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Montana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 994 UFO sighting reports in Montana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (214 reports, 21.53% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (128 reports, 12.88% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (192 reports, 19.32% of total).
- 12/09/17 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 1.01% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (74 reports, 7.44% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (474 reports, 47.69% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Montana
These Montana UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Estimated 8 white lights in geometric shape Cluster of solid white lights moving slowly on steady line above horizon but not directly overhead. They were like a geometric pattern. Not a plane or helicopter.
No apparent structure. No noise. Kind of like a chandelier.
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Humming sound drew my attention to look out window, saw flying object move toward/over where our home is and neighboring property My wife and I got home late from an event and while getting ready for bed noticed a humming sound coming from the front yard/street area outside. It was loud enough to wonder what was outside so I opened the curtains and couldn’t see anything but humming seemed louder and I could feel vibration on the window. It was 0° so the window was fogged and couldn’t see much but it was very concerning that I could feel vibration on window.
Made me feel like it was a machine inside our home. Then I noticed an orange / reddish set of lights much like an airplane but too close to be a commercial airplane flying somewhat slowly for a plane toward our home and the neighbors and over. Then it disappeared and the humming/vibration was gone with it.
Maybe possibly a helicopter but the sound and vibration was very odd and why would a helicopter be around our neighborhood at 10:15pm.
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Looked like a string of lights after a rectangular shaped object sort of like a piece of paper angled like you’re looking at it's edge Driving from house in skill above horizon slanted and not moving really. Not linear satellites or orb shaped. Called son to tell him to get binoculars.
We have limited light pollution. As I went to adjust video on camera it just faded away (did not disperse).
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5+ white lights circling/maneuvering from our perspective over or beyond Malmstrom Airforce Base. Lights changed in intensity as they turned like a landing light would on an aircraft.
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Reviewing videos to take screen shots, slowed the video down and saw a spec/sphere move across the video following a flight path. Driving from Many Glacier to Essex MT through Babb Mt. Headed south on HWY 89, we had just turned left onto State HWY 464.
It was the faster route back. We looked to our left saw Chief Mountain, I asked my girlfriend to grab a photo, all she grabbed was a quick 2-second video, so then I could screen shot a photo of Chief Mt. (We do that, grab videos then take screen shots) Later that day reviewing photos I was trying to find a good screen shot from the video, as I slowed the video down there was a spec in each frame of the video.
I blew it off at first but it looked as if the spec was following a track/pathway. Each frame the spec/sphere/shape moved and looked a bit different and followed a path with a slight turn/arch in the last couple frames. This video is shot with an iPhone14Pro while we are traveling at least 75mph.
I will send you the original video but you don’t see it until the speed is decreased. I would have never seen this if I was not editing a random 2 second video, just for a decent photo. It’s pretty remarkable that this 2 sec clip might have caught something.
Definitely hesitant to send this is, because as it is odd it also could just be a bug, bird or debris. I guess why it’s unidentified. Hope the videos uploaded.
Thank You.
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Cube shaped item w no visible propulsion means. Followed shortly thereafter by three jets I am going to keep this brief because I can’t believe I am reporting it. I saw a cube shaped flying item, it appeared to have louvers, too high for a drone and too low for a helicopter.
No means of propulsion: no heat trails, no propeller, no noise. It was steel and white. I only saw one angle.
I went right tf back inside. Less than 30 min thereafter three jets flew low overhead.
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Two Black cubes flew between clouds I went outside to see what was going on after a huge gust of wind hit my house (I almost got knocked over when I stepped outside), when I went outside there was almost like a comet trail in the sky. The wind would die down and creep back up again. I watched the haze for about 5-10 minutes as it moved Southwest.
After that I decided to go back inside the house. But before I got back in I saw a super quick flash of light, almost like lightning, but way faster (like under a second long). In total I saw 2 flashes.
I decided to stay back outside since it startled me. I looked back up and there was an opening in the clouds directly over my house. I saw two black cube objects with no lights visible fly from one cloud to another moving South.
From what I saw both objects were gray/black and were in the shape of a cube. I have had UFO encounters before, such as objects in the sky similar to tonights. I have had one encounter with what I think is Bigfoot.
Through-out my life I have had multiple weird encounters with UFO/Un-documented creatures (I.e Bigfoot). I posted about this on Facebook and multiple people (In Montana & Utah) have stated similar encounters, the encounter in Utah, which occurred roughly 1 hour ago, saw similar flashing lights.
Him and his friend grabbed their phone to try to get a photo/video but were unsuccessful. Other people in Flathead County are saying they saw the same haze effect before I saw the UFOs. I strongly think the haze is Northern Lights although what strikes me as very weird is every time I have seen the Northern Lights they have been towards the North.
