CaseLight2013

Boise, ID, USA

Strange Orange Light over Boise, ID.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-12-31
Where
Boise, ID, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
43.614, -116.203 · exact
Slug
light-over-boise-id-2013-bd9d03
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Boise, ID in December 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Boise, ID has 318 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 102 reports from Idaho.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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