Missoula, MT, USA
My friend and I looked up and saw a blueish grey circle, it would fly in a small circle then disappear. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-11
- Where
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 46.872, -113.994 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-missoula-mt-2017-a0eb33
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
Missoula, MT logged 3 reports in the single month of November 2017.
In context
- One of 76 documented reports from Missoula, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Montana logged 49 sightings in 2017.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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