UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

Butte, MT, USA

I was driving east from Continental Drive onto Farrell Street and I saw an aircraft I thought was a small plane. I thought, "what kind

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-01
Where
Butte, MT, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2minutes
Geo
46.004, -112.535 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-butte-mt-2004-a521fa
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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In context

  • One of 43 documented reports from Butte, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 27 sightings in 2004.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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