Whitefish, MT, USA
We looked up and saw what we thought was a star or a planet then it took off and became a dim light. ((anonymous report))
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-12
- Where
- Whitefish, MT, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 48.411, -114.338 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-whitefish-mt-2019-d6214d
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…
In context
- One of 22 documented reports from Whitefish, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Montana logged 61 sightings in 2019.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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