CaseDiamond1999
Butte, MT, USA
We were driving & just cleared the top of the Continental Divide when we spotted a huge light in the sky just ahead of the car. It was
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-20
- Where
- Butte, MT, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 min. app.
- Geo
- 46.004, -112.535 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-butte-mt-1999-eea42d
In context
- Butte, MT has 43 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 23 reports from Montana.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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