Idaho UFO Sightings in 2023

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Vertical, black, slow moving/hovering, then quickly moved towards the mountains and lost sight. Noticed this tall, black, metallic looking object in the air. It looked like it was just floating along and almost not moving at all at one point.

Then could tell it was moving north east. We lost sight of it behind clouds or over the mountains, or it just disappeared all together.

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White sphere darts across highway above car I was driving with my fiance from Northern Idaho to Jackpot NV. We were in the middle of nowhere, I believe we had already passed Twin Falls but it may have occurred between Boise and Twin Falls. It was a clear night punctuated with patches of dense fog.

When we hit the first patch of fog a white sphere shot across the road above our car and was gone in less than a second. We both shouted and gasped WTF!? It was clear as day, moving at an incredible speed, clearly visible through the dense fog (now obscuring the stars), made no sound and left no trail. In the moment the best size comparison I could think of was a basketball at the height of a streetlight.

My fiance thought it may have been further away and larger, her guess was 100 ft away and 30 ft across. About an hour later she was asleep. I first saw a small shooting star (tiny with a trail, about 1 inch across my field of view) then I saw a similar white sphere as before (this time much smaller and further away but significantly larger than a shooting star).

This sphere shot across my entire field of view from left to right in a second or two before fading off into the distance. My jaw dropped. It was the fastest thing I've ever seen but still no trail, no sound.

Totally clear view at the time.

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First, I thought of the position of the planet Venus at that time…until I took enlarged pictures… From 1978 to this day, I believe I saw 3 UFOs (Unknown Flying Objects). One when I was an ATC (Air Traffic controller) in the Air Force, another one when I was a Flight Attendant and another one as a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI ) pilot. Those UFOs had different shapes such as diamond shape and croissant shape.

Last night, I woke up at 5am. I saw a bright light in the sky from my bed. I leave by the Lake Pend’Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho.

I walked to the balcony. First I thought it was the position on the planet Venus at that time (5:10am). Considering the rotation of the Earth, that “thing” was not moving.

Then I began to take pictures with my cell phone. And this is what is appearing (see pictures)! I leave the analysis and conclusion to the experts. But please let me know the verdict!.

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Long stream of bluish Points of Light moving at a rapid speed across the sky between cloudbreaks I am not sure how many objects I just witnessed, (I had to put a number in the box) because they were in a long stream moving rapidly across the sky between the clouds. They were moving very fast and went behind the cloud at a high rate of speed. I clicked on my sky app looking for starlink satellites because I thought this must be what I just saw, but from what I understand starlink satellites do not move extremely fast, nor are they blue, but there were no starlinks displaying on my screen moving in this direction.

These were distinctly blue and we're moving rapidly, so rapidly it made me think of a weapon being fired that leaves a trail of light behind it. They were coming from the west and headed east and I caught them while I was glancing up to see a storm headed up from the southwest and there are some lightning flashes down there. And I could just barely see the moon behind the clouds due south of these objects.

If they turn out to be starlink satellites I apologize but I can't imagine that they were. The gap in the clouds that I saw these through, was as wide as the space created when I hold my arm at full length toward the sky, and splay my fingers outward, from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger. They were very, very small points of bluish light, looking like nothing I've witnessed before.

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Hovering about mountain As we were driving, I noticed a bright object hovering above a mountain. It wasn’t moving and it was very bright. After telling some people about it, I found out the same object was photographed in Soda Springs two days earlier.

We compared photos, and they seem to be the same thing.

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Bright light high in the sky, to the west, about 30 deg up from the horizon. Similar to a star or planet in the sky. Looks like a shiny white spear using binoculars.

Not moving very fast. Don’t believe it is Jupiter or Venus using a sky app for current planet locations. Suspect a weather balloon, but I have no idea.

We took a photo with a camera, but it looks fuzzy when zoomed in, so it’s par for any odd event for photography.

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Orange lights in the sky with smooth but random movement that joined in formation to form a triangle, then accelerated away from us. I work medevac and fly on a pilatus PC-12. We were en route from Salt Lake City UT to Idaho Falls ID.

We started tracking a series of lights (3-4) to the North East of our position around the time we hit the Idaho/Utah border. One of the lights appeared to have a parallel flight trajectory to the east of us off our right wing. It was several miles out.

We radioed in to the SLC ATC and inquired if there was any traffic in our vicinity. We were instructed that there was no traffic. No other aircraft responded on the radio about being in the area.

There was nothing on radar or a transponder signal. Eventually the light disappeared, but reappeared at a higher altitude, and there was 3-4 lights moving at a speed not consistent with any aircraft that we would be familiar with moving in random but smooth patterns. We were at 20k feet.

