UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Idaho Falls, ID, USA

In the sky West of Idaho Falls flying objects moving East slowly then rapidly to the South. Red orange in color, hundreds of objects.

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 (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-05
Where
Idaho Falls, ID, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
43.467, -112.034 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-idaho-falls-id-2012-9e6b2f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • One of 46 documented reports from Idaho Falls, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Idaho logged 57 sightings in 2012.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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