Mountain Home, ID, USA
Two UFOs witnessed between Boise and Mountain Home. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-07-27
- Where
- Mountain Home, ID, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2-4 minutes
- Geo
- 43.133, -115.691 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-mountain-home-id-2016-8c588e
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
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Mountain Home, ID.
- This case is one of 75 Idaho reports filed in 2016.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% 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.