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Idaho UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 59 UFO sighting reports in Idaho from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 18.64% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 15.25% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 22.03% of total).
- 05/15/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 5.08% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (17 reports, 28.81% of total).
Idaho UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Idaho UFO reports from 2021, 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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Smoke trails and hovering objects Flying object emitting black smoke cloud.
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Small craft with smoke trails and extraordinary maneuvers While we were driving on the freeway around dusk, we saw several very dark dots and what appeared to be a smoke trail from a very small craft. We obtained approximately one minute of video. The craft maneuvered erratically, at one point going straight vertical, while leaving small trails of dark smoke.
There appeared to be a large craft above the smaller craft, or it was a large plume of stationary smoke. Towards the end of the sighting, we saw what appeared to be military planes with flashing strobes enter in from the West behind the craft.
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I took two photos of the big dipper. I did not look at them until I got home. My husband and I went into the foothills to look at the night sky.
Can't remember if we were looking for something in particular. I took two photos. One showed the big dipper and the other showed this odd form.
I have not reported it before because we did not actually see it until we got home and checked the photos. The photos were taken through an open car window facing foothills and the sky.
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This summer while doing research on bigfoots, I ram across 3 different alenis thru out the summer. I've been going to the same place I am a bigfooter, been going to the same place in the rocky mountains for 8 years doing research on the Bigfoot type creatures, this summer extraterrestrial type alein looking creatures have shown up, I've photograph them 3 times this summer. They were not there the previous 8 years.
And I am confused as to why there hiding in the woods where I've documented 13 different bigfoots, and 2 yeti type creatures. I am lost there more aggressive then the Bigfoots. Any help would be great.
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Glowing UFO lights up the sky in May Idaho I was driving with my wife on our way to hunt some elk on the morning of October 3rd, 2021, just outside May Idaho in the Challis national forest. At 5:10 pm (sic. a.
m.) I noticed a large flying object that was visible through the windshield of my truck. I grabbed my wife's arm and told her to look up in the sky.
I stopped the truck so we could watch the flying object. It was an unbelievable sight. It had a greenish color an looked like it was made up of metal.
The Oval object was glowing in the sky. There were trails of lights that trailed the object and these light trails appeared to have fire sparks in them. The object was heading east and moving very fast.
It left our view after 8-10 seconds.
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UFO in May Idaho illuminates the sky with contrails of lights. My husband and I witnessed a UFO sighting on Sunday October 3, 2021, at 5:10 am just outside of May, Idaho, in hunting unit 37 (Challis National forest). We were in our truck on our way to hunt some elk that morning.
I had my head rested back on the seat and my eyes were closed but I wasn't sleeping. My husband very frantically grabbed my arm and said "you need to look at this!". He was pointing to an object through the front of the windshield and it was unlike anything I have ever seen.
He stopped the truck and we were able to get an 8-10 second look at it before it disappeared. Just as I grabbed my phone to take a picture, it disappeared into the dark sky. The giant flying object appeared to be made up of greyish-green colored metal that was illuminated and glowing in the dark sky, almost as if there was a spotlight on it.
It was very large in size and moving swiftly to the east. There were contrails of lights trailing the flying object. The contrails of lights were of multiple colors: blue, green, grey, and orange.
The size of the flying object appeared to be at least the size of a football field.
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McCall Idaho 6-8 white dots observed and photo evidence (2 photos) of green "A" type object in two locations on lake. On Saturday, September 19, 2021 a group of four individuals were driving on the East side of the Payette Lake in McCall, Idaho. We entered the Ponderosa State Park (East side of the lake) and drove to the boat ramp in an attempt to capture some scenic photos of the lake.
One of the persons is a professional photographer. The four of us took some photos of various parts of the lake and of ourselves. I walked out to the end of the boat dock and took a picture of the lake (looking west), using my IPhone.
Two other individuals walked toward me at the end of the dock. I then took a picture of them. They walked out to the end of the dock and the professional photographer began taking various photographs.
As she was taking pictures of the horizon (looking West across the lake), I noticed spots near the sun. They appeared white (almost like holes) and at first there was only one and then I noticed several (perhap 6-8) small white dots in the distance across! the lake next to the sun. The clouds behind them were dark so it was clear to me there was something there.
They were in no particular pattern, but they appeared to be close together (clustering). I asked the other two if they saw the dots and one of them did see the dots. She attempted to zoom in with her high powered camera to see if she could identify the objects, with negative results.