Not to the West like tonight. I have provided a short time lapse I took of the haze. I did not see any other streaks of haze in the sky.
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Saw a super bright star and thought it might be moving. So I grabbed my cellphone and started recording. Then it really started moving.
I was outside going to the bathroom before I leave for work and noticed a really bright star. I thought it was kind of shimmering/moving but really couldn’t tell for sure. I said to myself on my way back to my camper that if it’s still shimmering that I was going to grab my phone and start recording.
It really starts moving around and blinked once, when I start recording, I held my phone as still as possible. I think the video speaks for itself. I’m a simple person, live simple, don’t have much.
I don’t do social media and never been on Facebook etc. Not the kind of person that takes pictures or videos of things.
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A triangle of lights with no sound and faint went across the sky super fast one of the lights in the back dropped off and caught backup A triangle of lights flew fast across from west to east over Bozeman with no sounds and so high it was faint one of the lights went back off formation then caught right back up.
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3 white lights evenly spaced in a straight line I seen a fast moving formation of 3 lights in a straight line that had a definition of a dark/haze cylinder shaped object I could make out that the lights were on. It was moving very fast and almost seemed to fade away. About 20 minutes later it flew back in the exact same spot I seen it the first time headed the opposite direction.
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This object was caught on video in 30fps when filming at the Blue Angles air show. This object is moving so fast it could not be seen by the eye in real time. I happened to catch this when filming the Blue Angels in 30fps and did not notice until the following day.
The object is moving from South to North across the sky at very high speeds. For reference at this moment the Blue Angles are moving at 200+ MPH in this video. The object appears at the 10sec mark of this video, between the Blue Angles grouping and the person in frame, at the top of the screen.
I have confirmed with my camera that objects entering the frame after the record starts will also be slowed to 30fps. I know that it is requested to only submit objects seen, but this is object is moving so fast it would likely not been detected.
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Fiery "ball" object seen way up in the distance - it hovered in one spot, then moved to the east maybe 1000 yards and paused again. To the naked eye, and at 10x true optical zoom, the UFO was a fiery ball, way up in the night sky. It hovered South of Mount Helena, beyond the city of Helena, for about 30 seconds it stayed in place, then it gradually moved laterally to the east and stayed there for about another 30 seconds before vanishing.
6 people saw this. I took a photo at 10x zoom, and it still looks like a fiery sphere-shaped object, though when I zoomed in to 100x zoom, it appears to be more rectangular with a darker center (giving me the thought that this object is outputting a very strong coronal glow. After taking the last photo, the object disappeared 10 seconds later.
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I was outside on my back deck when I looked up and saw a bright light moving extremely fast for an air craft and made no sound! I was outside on my back deck when I looked up and saw a bright light moving extremely fast for an air craft, it was so bright I had to close my eyes and open them to see to light changing colors from red and white to blue and white, it was a beautiful color mix that almost looked like a military grade flare but without the fire and made no sound! , I went to bed last night thinking about what I saw and I knew I had to say something because I know for a fact that it wasn’t a satellite or a plane, if you saw this on the 30th of July 2023 we may have seen the same unidentified flying object.
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I've seen several of these the past 5 years. Differs from visible airplane lights on the right side of the screen. Note the light (ORB) slowing dropping from the top left corner.
There's airplane lights to the right to compare to.
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Blinking white orb following air liner heading for Billings Airport Close to the tale exhaust of Jet was a blinking white orb following the tale fumes just following. Didn't have camera device. I rubbed my eyes several times perhaps it was bad vision.
But never went away as the jet faded from my view.
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Saw bright lights in the moved upwards and interacted with each other eventually fading out 1 by 1. I was at work it was 1249 am partially raining off and on. I saw the light orbs sitting stationary.
It was two of them, stationary in the sky I saw this from a window at my work, I hurried outside to see more a total of 3 they were slowly rising then would slightly stop then fade out quickly only to have another appear below. They emitted a bright reddish color I took a few videos. And your thing says it exceeds the size I would happily email you the videos, I also posted it on my YouTube page if that’s easier I couldn't believe it and after the thing in Las Vegas I'm petrified.
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A round object that didn't move in one spot. I have to share with you guys what I saw in the sky on the way home from work in Bozeman, Montana in the morning of June 2nd, Thursday. It was around 5:45am in the morning.
I thought I saw UFO. A little shiny metall round or something that didn't move, just still in one spot. Color.
grey or silver that looks like dark shiny metal or something. I was on West Oak Street on the way to North Rouse Avenue. There's a few warehouses, small restaurants and stores like a tiny mall.
