CaseFormation2012

Bozeman, MT, USA

Reddish formation of dots in "Y" shape

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-06-02
Where
Bozeman, MT, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.680, -111.039 · exact
Slug
formation-over-bozeman-mt-2012-2e7d3b
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…

In context

  • Bozeman, MT shows up 71 times across the archive.
  • 74 reports came from Montana in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

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.