These lights would fade in and out and all have different vectors. Eventually they all met up, formed a triangle formation with 3 points of light (one on each corner) and one faint light in the middle and it moved up and vanished. We landed at Idaho Falls and still noticed 1-2 lights at a time coming down (possibly through the atmosphere) flying in random patterns at different points in the sky, then vanishing.

This whole phenomenon lasted about 45 minutes. We are pretty used to seeing meteor showers at night since we fly a lot of night missions, but none of these lights had the characteristics of meteors based on movement. It was very awesome to see.

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Saw it above my house this morning and took pictures I saw a strange light which I assumed was a satellite or a drone so I took pictures. When you zoom in on them they show what appears to be a shiny round object. It sat still in the sky for 15 min or so then vanished suddenly.

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Orange ball of light rises over tree line and zig zags vertically before rising into air while fading out, faded back in higher up My fiance and I were on my mom's property attempting to view the northern lights. No color was visible but the sky was lit up behind the pitch black hills making it easy to differentiate between hills and the sky. We pulled our car onto an inclined driveway facing north towards the hills, parked, and sat watching the sky.

After about 30 minutes, I was zoned out looking out the driver side window in a North-West direction. An orange ball of light rose over the black tree line in the distance. From my line of sight it was roughly the color of a planet but twice or three times the size (about the size of a pencil eraser in my field of view).

For the first few seconds I assumed it was a plane flying towards me and so appeared to rise over the trees at a slight angle. Then it dramatically zigzagged up and down three times (about 2 inches of movement in my field of view) before veering upwards quickly. While heading upwards it faded out to nothing over the course of a second.

A second later it faded back in, now higher up in the sky, then faded back out again over another second. From my field of view it started over a treeline but ended up over a larger hillside (about 6-8 inches of horizontal movement in my field of view). I pointed and shouted look to my fiance when it first started zigzagging but she didn't see it.

I don't know the exact distance to the treeline but they are several properties over from my mom's house. This is rural Idaho so it's hard to express how dark of a landscape it is at night.

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Two red star sized objects traveled from one lighting fill storm cell through clear star filled area and back into another cell. Went outside to watch a lightning storm go by. I saw a red star shaped object travel out of a lightning filled storm cell into clear skies for 5 seconds and then it went into another cell.

Seconds later another red object followed in the same direction. Traveling south to north.

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Venus rising.

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Did not see in person, security footage picked it up. Slow moving oval shape light with tails crossing sky . Did not see in person, security footage picked it up.

One slow moving oval shape light with tails crossing the western sky over Lewiston Idaho. When zoomed in on the object, you can see it pulsating. Never disappeared during the recording.

Did not appear to move in a straight line the entire time. Original video is on security system that I installed at my place of employment.

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Strange object in the sky I'm a hobbiest photographer. I had my camera set up on a tri pod and was doing what is called photo bracketing. I took a series of 4 shots at different shutter speeds.

The four photos were taken within seconds of each other. It wasnt until I got home and was processing the photos that I came across something odd in only one of the photos. At first it appeared that my camera lens was dirty, but when I zoomed in on the photo I found something very strange in the left hand side along with all the other clutter in the photo.

Everyone who has seen the photo so far agree that its very strange.

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“V” shaped craft with orange and red lights At approximately 11pm, on a partly moonlit night, I saw a silhouette of a “V” shaped craft with six orange lights along the outside and one larger red light in the middle of the crux. It was not making any sound to where some campers close by didn’t even know it was there. It was moving just above the tree tops along the Lochsa river west to east about 50 mph.

I estimate the width from tip to top to be 250’ - 300’.

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Leaving the Maverick, looked in the sky, saw a white shape flying north maybe 500 feet in the air, maybe 20 feet diameter going fast Working for a IF City department, leaving the Maverick on Sunnyside and S Yellowstone walking north to the truck with two other coworkers. I looked up and saw and object and said "what is that?" The other two looked up and saw what I was looking at. It was all white, and round.

The underside appeared to be grey maybe due to shadow. The shape to me looked like a somewhat flattened ball. It was maybe 500 feet in the air and headed in a northward direction at a high rate of speed.

We watched it until it traveled out of sight to the north. Maybe 10-15 seconds total. It did not make a sound.

I immediately pulled out my phone and checked the Flight Radar app and there were no planes in the area. One guy I was with agreed it was a UAP. The other one is very skeptical.

Doesn't think it is a UAP, but has no idea what it could have been. If it was that low, we should have heard something. If it was higher than I thought, it was going at an incredible speed.

I did not think to try and video it at the time. I wanted to take it all in with my eyes. I don't care if I'm contacted by an investigator, but this is mainly for documentation.

