CaseCylinder2019

Boise, ID, USA

I was sitting on my couch watching a movie when I see something out of the corner of my eye. I look out the window and see some sort of

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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  • Duration parsed: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-01-23
Where
Boise, ID, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
43.614, -116.203 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-boise-id-2019-296f2f
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Boise, ID reports filed in January 2019.

In context

  • Boise, ID shows up 318 times across the archive.
  • 104 reports came from Idaho in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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