Boise, ID, USA
i saw a yellowish orangish triangle shaped air craft heading towards the northwest mountains in boise idaho. it flew across sky rather
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-19
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-boise-id-2020-bc82bf
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
7 reports came out of Boise, ID in May 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Boise, ID has 318 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 128 reports from Idaho.
- The 2020s skewed 6.2% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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