CaseCircle2020

Idaho Falls, ID, USA

I walked outside smoke a cigarette I looked up and seen an orange sphere I grabbed my phone and recorded a video it looked like it had

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: 36s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-01
Where
Idaho Falls, ID, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
36 seconds
Geo
43.467, -112.034 · exact
Slug
circle-over-idaho-falls-id-2020-9fb1fc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 46 reports logged in Idaho Falls, ID.
  • This case is one of 128 Idaho reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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