UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2011

Billings/Laurel, MT, USA

Rectangular white object hovers, flashed lights, disappears over Billings/ Laurel Montana, mid day, 7-16-11.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-16
Where
Billings/Laurel, MT, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
45.783, -108.501 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-billings-laurel-mt-2011-0aeec4
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

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Billings/Laurel, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 49 sightings in 2011.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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