UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Kalispell, MT, USA

Bright light getting brighter and shrinking to its' center a beacon went back and forth across the sky. ((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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 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
2004-03-16
Where
Kalispell, MT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
48.196, -114.313 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kalispell-mt-2004-83d727
Wave

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In context

  • One of 51 documented reports from Kalispell, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 27 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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