East Helena, MT, USA
Extreamly bright circular light floating & changing shape in the early morning sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-22
- Where
- East Helena, MT, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 45 min
- Geo
- 46.590, -111.916 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-east-helena-mt-2009-7f20ad
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…
In context
- East Helena, MT has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 32 reports from Montana.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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