Bozeman, MT, USA
20 objects in a straight line broke off figure eights separate directions
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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 (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-06
- Where
- Bozeman, MT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10mins
- Geo
- 45.680, -111.039 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-bozeman-mt-2020-3a92e4
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
- Bozeman, MT shows up 71 times across the archive.
- 56 reports came from Montana in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.