UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Butte, MT, USA

Bright orange light flew over silverbow nw turned around flew back over and hovered over the easf ridge joining another for 30min.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-24
Where
Butte, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
46.004, -112.535 · exact
Slug
light-over-butte-mt-2017-783ae4
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

  • One of 43 documented reports from Butte, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 49 sightings in 2017.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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