Butte, MT, USA
Walked out to smoke looked up. There was a triangular object with orange lights traveling slowly. Then it just went up straight up into
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-20
- Where
- Butte, MT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 46.004, -112.535 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-butte-mt-2017-260956
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
- Butte, MT shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Montana in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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