UFOMYST
CaseOval2012

East Helena, MT, USA

Orangy colored aircraft with faceted lights and traveling the pace of an airplane but disappeared vertically into the sky after 30 sec.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-31
Where
East Helena, MT, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
46.590, -111.916 · exact
Slug
oval-over-east-helena-mt-2012-f070b1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • East Helena, MT has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 74 reports from Montana.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

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.