UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Nampa, ID, USA

moved for about 30 to 45 minutes and then stopped and went back to a yellow ((NUFORC Note: Venus??))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-04-16
Where
Nampa, ID, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
43.541, -116.563 · exact
Slug
circle-over-nampa-id-2020-85e0a3
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Nampa, ID in April 2020 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Nampa, ID has 75 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 128 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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