Circle over Sandpoint, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Picture the NBC peacock tail. Expand this picture to full circle. Now give this picture three dimensions like multiple tear drops cot
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-03-29 → 2012-04-15
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October 28, 2023 · 5:10 AM · LIGHT
Sandpoint, ID
From 1978 to this day, I believe I saw 3 UFOs (Unknown Flying Objects). One when I was an ATC (Air Traffic controller) in the Air Force, another one when I was a Flight Attendant and another one as a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI ) pilot. Those UFOs had different shapes such as diamond shape and croissant shape. Last night, I woke up at 5am. I saw a bright light in the sky from my bed. I leave by the Lake Pend’Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho. I walked to the balcony. First I thought it was the position on the planet Venus at that time (5:10am). Considering the rotation of the Earth, that “thing” was not moving. Then I began to take pictures with my cell phone. And this is what is appearing (see pictures)! I leave the analysis and conclusion to the experts. But please let me know the verdict! [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
August 30, 2021 · 4:45 AM · OTHER
Sandpoint, ID
Looking toward Western sky, my sister and I watched an object with a bright, white light at the head and a smaller, white light at the end of what seemed to be a bar. It was dark, so we were unable to see actual shape. But it was very long. Object moved swiftly overhead toward Eastern sky. There was no flashing, both lights were steady. Maybe a low sound was emitted not sure as there was some manufacturing noise.
September 7, 2020 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Sandpoint, ID
There was a bright glowing object in one spot that moved here and there for about an hour definitely not a airplane or star I have video and photos. The second one blinked bright twice before quickly disappearing that was also a circular object there's no way any military craft or airplane would or could move at this speed my phones camera was static like looking before it clears and I got a shot.
February 2, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Sandpoint, ID
Between hours of roughly 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm PST on Feb 2, 2019, we were sitting in our hot tub. It was dark night conditions with clouds and no stars visible. Suddenly a yellow oblong shape tracked across the sky in a N - NNE route. It would have been below the cloud cover. There was no 'tail'. It was distinctly not round, and not fully teardrop, but just oblong. The event didn’t last more than 1 minute, and though I didn’t see it 'appear' because the hot tub lid obscured the view, it disappeared as a sort of blur that seemed to me that it was being obscured by clouds, as it headed away from us. It was never directly over us as if trying to BE over us personally. It just tracked along a bit to the east of our exact position as we looked up. It was a golden yellow color like campfire flame, not white or red or green as would normal aircraft lights be. The entire shape was the same color, not blinking or shifting intensity, and not leaving behind a trail or tail of any kind. The full shape just moved across the sky. And there was no noise at all, but then again, we were in the hot tub and that was making noise.
July 1, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Sandpoint, ID
Only a small amount of people were affected by a random power outage, we were the few and stayed at a friend's house for a while till it came back on. While driving home my boyfriend my brother, and I, all saw a line of very bright orange dots that were larger than any of the stars in the sky, (they almost looked like a bunch of Mars when it was at its closest to the earth). We quickly parked and got out of the car to see what it could be, it stuck out like a sore thumb and we all thought maybe something was falling out of the sky, possibly space debris. We moved up onto a nearby tall deck to get a better look and as we looked above the roof we saw very clearly, these three orange dots slowly form into a perfect equilateral triangle. We all tried taking pictures, but none of our phones cameras were able to pick up on them. As soon as it had formed a triangle it stopped and from left, to right it disappeared, then the top lingered a bit more and vanished as well. Needless to say, we no longer belived it to be space debris.
January 31, 2016 · 8:57 PM · FIREBALL
Sandpoint, ID
Completly silent the orange ball looked to have round or oval object above it and moving just at edge over cloud/fog cover. Then it slowed and turned northeast then turned east again. Then it almost did a left turn instantly heading north and increased speed out of sight while remaining completely silent. I heard two jets come from east and north which both sounded like they continued south at high speed. 30 minutes later, I can hear jets at high altitude above cloud cover. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD