CaseLight2013

Bozeman, MT, USA

The sun was just going down and we saw a very bright light in the sky to the west. I asked my girlfriend if she saw it, she did but sa

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-13
Where
Bozeman, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
21:00
Geo
45.680, -111.039 · exact
Slug
light-over-bozeman-mt-2013-45b1cc
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…

In context

  • Bozeman, MT shows up 71 times across the archive.
  • 52 reports came from Montana in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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