UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Billings, MT, USA

Cigar-shaped object flies from horizon to horizon over Billings, Montana.

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-23
Where
Billings, MT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
45.783, -108.501 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-billings-mt-1997-ff7078
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Billings, MT shows up 78 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Montana in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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