Mountain Home, ID, USA
A strange formation of lights in the sky, like stars but in a distinct straight line.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-03
- Where
- Mountain Home, ID, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 43.133, -115.691 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-mountain-home-id-2020-367f07
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
- Mountain Home, ID shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Idaho in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.