UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Butte, MT, USA

My sighting tonight has me more freaked out than ever. Even though Im a science nut and enjoy reading about the history of UFO's and se

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-10
Where
Butte, MT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 to 3 minutes
Geo
46.004, -112.535 · exact
Slug
light-over-butte-mt-2008-96ab0f
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

  • Butte, MT has 43 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 19 reports from Montana.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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