CaseFireball2011

Wolf Point, MT, USA

Orange red ball of light or orb.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-07-04
Where
Wolf Point, MT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 mins
Geo
48.091, -105.641 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wolf-point-mt-2011-fa373f
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Wolf Point, MT reports filed in July 2011.

In context

  • Wolf Point, MT shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 49 reports came from Montana in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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