Jordan, MT, USA
25 mi. from Jordan, MT, driving North on hwy 200, 740pm Nov. 17th, 2016,...the sky suddenly lit up, so bright like it was daytime.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-17
- Where
- Jordan, MT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- 47.321, -106.910 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-jordan-mt-2016-6723f3
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Jordan, MT.
- This case is one of 49 Montana reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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