Boise, ID, USA
Unknown orb observed for 4 hours.
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-19
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-boise-id-2018-465ec1
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Boise, ID in July 2018 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Boise, ID has 318 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 46 reports from Idaho.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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