CaseCircle2020

Lewistown, MT, USA

4 ships appeared, then equally separated. Next a larger object appeared and they all disappeared quickly. I was out smoking and watched

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-25
Where
Lewistown, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
47.062, -109.428 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lewistown-mt-2020-b7ec4d
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…

In context

  • Lewistown, MT shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 56 reports came from Montana in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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