CaseLight2011

Billings, MT, USA

Dogs woke me up close to midnight needing to be let out for a nature call. I went out on back deck facing east and sat to relax. I look

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-14
Where
Billings, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-4minutes
Geo
45.783, -108.501 · exact
Slug
light-over-billings-mt-2011-6a9fe2
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

  • One of 78 documented reports from Billings, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 49 sightings in 2011.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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