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CaseLight2018

Bozeman, MT, USA

Was taking out the trash, looked up and saw 4 bright red/orange lights. I'm not wearing glasses so the lights appeared to me very big.

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-28
Where
Bozeman, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
45.680, -111.039 · exact
Slug
light-over-bozeman-mt-2018-62ddd1
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…

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In context

  • Bozeman, MT shows up 71 times across the archive.
  • 30 reports came from Montana in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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