UFOMYST
CaseCigar2005

Pocatello, ID, USA

Craft moved from north to south and then accelerated and disappeared from sight.

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-04
Where
Pocatello, ID, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
25 seconds
Geo
42.871, -112.446 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-pocatello-id-2005-8a0c6b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 26 documented reports from Pocatello, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Idaho logged 31 sightings in 2005.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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