CaseFlash2019

Mackay, ID, USA

Very high altitude, high intensity flashing light that moved away from the earth and out of site in under 10 seconds.

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
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-06-03
Where
Mackay, ID, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
43.915, -113.613 · exact
Slug
flash-over-mackay-id-2019-d44dcd
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 2 reports logged in Mackay, ID.
  • This case is one of 104 Idaho reports filed in 2019.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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