Last updated on June 1, 2024

Montana UFO Sightings in 2019

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Montana during 2019.

How many Montana UFO sightings were there in 2019?

  • There were 61 officially reported UFO sightings in Montana in 2019.
  • In 2019, Montana ranked #35 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Montana ranks #2 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 2019, with an average of 6.17 reports per 100,000 residents.

Montana Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 2019

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Helena, MT 9 UFO Reports
2 Billings, MT 5 UFO Reports
3 Great Falls, MT 4 UFO Reports
4 Hamilton, MT 4 UFO Reports
5 Bozeman, MT 3 UFO Reports

Montana UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 61 UFO sighting reports in Montana from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Montana UFO Sighting Reports in 2019

This is a sampling of 20 Montana UFO reports from 2019, 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).

Victor, MT

Full Report Text:

These look like satellites or missiles. They were in a line exact spacing apart, coming from the southwest. Could be SpaceX.

12/25/19 6:40 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 7 minutes

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East Helena, MT

Full Report Text:

star looking objects flying single file from the west to the north and dissapearing. None below describe it Outside on the patio tonight and noticed in the sky numerous white star looking objects coming up from the west to the north single file in a straight line and then hitting a certain spot in the sky and disappeared. At the end of the straight line two more came side by side and then disappeared at the same spot as the others.

Another came from what appears to be from the east going very very quickly to the west, and then disappeared. When we noticed the first lights going single file they were moving very quickly. Towards the end, they seemed to slow down.

Definitely not a plane as ironically a plane did go by and one of the lights appeared to cross right where the plane was in the sky. We live about 4 miles from the Helena Airport. However the lights began their single file from the west no where near the airport.

Any suggestions on what this would be? There were more than 2o of then I counted.

12/25/19 6:45 AM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 06:55

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Billings, MT

Full Report Text:

Moving Northwest from the West just above the horizon in a single file formation. We witnessed 25 to 30 lights spaced evenly apart above the Earth floating across the sky for 3 to 5 minutes and then disappearing and dimming out at a certain spot in the sky once they reached that certain spot! Normally where you would satellites flying by! Also several people reported on Facebook seeing the same thing here in Billings, Montana And over McCall, Idaho at the same time there are several pictures to prove these statements.

12/24/19 6:15 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 5-8 minutes

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Helena, MT

Full Report Text:

Black mass fell from atmosphere, black vertical stream followed. At around 720 am I was driving, and saw a black mass trajecting into the atmosphere. It was not a jet stream as the stream was vertical.

the object started higher in the atmosphere and the stream fanned out at the top, and as it fell closer to the ground from the atmosphere the stream grew smaller.

12/21/19 7:20 AM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Reed Point, MT

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Bright red flashing light hovering seen by a rancher and wife in SE Sweet grass county, MT My husband and I were coming home and saw a steady flashing red light that seemed to be moving extremely slow if at all above our ranch heading south. We stopped to put our field glasses on it but it disappeared quickly. Then out of nowhere it appeared again this time above our main courtyard of the ranch circling and blinking a very bright red flashing light.

Then it started to head due East. This time we both got out of the pickup to listening for any sort of noise but there was none. Then just like the first time we seen it, it disappeared.

12/17/19 9:00 PM

UFO Shape: flash

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Florence, MT

Full Report Text:

fast satellites in long line 8 Satellite type objects moving south east between the big dipper and North star. inline.all at same speed.

spaced evenly except the last as though 1 was missing. moving a little faster than a satellite.

12/06/19 6:50 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 3 minutes

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Victor, MT

Full Report Text:

Observed 33 lights travelling from NW to SE. The first 6 lights were in single file and evenly spaced, the 7th was shorter spaced, then 8-10 resumed the evenly spaced formation the 11 and 12 were abroad each other. Then 13-23 resumed even, but wider spacing, and 24-32 resumed original spacing follwed by 33 which was spaced wide again.

12/06/19 6:35 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 10-12 minutes

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Emigrant, MT

Full Report Text:

I saw a flaming dome What I Saw December 6, 2019, 1:15am Emigrant, Montana Just as I was getting a glass of water before bed, I glanced out my kitchen window and saw something completely baffling. I would not have called it a sighting because it was so startling. It was only after I related what I saw to my husband that I realized it was without doubt a UFO.

