CaseRectangle2018

Boise, ID, USA

I was in a cab heading towards town when I looked into the sky and noticed a small rectangular prism. The whole object was reflective a

Report quality: High73/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-10-12
Where
Boise, ID, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
43.614, -116.203 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-boise-id-2018-304a1e
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Boise, ID reports filed in October 2018.

In context

  • Boise, ID shows up 318 times across the archive.
  • 46 reports came from Idaho in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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