UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2016

Meridian, ID, USA

Looked out my window at 5 am, saw a bright flashing coming from the UFO. It caught my attention when the flashes changed from blue.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-20
Where
Meridian, ID, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
43.612, -116.392 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-meridian-id-2016-858bed
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 54 documented reports from Meridian, ID in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Idaho logged 75 sightings in 2016.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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