UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Middleton, ID, USA

I was driving on my way home from work. I was westbound on Purplesage road when I saw a blue orb or spherelike object with a bright c

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-16
Where
Middleton, ID, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
43.707, -116.620 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-middleton-id-2016-db34ca
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

    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…

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In context

  • Middleton, ID has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 75 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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