Casecylinder1997
Billings, MT, USA
Dark gray, cylindrical, object about 100m wide and 40m tall. Hovered in circle, about 20 miles away.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-23
- Where
- Billings, MT, USA
- Shape
- cylinder
- Duration
- 16:30-16:33
- Geo
- 45.783, -108.501 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-billings-mt-1997-27fe1e
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Billings, MT has 78 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 12 reports from Montana.
- The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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