I proceeded to tell them that i thought, based on the oddness of the dots that i thought they were aliens (ufos). I then told them how Idaho, particularly the McCall area had quite a bit of ufo activity. I saw the dots for a brief period of time (estimated at 10-20 seconds).
I then proceeded to take more pictures across the lake (West) to catch the sunset off the water. I took 3 picture seconds apart. According to my IPhone camera these were all taken at 19:15.
We left the dock and took a few more pictures of various areas and then left the area to continue up through the scenic! byway. We had no other events of this nature during the rema! inder of our drive. At some point that evening I began looking through my pictures on my IPhone.
When I reached the 3 shot sequence , the first shot looked normal with no dots (shot at 19:15). In the second shot I noticed a small spec across the lake amongst the tree line on the left side. Note: one of my friends had accidently put her hand in the picture, which forced me to take a third shot approximately 5-8 seconds after the second shot.
Upon looking at the third picture I noticed the dot had now moved quite a ways above the tree line (still on the left side). I went back to the first picture and there was no dot. So I went to the second photo (with the dot in the treeline) and zoomed in on the dot and noted a green object that appeared disk like and unrecognizable, it was tipped to the bottom right.
I then went to the third picture (above the treeline) and noted a much clearer object that was green and appeared to have a solid "A" shape triangle in the middle (triangle with no bott! om) and a halo of green surrounding it. It too was slightly tipped to the right. It appeared to be large, as compared with the trees it was double in size.
Also, based on the distance of the shot the "dot" could be seen by the human eye, but not bright, green, or moving, which raised no awareness at the time the picture was taken. I might add none of us saw anything out of the ordinary at the time (other than the previous event i have mentioned. There was perhaps 1-2 minutes between the white dot sighting (first paragraph) and when the 3 series photo's were shot.
With that said, these were the only pictures any of us took of the objects after checking all photo's. I did not report the event at the time, since we were out of town. I am a 57 year old female who has been married 31 years (my husband was with us) and have one daughter.
I am recently retired (July 2020) and worked over 30 years in casino industry in Las Vegas as a Vice President and General Manager of various casinos. We moved from Las Vegas Nevada to Boise Idaho in July 2020 to be closer to our daughter. My husband and I travel quite extensively and were taking a road trip to McCall with some high school friends of mine visiting from St Louis, Missouri (both females).
They are sisters and one of them owns and is President of a computer company (and a professional photographer) and the other worked for a pharmaceutical company for over 30 years. Since the event I am certain that this object was not a drone, airplane, rocket, natural event, reflection, or house lights and believe based on the 'white dot" sighting and the picture evidence it is a UFO.
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Glowing light swoops down lands atop mountain emits bright lights then chased off by 6 silent helicopters with green lights I watched a ball of light that had a aura of light blue light glowing around it come down fast at 45 degree angle with very small comet like tail it swooped like a Nike symbol stopped 4,000 ft up or so started glowing even brighter then it took off over top of Chinese peak mountain. 5 minutes later I look over and it’s either landed or hovering just above the mountain rite next to a bunch of antennas on the mountain glowing super bright an now had a glowing fireball of light to the side of it. About 10 mins went by of it pulsing glowing.
Then all the sudden glowing balls dimmed out and 6 to 8 helicopters with green lights on them popped up out of no where they must have came from other side of mountain they went back and forth in the general area of where the ufo was sitting for less then 5mins then all helicopters took off in line formation to the west but the odd thing was I did not hear a single helicopter I was watching them fly around multiple helicopte! rs but did not hear any noise at all. It was rather odd contact me via email if needed.
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Silent, dark, shield-shaped object. The object was shaped what I could best describe as a shield-like shape. Rounded at the front, with a round protrusion at the rear.
It was completely dark with no lights that I could see. I could see it because it blotted out the sky and stars. I would estimate the altitude at about where airliners fly.
Maybe 30,000 feet. It was very large. Estimate at least 500x500 ft.
It was completely silent and was flying at a high rate of speed. It was travelling almost directly from north to south and only took about 5 seconds to travel from horizon to horizon.
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Looking toward Western sky, my sister and I watched an object with a bright, white light at the head and a smaller, white light at the end of what seemed to be a bar. It was dark, so we were unable to see actual shape. But it was very long.
Object moved swiftly overhead toward Eastern sky. There was no flashing, both lights were steady. Maybe a low sound was emitted not sure as there was some manufacturing noise.
