Oakley, ID, USA
The object was an orange light, almost like a flare shot from a flare gun, but it hovered for a couple of seconds then faded out.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-15
- Where
- Oakley, ID, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.243, -113.882 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-oakley-id-2014-01cd9b
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Oakley, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
- Idaho logged 89 sightings in 2014.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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