CaseCigar2005

Great Falls, MT, USA

My son & I were driving down the road when I noticed a strange objet in the sky. The sky was clear blue and the object was in the shap

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-06
Where
Great Falls, MT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 min
Geo
47.500, -111.301 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-great-falls-mt-2005-dce781
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

  • This is one of 54 reports logged in Great Falls, MT.
  • This case is one of 29 Montana reports filed in 2005.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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