CaseUnknown2009
Big Sandy, MT, USA
Flicker lights seen in the night sky south of Big Sandy.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 990s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-12
- Where
- Big Sandy, MT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 12-21 Minutes
- Geo
- 48.179, -110.112 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-big-sandy-mt-2009-0b0a17
Wave
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
- Big Sandy, MT shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from Montana in 2009.
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.