Bonners Ferry, ID, USA
Series of lights that appeared to be coming from a solid cigar object (but could have had more depth) slowly traveling west to east.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-15
- Where
- Bonners Ferry, ID, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 48.691, -116.316 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-bonners-ferry-id-2021-5ea366
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Bonners Ferry, ID.
- This case is one of 53 Idaho reports filed in 2021.
- Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.