CaseFormation2019
Garden City, ID, USA
It doesn't look natural I'm the clouds.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-06-30
- Where
- Garden City, ID, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.622, -116.238 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-garden-city-id-2019-5a4c46
Wave
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…
In context
- Garden City, ID shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from Idaho in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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