CaseCigar2013

Boulder City, ID, USA

Brightest light I've even seen, started as a circle then had a vertical beam shoot out from the top and bottom, and then it disapeared

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-30
Where
Boulder City, ID, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
35.979, -114.832 · fallback
Slug
cigar-over-boulder-city-id-2013-88e49c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 1 reports logged in Boulder City, ID.
  • This case is one of 102 Idaho reports filed in 2013.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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