CaseDisk1957
Smith's Ferry, ID, USA
A witness near Smith's Ferry, Idaho reported a disk-shaped object passing within a few feet of a truck cab, an incident later attributed by the Air Force to a lost missile, in August 1957.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-08-16
- Where
- Smith's Ferry, ID, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.301, -116.090 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-smith-s-ferry-id-1957-a16a33
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Smith's Ferry, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
- Idaho logged 2 sightings in 1957.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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