UFOMYST
CaseDisk2005

Meridian, ID, USA

I was approached by a strang flying light driving home in july. ((NUFORC Note: Probably an aerial applicator aircraft. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-07-08
Where
Meridian, ID, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
43.612, -116.392 · exact
Slug
disk-over-meridian-id-2005-104817
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

  • Meridian, ID has 54 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 31 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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