UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA

Object raised vertically from lake and zips off horizontally like a lightning bolt.

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 (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-10-15
Where
Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
47.678, -116.780 · exact
Slug
oval-over-coeur-d-alene-id-1978-44c736
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Coeur d'Alene, ID shows up 46 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Idaho in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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