UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Boise, ID, USA

Whole back yard lit up orange fiery sphere no more than 30 feet over head went north west to east really quick then just disappeared

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 (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-01-17
Where
Boise, ID, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
43.614, -116.203 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-boise-id-2021-3cbca4
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

Boise, ID logged 4 reports in the single month of January 2021.

In context

  • One of 318 documented reports from Boise, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Idaho logged 53 sightings in 2021.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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