UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Bigfork, MT, USA

Comet-like craft moving northeast across sky.

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: 23s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-15
Where
Bigfork, MT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
23 seconds
Geo
48.063, -114.073 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bigfork-mt-2016-8d01e9
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Bigfork, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 49 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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