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Metallic sphere sat motionless in the sky on a fairly windy day I spotted a metallic sphere in a clear blue sky in the middle of the day. It was fairly windy and never moved. I was with a group of about 20 friends and only one other person was really able to see it because the sunlight was really bright.

It stayed there for 2 hours and some time after it was gone. We were at approximately 7,000’ elevation and the object was 2,000’-3,000’ feet above us and slightly to the east.

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V shaped formation very silent V shaped formation moving south to north, low altitude, silver/whitish look to the craft. When passing over head everything went silent. Have a water pump that is running near by and then as they passed over it was like a cone of silence passed over us as well.

Witnessed clearly by myself and my wife. This is the second time we have seen a similar formation and the same “silent” effect as it passed overhead.

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I saw a cluster of metallic orbs that were 10 plus in numbers and two individual metallic orbs. My girlfriend, my seven year old daughter, and myself were staying at my friends cabin in Lava Hot Springs Idaho. During the afternoon after my daughter and I got back from a four wheeler ride to go fishing and we went inside because a lightning storm had come over us.

My daughter and I went to the balcony to observe the storm and when the clouds had passed over us to the East my daughter pointed out a very strange looking group of flying objects that were very close to the edge of the storm. At first I thought it might be a flock of birds but after seeing how far away these objects were given that they were hovering just above the next mountain range over it became clear to me that these objects would have to be extremely large to be viewed from such a distance. When I looked at the cluster of objects with a pair of binoculars they looked metallic when the sunlight would hit them just right.

There were no wings, no navigation lights, and no propulsion equipment. These were indeed metallic orbs I was looking at. The group of objects hovered and fluttered in a very random pattern.

I called my girlfriend over, she was inside working on her laptop at the time. I didn't say anything to her about what I thought I was looking at, I handed her the binoculars and told her to look at the objects. She seemed pretty stunned when she observed them, she saw very clearly that these objects could not be explained by any conventional explanation.

They stayed there for quite some time, maybe 15-20 minutes give or take. The objects eventually started heading North East until they were beyond my vision from the view point I was standing at. In the video I noticed that there were also multiple rogue UAPs flying around.

The first one can be seen starting at the 0.29 mark, when it comes out of the clouds and moves quite fast in a Z pattern descending towards the ground. This object eventually went bellow the tree line and out of site, it's possible it could have made a landing somewhere in the valley.

At the 0.46 mark you can see another rogue UAP come in from the right side of the camera and it ascends for a little while until it starts to level out and fly straight heading towards the cluster of UAPs that can be seen off and on throughout the entire 59 second video. I stopped filming the video because I did not know how well my camera was picking up the objects and wanted to get a good look at them before they disappeared.

Now after watching this video on a widescreen monitor and a stretched out 1x1 aspect ratio or a full screen stretch (this video was filmed in portrait mode so proper adjustments need to be made to see everything) I noticed that there was way more happening than I had initially observed. I truly do feel like me and my family witnessed something very incredible and out of this world. I put a dropbox link below to ensure the full resolution of the video can be seen.

This will be my second encounter with UAP's and this is the first time I have observed them in broad daylight. I do hope that someone will look at this video very thoroughly, thank you for your time. https://www.

dropbox.com/scl/fi/tm3d0gfuc93gsmm39wtkw/Screen-Recording-2023-07-26-at-3.11.

46-PM.mov?rlkey=ig95vbmlhb5v9rdc6hp7pins3&dl=0.

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Entered our vision from right to left-North to South. Perhaps 1000 ' altitude above ground 1/4 mile to West of our house. bright orange Bright orange circular shape like beach ball with fringe of yellow .

Approximately 40 m p h for 30 seconds. Sped up to disappearing point of light to S E. in cloud bank over Sal Mountain.

No sound.

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V shaped craft with 5-7 diffused lights. Directly overhead, flying low, traveling from west to east. Silent and fast We were in the backyard at my cousin’s, celebrating his birthday.

I wandered away from the porch to look at the stars. I was looking straight up, facing the southern sky and noticed a very faint, bluish white light. It looked as if someone was pointing a flashlight through fog, but the sky was clear of any clouds.

As my eyes focused and adjusted, I saw more of the same lights. They were all in a V formation like the way geese fly. The lights appeared to fall in and out of sync ever so slightly, which made me think it might have been multiple craft.

This all took place within a matter of seconds. I was stunned and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The only thing I could do was mutter an expletive to myself.

As it passed over the house, out of my line of sight, I ran to the opposite end of the backyard to see if I could follow it again, but it was gone. I returned to the group and told them what I saw.