UFOMYST
CaseOther2021

Meridian, ID, USA

What looked to be a sparkling contrail was actually a massive illuminated ship that crossed the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-17
Where
Meridian, ID, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
~5 minutes
Geo
43.612, -116.392 · exact
Slug
other-over-meridian-id-2021-d5085d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 54 reports logged in Meridian, ID.
  • This case is one of 53 Idaho reports filed in 2021.
  • Other craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% 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.