Nampa, ID, USA
Triangle shaped. Orange to red glow. Would be dim, bright, and disappear. Then reappear in different location. Silent.
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: 3000s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-07
- Where
- Nampa, ID, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 50 minutes
- Geo
- 43.541, -116.563 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-nampa-id-2017-bc8bb2
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Nampa, ID reports filed in February 2017.
In context
- Nampa, ID shows up 75 times across the archive.
- 50 reports came from Idaho in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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