CaseCircle1977

Sidney, MT, USA

Small saucer with red, green and blue lights.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-11-15
Where
Sidney, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
47.717, -104.156 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sidney-mt-1977-c59035
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Sidney, MT.
  • This case is one of 2 Montana reports filed in 1977.
  • Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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