Mountain Home, ID, USA
We were living just outside of Mountain Home on Beet Dump Rd. My son pointed to the sky and yelled for us to look. My husband,myself an
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-15
- Where
- Mountain Home, ID, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.133, -115.691 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mountain-home-id-2005-5b41f1
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 21 documented reports from Mountain Home, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
- Idaho logged 31 sightings in 2005.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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