UFOMYST
CaseOval2018

Buhl, ID, USA

A tiny white elliptical object, illuminated by the sun at -6 magnitude at first, was observed 20° upper left of Venus at dusk.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-06
Where
Buhl, ID, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30+ minutes
Geo
42.599, -114.759 · exact
Slug
oval-over-buhl-id-2018-bbf7a6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Buhl, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Idaho logged 46 sightings in 2018.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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