East Helena, MT, USA
Sighting of an arrowhead shaped craft about 100 feet over our heads with military escort.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-23
- Where
- East Helena, MT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15-20 min
- Geo
- 46.590, -111.916 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-east-helena-mt-2012-48040b
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in East Helena, MT.
- This case is one of 74 Montana reports filed in 2012.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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