Blackfoot, ID, USA
A report from Blackfoot, ID in July 1973 described a smooth, stone-grey triangular object with a dome on its underside, silent and unmarked, lasting Approx. 4 minutes.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-24
- Where
- Blackfoot, ID, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Approx. 4 minutes
- Geo
- 43.190, -112.345 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-blackfoot-id-1973-7b2c3c
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Blackfoot, ID.
- This case is one of 1 Idaho reports filed in 1973.
- Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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