CaseFlash2021

Payette, ID, USA

strobing red light moving slow then fast, witnessed by a police officer.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-02
Where
Payette, ID, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10min
Geo
44.078, -116.934 · exact
Slug
flash-over-payette-id-2021-a5cc18
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 8 reports logged in Payette, ID.
  • This case is one of 53 Idaho reports filed in 2021.
  • Flash craft made up 1.1% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.