Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA
Object that appeared to be satellite, changed speed and course, then stopped and hovered. Object split in two and departed
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-10
- Where
- Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 Minutes
- Geo
- 47.678, -116.780 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-coeur-d-alene-id-2012-e316df
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…
In context
- This is one of 46 reports logged in Coeur d'Alene, ID.
- This case is one of 57 Idaho reports filed in 2012.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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