Jerome, ID, USA
Bright silver circular object with bright white lights around perimeter hoovering in sky.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-08
- Where
- Jerome, ID, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- So far 2 hours, still obs
- Geo
- 42.724, -114.519 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-jerome-id-2020-1c86c1
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
- Jerome, ID shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Idaho in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.