CaseFormation2013
Meridian, ID, USA
W Shape Formation, Meridian, ID.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-16
- Where
- Meridian, ID, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.612, -116.392 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-meridian-id-2013-4509fa
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
- Meridian, ID has 54 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 102 reports from Idaho.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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