UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Boise, ID, USA

Bright red star at about 30 degrees above eastern horizon. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Sirius? PD))

Report quality: Moderate50/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-12-24
Where
Boise, ID, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
43.614, -116.203 · exact
Slug
circle-over-boise-id-2011-a9c92c
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Boise, ID reports filed in December 2011.

In context

  • Boise, ID shows up 318 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Idaho in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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