12 miles east of Culbertson,Mt., MT, USA
Observed what appeared to be a possible Taurids comet or fire ball that was whitish/yellow in color and appeared to on fire.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-11-14
- Where
- 12 miles east of Culbertson,Mt., MT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Approx.5 sec.
- Geo
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- Slug
- sphere-over-12-miles-east-of-culbertson-mt-mt-2020-49c0b4
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
- One of 1 documented reports from 12 miles east of Culbertson,Mt., MT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Montana logged 56 sightings in 2020.
- Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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