Montana UFO Sightings in 1993

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6-7 hr. long event during which a triangle,disks and an IMMENSE cylindrical object were observed clearly at close range and through optics. This is actually a case of 2 separate incidents exactly one week apart.

A family friend is a landowner in central MT near the town of Harlowton.As such, he invited my family up to his place (great fishing & hunting)any time our hearts desired.Over the years my brothers and I became intimately familiar with every canyon and creek on the ranch.

We also began to realize that a lot more seemed to be going on there than at first met the eye and everything culminated in the event(s) I will describe. On this particular evening, my brother and I had just exited a thick patch of trees after a long day of deer hunting. It was nearly dark,the first stars were out and we had about a mile walk back to our truck.

Being aware of anomalies in the area, we were always on the lookout for ANYTHING out of the "ordinary". Well, upon looking to the eastern sky , we both saw 3 "stars" that seemed to be brighter than the rest. These lights were stationary at this point and seemed to be regular stars out in space.

I remember saying to my brother that maybe they were planets and we would check it out at home.We then continued on our hike to the truck and went home- nothing unusual.This is where it starts getting strange.

One week later almost to the minute,my brother and I emerged from the same patch of trees after hunting all day.As we again surveyed our surroundings, we again noticed the 3 stars from the week previous in the exact same place they had been then.Only this time they were a different color(orange) and seemed to be moving slightly in conjunction with each other.

Really interested now,we watched as the formation of lights gradually picked up speed coming in roughly our direction (west).We then realized that we were in a bad situation and started for the truck at a fast walk. Keeping an eye on the object, we observed it change direction to a more northerly heading and fly toward a low cloud formation, into which it flew.

By this point we could tell that this was no ordinary aircraft(as a student pilot with 10 yrs in ! aviation ,I'm familiar with nearly all known a/c).The object was close enough for us to see a structured triangular fuselage dark in color. It made absolutely no sound.

Upon the object entering the cloud, there was a flash of light similar to lightning but flourescent green in color. This was immediately followed by the object emerging from the cloud in roughly a 10 degree bank. As the object made it's way clear of the cloud, we observed the "cloud" literally change shape until it appeared like a tornado but horizontal to the earth not vertical, with the "foot" of the funnel pointing toward the object.

At this point we broke into a sprint for the truck. As we ran, the object literally DRAGGED this "tornado" to the west. We could see that the whole eastern horizon was black now.

Just as we reached the truck we were hit by huge gusts of wind and debris from the east and visibilty was around 2 feet. Concerned now, we piled into the truck to find that this reliable vehicle was completely dead( it was just like in the movies). With the nearest help miles away, we readied our rifles( made us feel better) and waited.

Total elapsed time so far approx. 6 min.The dust storm and confusion lasted for about 10 min then the wind stopped and the dust settled.

As visibility improved and things became quiet again, we could see.We could see objects- lots of them. Besides the original triangle a/c which was now making a 40-50nm circular flight pattern, we could see discs trailing the triangle, all moving independently.

(We were by now using our 10x50 Zeiss binocs) and could see that the discs were definitley metallic in nature. The most impressive object however was a gigantic cylinder that descended from nowhere then hovered approx 500ft agl around a 1000 yds distant, over a field. Peter, I swear to you on my Father's grave that along each side of this thing were "windows" in which it seemed like there was movement! It was around 2 football fields in length, approx.

700-1000 ft in diameter, and bright silver in color.The "front! end" gl owed blue, intensifying the farther one got from the center and the "rear end" glowed red in the same manner.What drew your eye though was the yellow and orange strobe exactly centered on the "bottom".

We watched this object in pure horror for about an hour until it ascended straight up and out of sight .It did not disappear in a split second but rose rapidly taking less than a minute to completely vanish.Well, back to the other objects, which were by now in the company of several F-15's.

It was VERY EASY to differentiate between the jets and the other objects. The F-15"s flew around for about a half hr.then headed NW in a tight formation and the triangle followed close behind, all disappearing over some hills to the NW-we never saw them again.

The discs continued to maneuver throughout the area.We had pretty much resigned ourselves to our fate by this point and now felt the worst was over.It all became rather entertaining by midnight.

We spent a cold night in the truck, falling asleep eventually watching these discs and their erratic flight. In the morning, our parents showed up to look for us and we gave them the whole story. They believed us but advised us to say nothing.

I just cant live with this secret any longer and felt it may be important as I believe I was a witness to some kind of WX manipulation Technology. I moved away soon after and hav'nt been back. I understand from friends that "things" are still happening there.

