CaseFireball2010
Boise, ID, USA
Fireball changes directions a stops in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-20
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-boise-id-2010-6071eb
Wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 318 reports logged in Boise, ID.
- This case is one of 32 Idaho reports filed in 2010.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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