Poplar, MT, USA
Extremely bright super fast flashing lights up in the atmosphere performing sharp degree turns.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-26
- Where
- Poplar, MT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 48.113, -105.198 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-poplar-mt-2016-7a3389
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
- Poplar, MT shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Montana in 2016.
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.