Montana City, MT, USA
A bright, white, scintillating, pencil-shaped light over the Elkhorn Mountains observed for 3 minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-21
- Where
- Montana City, MT, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 46.538, -111.933 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-montana-city-mt-2014-83ec71
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
- Montana City, MT has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 56 reports from Montana.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.