UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Sawtooth National Forest, ID, USA

white yellow round ball of light north of ketchum, Id. in Sawtooth National forest

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-22
Where
Sawtooth National Forest, ID, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
circle-over-sawtooth-national-forest-id-2012-7ab468
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 →

In context

  • Sawtooth National Forest, ID has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 57 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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