Missoula, MT, USA
A color changing circle with wavy edges and a beam coming out the bottom. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-02-11
- Where
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 min.
- Geo
- 46.872, -113.994 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-missoula-mt-2006-3b2b8b
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 76 reports logged in Missoula, MT.
- This case is one of 26 Montana reports filed in 2006.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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