Whitefish, MT, USA
((HOAX??)) Amber orb floating east of Whitefish Lake, moving towards backroad to blue moon. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-10-06
- Where
- Whitefish, MT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15
- Geo
- 48.411, -114.338 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-whitefish-mt-2016-9c269b
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 22 reports logged in Whitefish, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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