CaseFireball2006
Meridian, ID, USA
Bright white tail burning east to west parallel to the ground.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-06-01
- Where
- Meridian, ID, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3seconds
- Geo
- 43.612, -116.392 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-meridian-id-2006-2469f4
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
- Meridian, ID shows up 54 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from Idaho in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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