CaseLight1999
Butte (Approx 40 miles S. of, on NB Interstate 15), MT, USA
Low flying red & white light, traveling from left to right, which stopped mid air, darted backward, spun around and drift/darted around
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-16
- Where
- Butte (Approx 40 miles S. of, on NB Interstate 15), MT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 46.004, -112.535 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-butte-approx-40-miles-s-of-on-nb-interstate-15-mt-1999-739fbc
In context
- Butte (Approx 40 miles S. of, on NB Interstate 15), MT has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 23 reports from Montana.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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