CaseCircle2016

Helena, MT, USA

I observed 2 large, circular, bright, white lights in the evening sky tonight, before any stars were shining.

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-03
Where
Helena, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
46.593, -112.036 · exact
Slug
circle-over-helena-mt-2016-18f05d
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 61 reports logged in Helena, MT.
  • This case is one of 49 Montana reports filed in 2016.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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