CaseFireball1997
Wolf Point, MT, USA
Ball of light in Wolf Point Montana May 21, 1997
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-21
- Where
- Wolf Point, MT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 48.091, -105.641 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wolf-point-mt-1997-36220a
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Wolf Point, MT has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 12 reports from Montana.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.