Nampa, ID, USA
Disk/saucer in Nampa, Idaho. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Venus, we suspect. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-02-21
- Where
- Nampa, ID, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 43.541, -116.563 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-nampa-id-2017-e19b66
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Nampa, ID reports filed in February 2017.
In context
- Nampa, ID shows up 75 times across the archive.
- 50 reports came from Idaho in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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