Helena, MT, USA
appx. 50' triangular, lighted craft hovering @ 100', then moving away proportionately as I approached.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-01
- Where
- Helena, MT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 min.
- Geo
- 46.593, -112.036 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-helena-mt-2004-a74d5f
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 61 reports logged in Helena, MT.
- This case is one of 27 Montana reports filed in 2004.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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