Reed Point, MT, USA
Bright red flashing light hovering seen by a rancher and wife in SE Sweet grass county, MT
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-17
- Where
- Reed Point, MT, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.709, -109.542 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-reed-point-mt-2019-2e736f
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
- Reed Point, MT has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 61 reports from Montana.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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