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UFO Sighting Report – Monday, August 16, 2010 Commencing 03:15 MDT My brother and I planned a two-day fly fishing float trip down the South Fork of the Snake River in eastern Idaho between Swan Valley and Ririe. We put the boat in at the Swan Valley Bridge ramp and floated Sunday down to the Rattlesnake Point Campground. The lat/long for this campground is 43°36'12.
1"N 111°30'12.8"W or 43.603361, -111.
503556. This is an unimproved campground on a remote section of the river. There was no one around us for at least one mile.
There was mild smoke in the air from forest fires on the West Coast. We chose the campground because it would be a Dark Sky area with open sky above the river canyon. We setup camp with our tents about fifty yards apart since we both snore loudly.
My tent is mostly screen without the rainfly, ideal for sky watching from your sleeping bag. I woke around 02:30 MDT and was watching the Perseid meteor shower. About an hour later, as I was falling asleep, I noticed a weird light near my brother’s tent.
Thinking he was just relieving himself, I went back to sleep. About five minutes later, I noticed the light was there but it had drifted southwest across a meadow of thistles. This lead me to realize it was not my brother because you can’t walk through thistles.
The light continued drifting about and then seemed to climb the south canyon wall, which was several hundred feet high. This caught my attention so I sat up and watched intently to figure out what I was seeing. My first though was a drone, but there was no noise, so I eliminated that possibility.
I thought maybe a Sky Lantern candle balloon, but they don’t move that erratically and the air was calm. It was moving too swiftly to be a Search and Rescue Team. Then, the light drifted towards me off the cliff and into the river canyon.
It hovered behind some trees that I could vaguely see in the starlight. The moon was not visible. Brighter stars and metors were visible above through the smokey air but none behind the light.
The moving light was below the canyon wall from my vantage point so there were no stars around it. At this point, I decided to grab my Samsung S10+ cellphone and attempt to get a photograph to enlarge for identification. As I took photos, the spherical light started bouncing around up and down and zigzagging back and forth.
I switched to video mode and shot some videos. I’ve emailed everything to [email protected].
Around half an hour into the event, I decided to wake my brother to let him see it. I crept over to his tent using a red night vision headlamp. I woke him and it took him a couple of minutes to throw on some close and get his tent unzipped.
We were unable to see the anomaly. We did see Jupiter higher in the sky just NW of where I’d seen the light moving. I am sure that what I witnessed wasn’t Jupiter.
Jupiter appeared as a solid white bright round object. The roving light was not a solid color and was fuzzy-looking, not solid. The moving light that I saw was down in the river valley and was below the top of the cliff.
In my sightings, I could vaguely see two tall conifer trees that the light was behind. I am hoping my photos or videos can be enhanced to show those trees as evidence that the light was below the canyon wall and, therefore, not a planet seen through the light smoke. As I was filming, I was sitting on the ground with my elbows on my knees, trying to steady the camera.
In the videos, there are a couple of places where I zoomed in. This shows sort of a permanent enlargement of the light. In other places, the light itself changes sizes back and forth or blinks out entirely for a second or two.
It also changes shape and color a few times. In attempting to keep the object in the viewfinder, I moved the camera a few times, which could have resulted in some of the motion seen. Mostly the camera was held still.
It appeared to me to be between the size of a very large beach ball and an RV. It was difficult to size because of the lack of depth perspective. In appearance, it was a glowing sphere with hazy, fuzzy edges.
I never perceived a defined edge to it.
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 11 reported sightings | 18.64% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 13.56% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 6.78% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 6.78% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 9 reported sightings | 15.25% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 13.56% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 11.86% of all reports |
November | 6 reported sightings | 10.17% of all reports |
August | 6 reported sightings | 10.17% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 10.17% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 8.47% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 6.78% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Sunday | 13 reported sightings | 22.03% of all reports |
Saturday | 12 reported sightings | 20.34% of all reports |
Wednesday | 9 reported sightings | 15.25% of all reports |
Thursday | 9 reported sightings | 15.25% of all reports |
Monday | 6 reported sightings | 10.17% of all reports |
Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 8.47% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 8.47% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2021 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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05/15/21 | 3 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
06/12/21 | 2 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
08/30/21 | 2 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
10/03/21 | 2 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
01/31/21 | 2 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
Idaho UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 17 reported sightings | 28.81% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 13 reported sightings | 22.03% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 11 reported sightings | 18.64% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 15.25% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 8.47% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 6.78% of all reports |
All Idaho Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Idaho, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Idaho
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Idaho.