Boise, ID, USA
I was walking my dog in a SE neighborhood. We walk this trail often so the dog can run freely. I got to the far end of the trail and no
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-09
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-boise-id-2016-dfb928
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…
Local cluster
Boise, ID logged 4 reports in the single month of February 2016.
In context
- One of 318 documented reports from Boise, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
- Idaho logged 75 sightings in 2016.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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