UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Shelley, ID, USA

Stationary bright light over foothills stays still for 10 seconds and then flies out of sight in less than a second.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-02
Where
Shelley, ID, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
43.381, -112.123 · exact
Slug
light-over-shelley-id-1978-7ae4fa
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Shelley, ID has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 4 reports from Idaho.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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