Butte, MT, USA
Bright red, blue, & yellow lighted objects, viewed over Butte, MT. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Sirius. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-01-09
- Where
- Butte, MT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 46.004, -112.535 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-butte-mt-2015-47428d
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 has 43 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 60 reports from Montana.
Report
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