UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Missoula, MT, USA

Third sighting in 2 weeks, bright glowing solid white/yellow orb over Montana; definitely not a star or planet; moving slowly

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-06-30
Where
Missoula, MT, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
hours
Geo
46.872, -113.994 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-missoula-mt-2009-3521b6
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

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Missoula, MT reports filed in June 2009.

In context

  • Missoula, MT shows up 76 times across the archive.
  • 32 reports came from Montana in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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