CaseFireball1997

Wolf Point, MT, USA

Ball of light in Wolf Point Montana May 21, 1997

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-21
Where
Wolf Point, MT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
48.091, -105.641 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wolf-point-mt-1997-36220a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Wolf Point, MT has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 12 reports from Montana.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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