UFOMYST
CaseFlash2012

Bozeman, MT, USA

There was a blue flash south of Bozeman, MT that ended with a blue light dropping downward.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-06
Where
Bozeman, MT, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
seconds
Geo
45.680, -111.039 · exact
Slug
flash-over-bozeman-mt-2012-bd3fe5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 71 documented reports from Bozeman, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 74 sightings in 2012.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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