UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2016

Boise, ID, USA

Large black tube shaped object, 50 ft long, began to ascend into the sky in a slow "swimming" motion, until it was no longer visible.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-05-25
Where
Boise, ID, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
43.614, -116.203 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-boise-id-2016-5e8cf1
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

  • Boise, ID has 318 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 75 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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