Missoula, MT, USA
It was super fast looked small but surrounded by a blue like flame around it. Was going so fast and just blinked out.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-05
- Where
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 6 seconds 10 tops
- Geo
- 46.872, -113.994 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-missoula-mt-2022-40b80b
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
- Missoula, MT shows up 76 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Montana in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate 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.