I think it’s deplorable that the headline doesn’t name the state. But the name Nez Perce is a giveaway that it is somewhere in that northwest corner of the Nation, which was the home of Chief Joseph, and the Nez Perce Tribe.
It was released by this local news agency about 2:00am EDT this morning. It wasn't a national news release. It was actually the first one that released his identity. The first report of it came from an aviation forum one of the guys in the ships FB page saw. That was about midnight EDT.
Never heard of the tribe, so it wasn’t a giveaway as far as I was concerned at least. 🙂