Butte, MT, USA
Sphere/fireball seen during fireworks
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-03
- Where
- Butte, MT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 to 3 min
- Geo
- 46.004, -112.535 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-butte-mt-2011-a939e4
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…
Local cluster
July 2011 was a busy month for Butte, MT: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 43 reports logged in Butte, MT.
- This case is one of 49 Montana reports filed in 2011.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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