Missoula, MT, USA
Ten orange bottomed objects seemed to shape-shift, one blacked out its light as it swooped down over the city.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-24
- Where
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 46.872, -113.994 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-missoula-mt-2015-c990c9
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 Missoula, MT in April 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Missoula, MT has 76 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 60 reports from Montana.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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