Hays, MT, USA
Moving, red, yellow, orange, blue, green dancing and blinking in the western sky near Hays. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-02-18
- Where
- Hays, MT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 47.989, -108.694 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hays-mt-2007-64e1cc
Part of a wave
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
- Hays, MT has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 20 reports from Montana.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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