Sphere over Lava Hot Springs, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My girlfriend, my seven year old daughter, and myself were staying at my friends cabin in Lava Hot Springs Idaho. During the afternoon after my daughter and I got back from a four wheeler ride to go fishing and we went inside because a lightning storm had come over us. My daughter and I went to the balcony to observe the storm and when the clouds had passed over us to the East my daughter pointed out a very strange looking group of flying objects that were very close to the edge of the storm. At first I thought it might be a flock of birds but after seeing how far away these objects were given that they were hovering just above the next mountain range over it became clear to me that these objects would have to be extremely large to be viewed from such a distance. When I looked at the cluster of objects with a pair of binoculars they looked metallic when the sunlight would hit them just right. There were no wings, no navigation lights, and no propulsion equipment. These were indeed metallic orbs I was looking at. The group of objects hovered and fluttered in a very random pattern. I called my girlfriend over, she was inside working on her laptop at the time. I didn't say anything to her about what I thought I was looking at, I handed her the binoculars and told her to look at the objects. She seemed pretty stunned when she observed them, she saw very clearly that these objects could not be explained by any conventional explanation. They stayed there for quite some time, maybe 15-20 minutes give or take. The objects eventually started heading North East until they were beyond my vision from the view point I was standing at. In the video I noticed that there were also multiple rogue UAPs flying around. The first one can be seen starting at the 0.29 mark, when it comes out of the clouds and moves quite fast in a Z pattern descending towards the ground. This object eventually went bellow the tree line and out of site, it's possible it could have made a landing somewhere in the valley. At the 0.46 mark you can see another rogue UAP come in from the right side of the camera and it ascends for a little while until it starts to level out and fly straight heading towards the cluster of UAPs that can be seen off and on throughout the entire 59 second video. I stopped filming the video because I did not know how well my camera was picking up the objects and wanted to get a good look at them before they disappeared. Now after watching this video on a widescreen monitor and a stretched out 1x1 aspect ratio or a full screen stretch (this video was filmed in portrait mode so proper adjustments need to be made to see everything) I noticed that there was way more happening than I had initially observed. I truly do feel like me and my family witnessed something very incredible and out of this world. I put a dropbox link below to ensure the full resolution of the video can be seen. This will be my second encounter with UAP's and this is the first time I have observed them in broad daylight. I do hope that someone will look at this video very thoroughly, thank you for your time. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tm3d0gfuc93gsmm39wtkw/Screen-Recording-2023-07-26-at-3.11.46-PM.mov?rlkey=ig95vbmlhb5v9rdc6hp7pins3&dl=0 Objects are visible at end of video.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177028). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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