CaseLight1997

Billings, MT, USA

Two bright red lights moving in perfect formation flew over Billings on the evening of Jan.12, 1997. They were flying at an altitude n

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-12
Where
Billings, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes or less
Geo
45.783, -108.501 · exact
Slug
light-over-billings-mt-1997-6e616e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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

  • Billings, MT has 78 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 12 reports from Montana.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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