UFOMYST
CaseCircle2022

Bozeman, MT, USA

Orange round circle in western sky by Bozeman MTmall and East main area was not fireworks it hovered and shot up into northern west sky

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-01-01
Where
Bozeman, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
45.680, -111.039 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bozeman-mt-2022-a97565
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 71 reports logged in Bozeman, MT.
  • This case is one of 7 Montana reports filed in 2022.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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.