UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1977

Rural, MT, USA

Lights in the night sky tracked us after completing maintenance on an ICBM

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-01-31
Where
Rural, MT, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.313, -89.153 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-rural-mt-1977-586de2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Rural, MT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Montana logged 2 sightings in 1977.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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