CaseOther2019

Deer Lodge, MT, USA

During a servere lightning storm there was a beam of white light coming down behind the clouds and was visible between two clouds. This

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-20
Where
Deer Lodge, MT, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
Seconds
Geo
46.396, -112.730 · exact
Slug
other-over-deer-lodge-mt-2019-8f149e
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

  • Deer Lodge, MT has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 61 reports from Montana.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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