Circle over Idaho Falls/Shelley, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saw a circle of flashing yellow and white lights (around the outside, in the middle of the circle there were yellow/green twinkling lights) hover just above roof-height of a metal shed in a field between Shelley and Idaho Falls. It flew straight in the air heading south then changed directions in the same speed (not altering speed yet making a 90° change in course) towards the ground (dropped down to the ground) out of sight behind the area where the shed was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150147). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-10-20 → 2019-11-06