Great Falls, MT, USA
First Incident: At 21:55 I was outside and noticed a light in the sky moving. It looked just like a star. There was no flashing strobe
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-01
- Where
- Great Falls, MT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes each
- Geo
- 47.500, -111.301 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-great-falls-mt-2005-142c6f
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
- One of 54 documented reports from Great Falls, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Montana logged 29 sightings in 2005.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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