UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Helena, MT, USA

A line of about 30 flashing red lights heading southeast. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-09
Where
Helena, MT, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
46.593, -112.036 · exact
Slug
other-over-helena-mt-2017-e5aebd
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…

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In context

  • Helena, MT has 61 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 49 reports from Montana.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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