UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Bozeman, MT, USA

A point of light similar to a satellite flew at high speed and made several turns of 90 degrees or less.

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-12
Where
Bozeman, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
almost a minute
Geo
45.680, -111.039 · exact
Slug
light-over-bozeman-mt-2004-1ca523
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Bozeman, MT shows up 71 times across the archive.
  • 27 reports came from Montana in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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