Billings, MT, USA
6 sightings of red-orange crafts over Billings, MT, July 4th, 2011, 10pm to 11pm.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-04
- Where
- Billings, MT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 45.783, -108.501 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-billings-mt-2011-4e7df6
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
- Billings, MT shows up 78 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Montana in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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