UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Bigfork, MT, USA

Bright Orange in color like hot metal, deffinatly metal of some kind it made no sound and sat just above the trees at least as big as 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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-15
Where
Bigfork, MT, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 hours
Geo
48.063, -114.073 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bigfork-mt-1997-f443f9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Bigfork, MT shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Montana in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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