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Idaho UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 128 UFO sighting reports in Idaho from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (30 reports, 23.44% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 14.84% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (27 reports, 21.09% of total).
- 05/19/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 5.47% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (54 reports, 42.19% of total).
Idaho UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Idaho UFO reports from 2020, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Out back on my patio, my wife and i saw a very large orange orb floating through the sky. Got video and picture if it. It came up slowly, and continued into the atmosphere until the light was too dim to see.
I watch the stars nightly, see planes, helicopters, shooting stars. Im able to recognize planets, stars, and constellations in our night sky. This was most definitely not a man made light.
It was quite visibly something we have ever seen before. This is the 3rd time ive witnessed unusual activity in our area of the sky.
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red lights in a round configuration hovering was not a drone nor an aircraft saw red lights to the northwest of Star idaho it flew from west to northeast then stopped, hovered as though it saw me watching it. was too high to be a drone I had to go inside when I came back out it was gone. The lights were steady not flashing and appeared to be round in configuration I am a firm believer in UFOs being present as I also have experienced spirits of deceased individuals.
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25 ufo's over Fairfield, ID 25 craft following in formation across the sky and disappearing into a dark object that blocked out the stars. We tried to video tape the siting, but my wife's phone malfunctioned.
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Straight Line of 10 “stars” seen in the sky to the southwest in western Idaho Saw three stars resembling Orion’s Belt to the south west. Confused, I kept my eye on it and gazed in awe as several more stars periodically appeared, all forming a straight line. At its peak, it looked like about 10 stars angling from left to right, all in a straight line.
I was driving on 84 going west and was waiting for an exit to stop and take a picture, but one by one the “stars” faded away as I drove.
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Line of bright white illuminated projectiles girlfriend and I saw between 10-12 white illuminated objects moving from an SW to NE direction in the sky at night. They appeared to be coming from ground-level, reaching several thousand feet into the air. They were fairly slow-moving and faded-out seconds after first appearing on the horizon.
The looked similar to flares, but were slower, bright white and all following the same path, forming a perfect line in the sky. They were spaced about a second apart from one another.
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Straight line of lights in the sky that disappeared one at a time. I saw a string of lights in the sky that looked to be the same size and brightness as the stars. They were in a diagonal line, straight line perfectly spaced out.
I went to get a person close by to come and see what I was seeing. As I looked back to the sky, the lights were leaving one by one and disappearing until none were left.
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What looked like plane headlights approaching that suddenly streaked across the sky. I was heading to Boise on the highway from Mtn. Home, I saw what looked to me like an airplane coming towards Boise Airport.
It stayed in about the same place for several minutes and then suddenly in less than a second it flashed across the sky in less than a second and vanished.
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My husband took the dogs out to potty just before 7 PM MST, when he came back to the house he noticed a strange formation of lights in the sky, like stars but in a distinct straight line. He came in the house to get our little bird scope we have and told me he saw something strange. I thought he may have seen a comet, but when I walked on our deck I saw the same thing he did, a string of around 8 to 10 lights evenly spaced in the southern sky, they appeared to be moving slowly to the east in tandem.
We both got a good look through the scope, and then it was gone. Like the lights went out. It looked like it could have been one object by the way it moved but we did not see anything other than the lights.
We were unable to get a picture.
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Bright object hovering for more than a hour direction East of my house Very bright somewhat light pulsating, bright to slightly dimmer. No movement just stayed stationary. I finally went back to bed.
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7 distinct bright objects were spotted in the northeast sky, one by one, they disappeared instantaneously. 7 distinct bright objects were spotted in the northeast sky. One by one, they disappeared instantaneously.
They were a sort of crimson red color. They weren't moving in any way that was visible.
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MADAR Node 111.
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Driving on I-15 when we seen 2 flashes of bright green light that lit up the night sky approximately 10 minutes apart. There were no signs of aircraft, lightning, meteor, or any flight objects.
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Two possible triangle objects hovering over near Highway 93/ I was driving home from work, turning west off of N 2500 E and onto 4000 N. I look in the distance and see two sets of white lights seemingly just down the road from my house. Curiosity got the better of me and I drove further down the road, realizing these things were not hardly moving.
I get ready to hit Highway 93 and realize both objects were dark triangles. A police cruiser was parked at one of the sideroads, so being that morning traffic was just started I took my eyes off the objects and focused on the road, trying to find a spot where I could get a better look. I looked back at the spot I spotted them and they were both gone.
