CaseCircle2005

Whitefish, MT, USA

Bright flying object with red and white flashing lights, soundless, moving erradically.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-26
Where
Whitefish, MT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
48.411, -114.338 · exact
Slug
circle-over-whitefish-mt-2005-c47b37
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

  • One of 22 documented reports from Whitefish, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 29 sightings in 2005.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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