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
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
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 daysReport
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.