Lost River Sinks

Three panel intelligence dossier collage for the Idaho UFO UAP alien sightings archive showing left a farmer and two sons at their Snake River Canyon fishing camp watching a sky-blue edge-hopping disc with side flame-jet pods at 75 feet altitude along the canyon floor in August 1947 in the Battelle Unknown Number 9 case, center a small transparent-dome craft resting on the hood of a car on Highway 26 near Ririe with two visible occupants steering the vehicle toward a farmhouse as terrified passengers Guy Tossie and Will Begay are pressed back in their seats in November 1967, and right wilderness campers Buzz Montague and William Andrews watching two pale cold silver metallic discs hovering silently over a Spring Creek Mine ore dump at dawn in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the mid-1960s APRO-investigated mining UFO case

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United States Sightings

Sighting by Location: Idaho UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: May 29, 2026 | Updated: May 29, 2026

Idaho UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive Idaho’s anomalous record is defined by its terrain — the Snake River Plain, the Sawtooth and Bitterroot ranges,...

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Dossier-style reconstruction of the fall 1952 Lost River Sinks contactee encounter showing rancher Paul Solem approaching a metallic disc-shaped craft resting on the volcanic desert floor near Howe Idaho at night under bright moonlight with a tall blond-haired humanoid figure in a white uniform standing beside the craft and the distant lights of the National Reactor Testing Station on the horizon

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Idaho Sightings

1952: Lost River Sinks, Idaho Sighting

Published: December 18, 2012 | Updated: June 15, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1952: Lost River Sinks, Idaho Sighting In the fall of 1952, Idaho rancher Paul Solem claimed he followed a...

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Sighting by Location: Idaho UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1952: Lost River Sinks, Idaho Sighting

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