Light over Pocatello, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
See above. Seen by my mother and father in law. No visible object just the lights in a long straight line Starlink?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170633). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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August 5, 2022 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Pocatello, ID
I was in my backyard looking around at night in the NW direction when I herd a really weird boom (I assume a sonic boom since I've never herd one in person before). The boom felt like it came from the other side of my fence where the sidewalk should be, but the sound itself felt like thunder originating from somewhere far away and from a single point. I looked in the direction of the boom (either W or WSW in direction) to suddenly see an incredibly bright neon green light appear up in the sky and a little to the right of where I felt the boom originate. I looked at the object and it seemed to be a bright neon green sphere (perfectly spherical as far as I could tell) that also looked to be whiteish-green in the center (like the sun, being more red looking on the outside and whiter near the center due to difference in light intensity towards our direction). The object also had a neon green, near spherical, aura I assume is from the intensity of the light illuminating the humidity in the night air (as it had rained that day and the humidity was sticking around). The object was flying to the right and entered what looked like a tunnel of some sort going into some clouds I didn't see until the object lit up. The edges of the "tunnel" had fingers of clouds coming out of them that looked like typical fractus clouds, but the edges of this "tunnel" were fuzzy and undefined. After flying about 8-10x the spheres diameter into the "tunnel" (as that's my only reference for dimensions), the sphere dimmed really fast like someone slammed the light dimmer switch for a house light until everything disappeared, including the tunnel and assoiated clouds. The light was on for a total of a second or maybe a little longer. Afterwards, I realized that the boom could have been from the light. I looked carefully at where I saw the light and couldn't see any form of cloud or smoke trail. Granted it was still nighttime and most likely beyond the light pollution of the city. If I had to guess I would say the sphere's location was somewhere around the waste field of JR Simplot's Don plant around 7 or so miles west of where I was at. Thinking back I can't remember clearly if I saw the sphere traveling horizontally, or if it was moving slightly upwards. It was not falling, though. The pictures included are of the view I had, and I have circled the location in the sky I saw the sphere.
September 16, 2021 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Pocatello, ID
I watched a ball of light that had a aura of light blue light glowing around it come down fast at 45 degree angle with very small comet like tail it swooped like a Nike symbol stopped 4,000 ft up or so started glowing even brighter then it took off over top of Chinese peak mountain. 5 minutes later I look over and it’s either landed or hovering just above the mountain rite next to a bunch of antennas on the mountain glowing super bright an now had a glowing fireball of light to the side of it. About 10 mins went by of it pulsing glowing. Then all the sudden glowing balls dimmed out and 6 to 8 helicopters with green lights on them popped up out of no where they must have came from other side of mountain they went back and forth in the general area of where the ufo was sitting for less then 5mins then all helicopters took off in line formation to the west but the odd thing was I did not hear a single helicopter I was watching them fly around multiple helicopte! rs but did not hear any noise at all. It was rather odd contact me via email if needed
September 2, 2021 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Pocatello, ID
The object was shaped what I could best describe as a shield-like shape. Rounded at the front, with a round protrusion at the rear. It was completely dark with no lights that I could see. I could see it because it blotted out the sky and stars. I would estimate the altitude at about where airliners fly. Maybe 30,000 feet. It was very large. Estimate at least 500x500 ft. It was completely silent and was flying at a high rate of speed. It was travelling almost directly from north to south and only took about 5 seconds to travel from horizon to horizon.
May 26, 2021 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Pocatello, ID
My husband just barely left the house. He called me to tell me hurry up and look outside there's the UFO. I threw my shoes on grabbed a jacket and my phone. As soon as I went outside I seen a string of lights floating through the sky. It looked to be all the same formation, object, it looked to be all in the same line as to be one vehicle. I pulled out my phone and recorded I think 5 seconds before it disappeared in the sky.
January 31, 2021 · 5:51 PM · SPHERE
Pocatello, ID
I was taking my dog outside and happened to look to the Northeast sky, about level with the telephone lines in the back alley, but far up in the distant still dark sky when the first white dot kind of just popped into view and was moving in a North to eastward direction for a short distance and disappeared, then another one would pop out into view moving to the same disappearing view point. They moved faster than a plane or orbiting object that I’ve seen before, but somewhat at a slower pace or patterned movement, but not a drone if you can understand that. I counted about 6 dots of light and one (about the fourth in the row) appeared to have a red and white light to it (but not blinking like a plane would), the rest were just white dots of light. They seemed to all move in the same direction for a short distance and then popped out of view one at a time, as they were seen above the tree line but very distant in the early morning dark night sky. It was exciting to see but in! a different location from the last ones I saw.
October 29, 2020 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Pocatello, ID
UFO REPORT At 6:30 A.M. on October 29, 2020 in Pocatello, Idaho while standing in my backyard with my dog, I noticed that the sky was clear for the first time in a while and I could see the Big Dipper in the Eastern sky. I looked North off the top corner star on the dipper toward the North Star and in between that area of the northeast sky I saw between 6 to 8 distant, star bright objects coming into view quickly, one at a time and immediately slowing down as if entering, from a dark spot in the sky, like popping out of some kind of portal and from a left to right orientation. They seemed to come in at various angles into a small area of the dark morning sky, hesitated together for a minute and then vanished out of sight instantly. I have never seen anything like that before so I was REALLY surprised to actually see something like that in space while looking at that specific area. Definitely out of our atmosphere and in space but unbelievable to see them instantly appear as bright star! dots and then they were gone as fast as they appeared. I’m firmly convinced it wasn’t “Swamp gas, drones, satellites, balloons etc.” as NOTHING on this planet moves that quick. No drugs, alcohol or anything else could be the cause and I’m a very sane retired person, but after this report some may question that validity. Pocatello, Idaho