Butte, MT, USA
Red lights in triangular formation zip accross Butte sky in 2-3 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-15
- Where
- Butte, MT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 46.004, -112.535 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-butte-mt-2012-dbc4f6
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…
In context
- One of 43 documented reports from Butte, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Montana logged 74 sightings in 2012.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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