UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2013

Sandpoint, ID, USA

20 SEC SHOOTING STAR. ((NUFORC Note: Many reports to news media. Possible meteor, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (21 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-10-30
Where
Sandpoint, ID, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
48.277, -116.553 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-sandpoint-id-2013-032a61
Wave

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In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Sandpoint, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Idaho logged 102 sightings in 2013.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

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