My husband was extremely tired that evening and had gone to bed before me. So when I saw the sight, I didn’t wake him (and I’m kicking myself for not doing that) because he was so tired. I saw up on a hill near the back of our home a flaming dome.

When I say flaming I mean this literally. It appeared to be burning. I could see the fires within it churning and burning.

It was vidid. It had an aura. Oddly the aura appeared to be something artificial because it did not appear ethereal.

It looked somehow like a designed aura. It was sort of like scallops with a black edge. But it was light.

I was dumbfounded. I had an preconceived idea of what UFOs look like. This fit nothing I’d ever heard of.

I decided to get a flashlight and go outside to see if lI could see it better. But it was early in the morning and we have wild animals out here and I decided it would not be wise to do this. By the time I got the flashlight and returned to the window, it had diminished.

I would say I was away maybe 6 minutes. Then as I stood and watched, the dome simply gradually diminished in brightness and somewhat rapidly vanished (as if disappearing into the hill). It just collapsed right before my eyes.

And it was just gone. When I told my husband about it the next morning, he said it was probably a UFO.

12/06/19 1:15 AM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 15 minutes

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Lewistown, MT

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Just before sunrise, my husband was routinely sitting in the hot tub and saw a stream of what appeared to be low-flying satellites. They were all appropriately spaced, flying at the same speed, in the same trajectory and made no sound. He was quite surprised as he is out there daily and had never seen this type of thing before.

He called me out to see it and we counted 30 of them before the sunlight impacted our ability to see them any longer.

12/05/19 6:50 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 15 minutes

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Eureka, MT

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50-70 flying objects in a trail heading in the same direction. Straglers continued to follow for the next hour.

11/28/19 6:30 AM

UFO Shape:

Lasted: 30 minutes

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Belgrade, MT

Full Report Text:

On the morning of Monday November 25th, 2019 My wife and I saw 40 lights appear from nowhere in the dark sky and travel in a northeastward direction. This sighting happened in the Gallatin Valley, east of Belgrade, Montana. On the early morning the 25th, of November, 2019.

my wife who is an early riser, was out on the porch smoking a cigarette. The sky was very clear and cold out about 25 degrees. She was looking the stars of the night.

When she observed a couple of lights moving across the sky in a spaced out pattern. There became more, which seemed to be popping out of the black space. She felt if she left to wake me up from sleep would be fruitless that they would be gone.

Well, they kept coming, and then awoke me from my sleep to see these lights. Well I did see the lights after about 12 of them had already moved on and they just kept coming out of dark space. Just fainter then some of the bright stars, but they kept coming out of the dark up rather high in the sky.

No blinking, but much like satellites, they moved off with no sound. A propeller plane was coming by now behind us low and I was hoping they somehow would see this two. This continued for maybe 15- 20 minutes and we counted 40 lights total moving in the same direction toward the Bridger Mtns.

and NE. Twice 2 of these lights popped out at the same time. The best description I can give is like that TV denture cleaning commercial where they pull a string of pearls out of a baked fruit pie, one after another in a very precised spaced out pattern.

But the lights appeared out of nothing in the black space. This is not the first time I have seen strange lights, in this area. Also camping in the Beartooth wilderness there are quite a few strange light movements going on.

11/25/19 5:15 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Evergreen, MT

Full Report Text:

Vibrant green light object hovered over my neighborhood. At first thought it was Christmas lights, evidently no one has them up for decor yet nor do they have such a green shade; saw it in the sky making weird motion. At one point it hovered over my house ( & looked like it was attached to my roof at a point) & disappeared after a few minutes of transitional movement of slow to vigorous flying actions.

11/14/19 10:30 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 15 Minutes

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Missoula, MT

Full Report Text:

Orb pulsating moving away Then moving West to East Stopping moving East to west Irving brightly then zipping away fast.

