Boise, ID, USA
I saw a “fireball” brightening and dimming above the Boise foothills followed, by a shooting star above it in the sky
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-02
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-boise-id-2019-939f8a
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
August 2019 was a busy month for Boise, ID: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 318 reports logged in Boise, ID.
- This case is one of 104 Idaho reports filed in 2019.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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