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Points of light moving erratically in the sky, sometimes at great speed. On 11/5/20, about 8:15pm I stepped outside to let my dog out. When I looked up, I saw an unusual bright light in the southern sky.
As I watched it, it suddenly changed direction and then moved erratically, both east and west. It was slightly red around the edge, but shape was not observable. I called for my wife to come see, and she was amazed to see it moving around in the sky, sometimes at great speed.
She called her sister who lives close by. Within 10 minutes, her sister sent a text to say that she and her husband had seen three of these lights in the sky. I went back out and observed a second light moving in precise unison with the first one.
They were much more overhead and the original one seemed much brighter than the second one. They continued to move around in the sky without any apparent direction for thirty minutes before I lost sight of them. This is my second time in the last 2 weeks of spotting this phenomena.
The first episode was very similar, but only a single light was observed, and I was the only witness.
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10-29-2020 06:30 Pocatello circles 3 minutes white star dots northeast sky over Pocatello, Idaho 11-10-2929 UFO REPORT At 6:30 A.M. on October 29, 2020 in Pocatello, Idaho while standing in my backyard with my dog, I noticed that the sky was clear for the first time in a while and I could see the Big Dipper in the Eastern sky.
I looked North off the top corner star on the dipper toward the North Star and in between that area of the northeast sky I saw between 6 to 8 distant, star bright objects coming into view quickly, one at a time and immediately slowing down as if entering, from a dark spot in the sky, like popping out of some kind of portal and from a left to right orientation. They seemed to come in at various angles into a small area of the dark morning sky, hesitated together for a minute and then vanished out of sight instantly. I have never seen anything like that before so I was REALLY surprised to actually see something like that in space while looking at that specific area.
Definitely out of our atmosphere and in space but unbelievable to see them instantly appear as bright star! dots and then they were gone as fast as they appeared. I’m firmly convinced it wasn’t “Swamp gas, drones, satellites, balloons etc.” as NOTHING on this planet moves that quick.
No drugs, alcohol or anything else could be the cause and I’m a very sane retired person, but after this report some may question that validity. Pocatello, Idaho.
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A flare? Looked like a bright green flare falling. Disappeared over highway 55.
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MADAR Node 111.
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MADAR Node 111.
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Light in the distance moved back and forth parallel to the ground, and then performed patterns unlike any aircraft I know of. Craft was moving side to side for a moment, and then performed a swirl up and to the right of my vision. Then the light went out.
Within a couple of seconds it lit up again and did the same swirl pattern, and the light went out again. Then it lit up red, then the light went out again. Then lit up white again and zoomed out of sight and diagonal right of my vision.
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Purple disk close enough in the sky to see individual lights forming circle.
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2020 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 30 reported sightings | 23.44% of all reports |
Circle | 24 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Unknown | 12 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
Formation | 8 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Triangle | 8 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 3.91% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.56% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2020 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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March | 19 reported sightings | 14.84% of all reports |
April | 18 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
May | 15 reported sightings | 11.72% of all reports |
February | 14 reported sightings | 10.94% of all reports |
August | 12 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
July | 11 reported sightings | 8.59% of all reports |
December | 8 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
September | 7 reported sightings | 5.47% of all reports |
October | 7 reported sightings | 5.47% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 5.47% of all reports |
November | 6 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2020 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Thursday | 27 reported sightings | 21.09% of all reports |
Saturday | 25 reported sightings | 19.53% of all reports |
Tuesday | 20 reported sightings | 15.63% of all reports |
Wednesday | 18 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
Friday | 15 reported sightings | 11.72% of all reports |
Sunday | 13 reported sightings | 10.16% of all reports |
Monday | 10 reported sightings | 7.81% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2020 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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05/19/20 | 7 reported sightings | 5.47% of all reports |
08/08/20 | 5 reported sightings | 3.91% of all reports |
03/26/20 | 5 reported sightings | 3.91% of all reports |
04/16/20 | 5 reported sightings | 3.91% of all reports |
12/04/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.34% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2020 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 54 reported sightings | 42.19% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 19 reported sightings | 14.84% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 18 reported sightings | 14.06% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 15 reported sightings | 11.72% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 12 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 10 reported sightings | 7.81% of all reports |
All Idaho Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Idaho, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Idaho
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Idaho.