10/10/19 9:27 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Butte, MT

Full Report Text:

two extra star-like objects in the constellation Cassiopeia, blink out over half a minute As I climbed out of my (outside access) basement laundry room at about 8:40 pm I caught sight of the constellation Cassiopeia in the clear, dark NE sky. I was startled at the view; it looked as if there were two new stars inside that constellation. They were very much brighter than the other stars in Cassiopeia, bright white, and about equal brilliance and separated by no more than the space of my thumb at arms length.

They were motionless. As I watched, the easternmost one dimmed and “blinked-out” over an interval of 10 seconds. Then the other one did the same.

I went right to my computer to confirm the constellation and file this report. Dual Supernovae explosion in a distant galaxy? (What are the chances of that?) Or some craft “parked” in orbit going “inter-dimensional”? I am hoping someone else caught sight of this, and am curious where in the sky it appeared to them : it would give a clue about the objects’ altitudes.

10/01/19 8:42 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 1 minute

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Great Falls, MT

Full Report Text:

Shooting star that slows down to an almost complete stop, continues to zig and zag across the night sky from north to south. Goose Bumps - My dogs got me up to let them out about 12:50 am on 10/1/2019. I remember it vividly because the temp was about 20°F when I went outside in my gym shorts and t-shirt and instantly felt the cold on my bare feet.

One dog started barking at something, so that is why I went outside was to get her to quit barking and not wake the neighbors. I’m waiting there for her at the edge of the deck (freezing my rear-end off) and I start viewing the sky to the west when all of the sudden I see a shooting star moving from north to south. Way cool…but then all of the sudden, it slows down then it darts off to the southwest and then again to the southeast and then again to the south in a zig-zag motion taking up about 2/3rds of the sky (estimated 1,000 miles in 15 seconds or less, that’s ~240,000 mph).

At that time, I’m not sure if the goose bumps on my arms and legs were being caused by whatever I just saw or the cold. This was no droid or anything I’d e! ver seen in my life prior. Like I said, it initially had the effect and brightness of a shooting star but was able to slow down then speed up and slow down as it zigged and zagged across the night sky.

10/01/19 1:00 AM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: 15 seconds

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Cooke City, MT

Full Report Text:

Dark and low flying object near Cooke City caught on photo taken whilst travelling to Yellow Stone on HW 212. On the 25.09.

2019 at 14:30 My Wife and I were driving from Coke City/MT towards Yellow Stone on High Way 212. As the road was long and straight, I asked my Wife to take a photo of the long straight road ahead. On the Sunday 10.

11.2019, around 15:00 c.e.

t. we were processing our photos to decide which ones to include in our holiday album, which we noticed a dark object in one of the photos. When compared with the second photo of the same view and taken only a few seconds after, the flying object had vanished.

The object seen was dark, long in shape, but had an aerodynamic shape overall. The flying object is seen above a mountain ridge, which is covered in some pine trees but there also bare rock. The road is straight with Pine trees on each side.

There is a pick up ahead of our vehicle, which travels a short distance between the time the first and second photo was taken. The flying object is definitely not a conventional aircraft(Helicopter or plane). Is not a smudge or dirt on the car windscreen.

09/25/19 2:30 PM

UFO Shape: cigar

Lasted: 15 seconds

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Red Lodge, MT

Full Report Text:

Extremely bright multicolored orb larger than a star appeared to be suspended in the sky at about 30,000 feet. To the south of Red Lodge, toward Cody, Wyoming, a bright multi-colored light (or lights) was stationary in the sky with no sound. It was much brighter than the stars.

I have seen meteors before, this didn't move at all.

09/25/19 5:30 AM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: 10 minutes

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Superior, MT

Full Report Text:

Bright long lasting flash. Moved quickly and disappeared After hiking at the Montana/Idaho border, my wife and I were sitting watching the stars when one of the stars became super bright like a long flash from a camera it lasted for about 20 seconds, it then moved at a high rate of speed then disappeared. I do know it was not a plane.

Not sure what it was.

09/14/19 8:30 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 20 seconds

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Florence, MT

Full Report Text:

We were watching for the ISS to the west and noticed a very bright light blink on then off and this happened 3 time with 30 seconds.

