CaseLight2005

Great Falls, MT, USA

First Incident: At 21:55 I was outside and noticed a light in the sky moving. It looked just like a star. There was no flashing strobe

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 (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-01
Where
Great Falls, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes each
Geo
47.500, -111.301 · exact
Slug
light-over-great-falls-mt-2005-142c6f
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 54 documented reports from Great Falls, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 29 sightings in 2005.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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