CaseFireball1961
Lewiston, ID, USA
In 1961, a witness in Lewiston, Idaho, reported a round light hovering low in the sky before speeding away to the northwest and disappearing, lasting about five seconds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-12-05
- Where
- Lewiston, ID, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 46.417, -117.018 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lewiston-id-1961-1360cf
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In context
- Lewiston, ID shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Idaho in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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