Helena, MT, USA
An aircraft with very bright green lights plummeted out of the sky then flew unexplainable speeds back into the night sky.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-23
- Where
- Helena, MT, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 46.593, -112.036 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-helena-mt-2013-30f82e
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
- Helena, MT has 61 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 52 reports from Montana.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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