Florence, MT, USA
We were watching for the ISS to the west and noticed a very bright light blink on then off and this happened 3 time with 30 seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-28
- Where
- Florence, MT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 46.632, -114.079 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-florence-mt-2019-4dc2ea
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
- Florence, MT shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 61 reports came from Montana in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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