CaseCross2009

Montpelier, ID, USA

4 lobed craft hovering over Montpelier, ID in broad daylight.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-15
Where
Montpelier, ID, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
about 3 minutes
Geo
42.322, -111.298 · exact
Slug
cross-over-montpelier-id-2009-1aa47d
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

  • Montpelier, ID has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 24 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.3% cross reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.3%.

Report

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