CaseTeardrop2011

Missoula, MT, USA

Orange and firery ball above Missoula MT

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-05
Where
Missoula, MT, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
Geo
46.872, -113.994 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-missoula-mt-2011-85222e
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

  • Missoula, MT has 76 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 49 reports from Montana.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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