UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

MT, USA

((HOAX??)) I saw a UFO late at night, split into 3 mini saucers that flew in opposite directions. ((NUFORC Note: Flaw in date. PD))

Report quality: Low9/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-04-05
Where
MT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
—
Geo
—
Slug
fireball-over-mt-2017-ec5445
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

  • 2017 brought 49 reports from Montana.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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