Meridian, ID, USA
It was exactly like the Phoenix lights, and someone has a photo of the formation.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-01
- Where
- Meridian, ID, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- Unknown
- Geo
- 43.612, -116.392 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-meridian-id-2015-9d1a62
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 54 reports logged in Meridian, ID.
- This case is one of 98 Idaho reports filed in 2015.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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