CaseCircle2014

Bigfork, MT, USA

Big balls of light in the sky darting around.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-30
Where
Bigfork, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
48.063, -114.073 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bigfork-mt-2014-6e665a
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

  • Bigfork, MT has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 56 reports from Montana.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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