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A hovering object in the vicinity of "The Lady of the Mountains". Travelling North on interstate 15, just past Butte on a streach of road going uphill. I noticed a sphere hovering very near a statue referred to as the "Lady of the Mountains".

It was, what is commonly reguarded as, disk shaped with rounded dome and also rounded in a congruant fashion on the underside. Driving up the mountain I noticed that the craft was yellowish in color, gently changing it's hue to an orange and then back again. It remained stationary till I drove under and it disappeared due to my forward progress.

Thinking it was one of those safety devices used to warn low fling aircraft of hi-tension wire in the area, I was not overly suspicious. As I was coming back using the same route on my return trip a few days later I would check it out as to placement of the devices. To my surprise on that return, day-trip this time, I encountered several grey vans with strange looking antennaes emmanating from them on the mountain overlooking Helena going south.

What was even stranger were the personel. They were seemingly a bunch of "goodlooking" guys ages between 25 and 30 scurrying around in bluish-grey overalls. Going further south past Helena about 10 miles north of Butte, I again noticed similar vans with personel fitting the above description.

Guess what? When I got to the place where I saw the object there were no high tension wires, nor were there any warning devices strung along any of the smaller cables crossing the hi-way at that point. Even stranger was the reoccurance of vans further to the south, before one reached the town of Dillon, Mont. ((NUFORC Note: Date of incident may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact.

PD)).

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Floating Light, Like a Spotlight This event happened twelve years ago, so obviously some of the details may be fuzzy, but it happened nontheless. After my mom and I saw the UFO, I put it out of my mind for a while, I guess I was thinking we had just imagined it. Anyways, the subject came up with a good friend a little while ago.

I confessed to having seen what I thought was a UFO, and thinking she would laugh at me. However, she instead confessed her UFO experience that happened also many years ago in California. This got me thinking about it again, I brought it up with my mom to see if she remembered it and to see if it was really imagined.

My mom also remembers it vividly and also still wonders about it. Reading other stories on this site, it doesn't sound so spectatular, but for me it was an amazing thing that makes me believe that I don't yet understand everything about our world and other worlds. So.

what happened is that I was living with my family on a ranch near Pryor, MT, on the Crow Indian Reservation. The Pryor Mountains are rumored to be a scared ((sic--sacred??)) place and the Crows have many stories of bizarre occurances there, including UFO sitings. Still, didn't think we'd ever see one.

Where we were living is very remote. We did actually have one neighbor about a 1/2 mile away, other than that, there was no one for apx. 6 miles.

The house sat is a coulee between two ridges, with the Pryor mountains to the South of us. We were driving down the hill toward the house with a clear view across the valley to the other ridge. There, floating above the other ridge across from us was a very bright, large light, like a huge spotlight.

It just floated there for apx. 20-30 minutes. We sat and watched it for awhile, then went down to the house, came back out and it was still there.

When we next checked on it, it was gone. It was too large to be a car headlight, or a star, and too high off the ground for any other reasonable explanation. Hoping someone could shed some light (no pun intended) as to what we saw.

Thanks. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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3 individual lights flying at night straight up in the sky. This sighting happened in the summer of 1993 or 1994. My friends and I were playing cops and robbers, or hide and seek around the neighborhood.

I was age 13 and we were playing with my friends twin brothers who were 3 or 4 years younger and some of their friends. I was playing the part of the robber at the time and hiding out down the street sitting on a fence near the bottom horizontal support beam near the ground. So while I was waiting for them to come and find me I was looking up at the sky.

Soon what caught my eye was really cool! I saw three individual lights which appeared to be the same size as the stars around them flying towards each other. Two came from one side and one from the other. I am not too sure the exact flight path because I was looking straight up.

But I was facing West so I think the two lights were from the North and one light From the South. They stopped in the sky when they met up. I new the lights were not satellites because they didn’t keep on going.

They were also brighter then satellites appear in their orbits and flying as if controlled by something making adjustments and decisions. The lights then flew next to each other for a few seconds and flew around each other a bit as well. They moved back all together now to the North just a couple of stars over.

Then joined together as one and shot away straight up into space. I didn’t even finish the game and ran back to the house to tell everyone what I just saw. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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It was big and moved real slow. I was on leave from the US Army, when I was walking along the Agency Road, when I saw lights moving accross the prairie. It was moving a NE to SW direction in front of me, I was standing facing north.

AS THE Light crossed in front of me, I noticed that it had a dull or Dark color and that it was "Triangle shape. There was no sound,but it was really big! In fact,it really scared ((deleted)) me!!! As it got close to where I was standing, all the lights went out.The lights were originaly white,like car headlights, or more like aircraft landing lights.

I fly,so I know what they look like.