CaseFireball1972
Billings, MT, USA
A witness in Billings, Montana reported three blue, round fireball-like lights that split off in three different directions during a thirty-second sighting in June 1972.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-30
- Where
- Billings, MT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 45.783, -108.501 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-billings-mt-1972-15fa82
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In context
- Billings, MT shows up 78 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Montana in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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