St. Maries, ID, USA
Light changing from bright white to orange as if the source is rotating. The white light is very intense and lights up the entire area.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-17
- Where
- St. Maries, ID, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Ongoing
- Geo
- 47.314, -116.563 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-st-maries-id-2020-abb900
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
- St. Maries, ID shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Idaho in 2020.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.