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
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- 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
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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%).
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