Caldwell (far west of, towards Oregon), ID, USA
My neigbor viewed what looked like a verticalcontrail,orange, for 10mins. at his work,then drovehome,viewed it for 10mins., I then ca
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-20
- Where
- Caldwell (far west of, towards Oregon), ID, USA
- Shape
- other
- Duration
- 20mins.
- Geo
- 43.663, -116.687 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-caldwell-far-west-of-towards-oregon-id-1997-d3f3a0
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Caldwell (far west of, towards Oregon), ID.
- This case is one of 7 Idaho reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.