UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Butte, MT, USA

Saw orb that moved around the moon and got pictures. NUFORC Note: Lens flares. PD))

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-17
Where
Butte, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
46.004, -112.535 · exact
Slug
circle-over-butte-mt-2021-dd9459
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

  • This is one of 43 reports logged in Butte, MT.
  • This case is one of 6 Montana reports filed in 2021.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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