CaseFormation2019
Meridian, ID, USA
Red light formation followed by white strobe light.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-13
- Where
- Meridian, ID, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.612, -116.392 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-meridian-id-2019-1f7099
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 54 reports logged in Meridian, ID.
- This case is one of 104 Idaho reports filed in 2019.
- 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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