Oval over Moose Creek, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was after dark, the other three had gone to bed. I was standing outside the tent talking to my wife, who was inside the tent. I told her, hay theres a shooting? WTF??? she heard me say that! it came into our atmosphere very fast, lighting up like a shooting star but way bigger! it came in, made two slight turns and then rolled underneath and headed back out into space! it lasted about 3 or 4 seconds! it was hundreds of miles up and if i had to guess, after watching the space station go by many times at 17,000 mph, id say it was probably going about 50 to 80,000 mph! it was way faster the the ISS, but slower than a shooting star! I am sure others had to have seen it to! I looked for a place to report this but didn't find anything! I am a pilot and was camping at Moose Creek with our frinds in another plane! tonight I was talking to a friend of mine who is an FAA inspector in Idaho and he told me about you folks! Ive never seen anything like it, but I am telling the truth, it was incredible!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #168245). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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