CaseUnknown2019

Red Lodge, MT, USA

Extremely bright multicolored orb larger than a star appeared to be suspended in the sky at about 30,000 feet.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-25
Where
Red Lodge, MT, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
45.186, -109.247 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-red-lodge-mt-2019-feaf4b
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from Red Lodge, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 61 sightings in 2019.

Report

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