Great Falls, MT, USA
Bright gold light appears stationary over Great Falls, suddenly moves away; large platform with red lights.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-24
- Where
- Great Falls, MT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.500, -111.301 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-great-falls-mt-2017-2685c2
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 54 reports logged in Great Falls, MT.
- This case is one of 49 Montana reports filed in 2017.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.