I drove past a building that blocked my view for about 5 seconds. After I passed a building, it disappeared completely. No time to take a picture during I was driving.
FYI, I am a deaf paranormal investigator.
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Above Browning montana I noticed movement in the sky, it was a bright light, I went back into my house for my glasses, came back out and couldn’t find it. Then my husband came out and we found it going east then. It started from the west.
It continued to move in an almost slow gliding way and then it like disappeared.
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Noticed stationary structure on mountainside of national forest land with no tracks or visible way of having gotten to location While in Somers by Flathead Lake I noticed a large dark non snow covered structure on the mountain side. This mountain is land that is not allowed to be accessed with gas powered vehicles and had just had fresh snowfall. This structure was stationary and I did not witness it get to its standing location but there is no evidence of tracks or snow disruption showing how it got there.
There are two avalanche appearing areas below the corners of the structure that would be consistent with a landing large structure. No lights or motion was seen around the structure. It was there for several hours and I had left the area and am unsure if it is still presently there.
My spouse saw the same structure at what we believe is the same location from Bigfork. I saw this structure while with a friend who agreed that it did not make sense that an object that large would be on that mountain. I have never witnessed UFO nor do I claim to have ever experienced an interaction with extraterrestrial but I do believe in extraterrestrial beings and believe that this structure may very likely be an extraterrestrial vehicle of some sorts.
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Two lights moving in symmetry. I noticed two red lights in the sky. They were holding still.
If a line was drawn between the lights connecting them, it would be at about a 30 degree angle to the horizon. They stayed in this position for about 30 seconds. I called my kids to see it.
We watched the lights remain at this 30 degree angle until they started to drift away from each other. Each light move at the same pace as the other light. They each moved symmetrically away from each other, but remained in that 30 degree angle.
Then the lights rotated around each other symmetrically. One light went lower as the other light went higher. Each light's movement and speed mirrored the others.
This rotatation was about 180 degrees and only took the lights 3-5 seconds to complete. The lights then moved upwards and west into a cloud bank. I did not see the lights again.
No sound was heard.
Montana UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 214 reported sightings | 21.53% of all reports |
Circle | 89 reported sightings | 8.95% of all reports |
Triangle | 83 reported sightings | 8.35% of all reports |
Fireball | 82 reported sightings | 8.25% of all reports |
Unknown | 75 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
Other | 61 reported sightings | 6.14% of all reports |
Sphere | 60 reported sightings | 6.04% of all reports |
Disk | 54 reported sightings | 5.43% of all reports |
Oval | 38 reported sightings | 3.82% of all reports |
Formation | 28 reported sightings | 2.82% of all reports |
Flash | 26 reported sightings | 2.62% of all reports |
Changing | 21 reported sightings | 2.11% of all reports |
Cigar | 21 reported sightings | 2.11% of all reports |
Diamond | 15 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
Chevron | 13 reported sightings | 1.31% of all reports |
Rectangle | 11 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Cylinder | 10 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Teardrop | 8 reported sightings | 0.80% of all reports |
Egg | 6 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
Cone | 3 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Cross | 3 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Star | 3 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Cube | 2 reported sightings | 0.20% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 128 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
August | 106 reported sightings | 10.66% of all reports |
June | 106 reported sightings | 10.66% of all reports |
November | 84 reported sightings | 8.45% of all reports |
October | 82 reported sightings | 8.25% of all reports |
January | 80 reported sightings | 8.05% of all reports |
December | 78 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
September | 75 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
March | 69 reported sightings | 6.94% of all reports |
February | 66 reported sightings | 6.64% of all reports |
April | 55 reported sightings | 5.53% of all reports |
May | 52 reported sightings | 5.23% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 192 reported sightings | 19.32% of all reports |
Thursday | 138 reported sightings | 13.88% of all reports |
Tuesday | 135 reported sightings | 13.58% of all reports |
Sunday | 131 reported sightings | 13.18% of all reports |
Monday | 130 reported sightings | 13.08% of all reports |
Friday | 128 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
Wednesday | 127 reported sightings | 12.78% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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12/09/17 | 10 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
06/02/12 | 4 reported sightings | 0.40% of all reports |
05/15/21 | 3 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
08/14/11 | 3 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
12/31/13 | 3 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 474 reported sightings | 47.69% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 176 reported sightings | 17.71% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 152 reported sightings | 15.29% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 81 reported sightings | 8.15% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 56 reported sightings | 5.63% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 42 reported sightings | 4.23% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Montana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Montana.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Montana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Montana