Caldwell, ID, USA
Approximately 7 PM a circular object with steady white glow seen to the North of Caldwell, witnessed by 4 people.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-06
- Where
- Caldwell, ID, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.663, -116.687 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-caldwell-id-2018-da852d
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
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Caldwell, ID.
- This case is one of 46 Idaho reports filed in 2018.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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