Sphere over Payette & New Plymouth, ID

The report, as filed

Traveling south East highway 52 from Payette, ID to New Plymouth, ID. Black, almost completely round object traveling at unknown high speed from northwest toward the east. Object on 1st seconds of sighting was assumed to be life-flight Helicopter. Within seconds I verified it was not. Object then seeming slowed and a starlight bright light came on at what was thought to be the front of the object. This flash was several seconds in duration and after coming on, while in my plain view the object and light just vanished. It was just gone or even became invisible. The short duration of my viewing the whole object had some sort of pattern on the outside of the vehicle that reminded me of the dimples of a golf ball except these dimple like sides were not as many as a golf ball looks. But it had some weird pattern of shaping around what I could see. The overall view of the objects roundness reminded me of a Lemon because it has slight protuberances like a Lemon. It was not perfectly round and these points were rounded, small, and were not in any form like a wing. I am a skeptic on UFO’s. Very much so. But I had to say something or talk to someone because I just do not know what to do and have emotions in my mind I have never had to do. I just do not know what to do. I can’t stop thinking about it. I was caught completely unprepared and with zero control of what I watched. This is one of the most incredible things I have ever experienced and I do not know how to process what I saw, how I feel and being afraid to admit it. I just don’t know what to do. This was one of a few life changing experiences I have had and I do not know what to do or how I can process the event to make me feel sane and in charge of my faculties. But I saw this thing. I know I did. And I am now lost.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #167469). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.