CaseFormation2021

Garden City, ID, USA

At 6:20 am on Wednesday February 17, I saw a string of lights moving through the sky above the clouds. The object contained about 50 d

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-17
Where
Garden City, ID, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
one mnute
Geo
43.622, -116.238 · exact
Slug
formation-over-garden-city-id-2021-633b7f
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

  • Garden City, ID shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 53 reports came from Idaho in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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