X-Files, Idaho style
A small, cylindrical object is seen in the sky Sunday over Post Falls. It was caught on video by Jose Ramos Jr. who pulled this still image from his video.
A Post Falls father’s Sunday evening took an out-of-this-world turn when he saw something unexpected on a video he recorded.
“I was like, is that what I think it is?” Jose Ramos Jr. said.
He saw what appeared to be a UFO moving quickly across the sky over his neighborhood off Mullan Avenue near Walmart.
Ramos made the recording as he was sitting on the freshly cut grass in front of his family’s home around 7:30 with his 8-month-old daughter, Arianna. His fiancee, Ashley Hix, was driving her new car slowly down the street. Ramos was capturing it on video so she could see how it looks.
“I pushed play and as it was playing, I heard a whoosh. I didn’t see anything, just heard a noise,” he said.
He played it again and noticed something shoot across the sky over his fiancee’s car as she approached a stop sign.
“I just thought, ‘What is that?’” he said.
Ramos replayed the video again and again. Then he slowed it down.
That’s when he saw a circular object high in the sky. It was shaped like a stereotypical flying saucer.
“I was just in shock,” he said.
There are frequent UFO sightings reported to organizations like the National UFO Center in Davenport, Wash.
The most recent Idaho sighting reported was in King Hill, about 30 miles from Mountain Home. The observer said he saw a bright orange “oblong-ish” light.
Closer to home, red and orange lights moving low across the horizon were reported in Sandpoint in February.
In June 2017, someone in Spirit Lake reported seeing something a little more like what Ramos caught on video: a “bluish, semi-transparent” round object moving east.
One of the more active years for UFO sightings was 1947. The observations made headlines nationwide, and the descriptions were a lot like what was in the sky over Post Falls on Sunday.
Residents of Spokane reported seeing eight, “shiny-silvery” disks flying around 600 mph on June 21, 1947. Three days later three disks, described as “wobbling” were reported over the Tri-Cities.
Ramos said he was into aliens and space things when he was a kid, but it’s been years since he’s given much thought to anything extraterrestrial.
He just wants to know what it is that he recorded. He can’t come up with a reasonable earth-based explanation.
“It can’t be a drone because they don’t go that fast,” he said. “It couldn’t be a jet, because they’re loud.”
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