Great falls, MT, USA
Appeared to be artificial light that bursted randomly out of montana sky's then tapered off as the object seemed to be falling towards
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-03
- Where
- Great falls, MT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 seconds maybe less
- Geo
- 47.500, -111.301 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-great-falls-mt-2020-3f820d
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 56 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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