Virginia City, MT, USA
While elk hunting South of town I sighted a huge object which was shiny like mylar or a mirror but seemed metalic. It was shaped like a
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-10-25
- Where
- Virginia City, MT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 45.294, -111.946 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-virginia-city-mt-1978-c9faeb
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Virginia City, MT.
- This case is one of 2 Montana reports filed in 1978.
- Other craft made up 6.5% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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