
| Salem, OR | 1977 | Slowly moving cigar-shaped object with unusual flashing lights seen in Salem, OR in 1970's. |
| Salem, OR | 1966 | The pay off could be big for a little research. |