Priest Lake, ID, USA
Aug. 12, 2015 10:30pm Location: Near Outlet Bay, Priest Lake, ID. Five adults viewing the meteor shower witnessed UFO (round, bright).
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-12
- Where
- Priest Lake, ID, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 6-8 seconds
- Geo
- 48.571, -116.823 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-priest-lake-id-2015-dd50e9
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 3 reports logged in Priest Lake, ID.
- This case is one of 98 Idaho reports filed in 2015.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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