Mountain Home, ID, USA
Saucer like object made up of 18 red lights in eastern sky from Mountain Home, Idaho.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-01
- Where
- Mountain Home, ID, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 43.133, -115.691 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mountain-home-id-2015-d29a4d
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Mountain Home, ID reports filed in May 2015.
In context
- Mountain Home, ID shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Idaho in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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