Boise, ID, USA
started out looking like cop lights, then it slowly flew upwards as it flashed super bright, I've heard about ten jets take off since!
Report quality: High73/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-11
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-boise-id-2018-a0654d
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…
Local cluster
October 2018 was a busy month for Boise, ID: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 318 reports logged in Boise, ID.
- This case is one of 46 Idaho reports filed in 2018.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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