08/28/19 5:20 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 30 seconds

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Seeley Lake, MT

Full Report Text:

More wierd lights in the sky. Very bright white light flash. No flash for 10 or 15 seconds, then flash but after 4 or 5 flashes, it does not appear to be flying in a straight line more like left right down.

then nothing. Very weird. This was not an airplane flying in a straight line.

The flashes were VERY white and bright.

08/23/19 10:10 PM

UFO Shape: flash

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Montana UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Light 22 reported sightings 36.07% of all reports
Other 7 reported sightings 11.48% of all reports
Circle 6 reported sightings 9.84% of all reports
Oval 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
Flash 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
Unknown 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports
Triangle 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports
Cigar 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports
Disk 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports
Sphere 1 reported sightings 1.64% of all reports
Formation 1 reported sightings 1.64% of all reports
Rectangle 1 reported sightings 1.64% of all reports
Cone 1 reported sightings 1.64% of all reports
Diamond 1 reported sightings 1.64% of all reports

Montana UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
July 13 reported sightings 21.31% of all reports
December 9 reported sightings 14.75% of all reports
June 8 reported sightings 13.11% of all reports
August 6 reported sightings 9.84% of all reports
January 6 reported sightings 9.84% of all reports
March 5 reported sightings 8.20% of all reports
September 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
November 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
April 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
October 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
February 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports

Montana UFO Sightings From 2019 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
Tuesday 14 reported sightings 22.95% of all reports
Thursday 11 reported sightings 18.03% of all reports
Saturday 10 reported sightings 16.39% of all reports
Friday 9 reported sightings 14.75% of all reports
Monday 6 reported sightings 9.84% of all reports
Sunday 6 reported sightings 9.84% of all reports
Wednesday 5 reported sightings 8.20% of all reports

Montana UFO Sightings From 2019 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
12/06/19 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
07/20/19 3 reported sightings 4.92% of all reports
07/23/19 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports
06/17/19 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports
04/06/19 2 reported sightings 3.28% of all reports

Montana UFO Sightings From 2019 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
Night 20:00 - 23:59 18 reported sightings 29.51% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 14 reported sightings 22.95% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 12 reported sightings 19.67% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 7 reported sightings 11.48% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 6 reported sightings 9.84% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 4 reported sightings 6.56% of all reports

All Montana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Montana, in 2019

City Number of Reports View Reports
Helena 9 UFO Reports Helena UFO Sightings in 2019
Billings 5 UFO Reports Billings UFO Sightings in 2019
Great Falls 4 UFO Reports Great Falls UFO Sightings in 2019
Hamilton 4 UFO Reports Hamilton UFO Sightings in 2019
Bozeman 3 UFO Reports Bozeman UFO Sightings in 2019
Kalispell 3 UFO Reports Kalispell UFO Sightings in 2019
Florence 2 UFO Reports Florence UFO Sightings in 2019
Belgrade 2 UFO Reports Belgrade UFO Sightings in 2019
Missoula 2 UFO Reports Missoula UFO Sightings in 2019
East Helena 2 UFO Reports East Helena UFO Sightings in 2019
Victor 2 UFO Reports Victor UFO Sightings in 2019
Stevensville 2 UFO Reports Stevensville UFO Sightings in 2019
Deer Lodge 1 UFO Reports Deer Lodge UFO Sightings in 2019
Floweree 1 UFO Reports Floweree UFO Sightings in 2019
Crow Agency 1 UFO Reports Crow Agency UFO Sightings in 2019
Miles City 1 UFO Reports Miles City UFO Sightings in 2019
Lewistown 1 UFO Reports Lewistown UFO Sightings in 2019
Essex 1 UFO Reports Essex UFO Sightings in 2019
Fairview 1 UFO Reports Fairview UFO Sightings in 2019
Huson 1 UFO Reports Huson UFO Sightings in 2019
Seeley Lake 1 UFO Reports Seeley Lake UFO Sightings in 2019
Emigrant 1 UFO Reports Emigrant UFO Sightings in 2019
Whitefish 1 UFO Reports Whitefish UFO Sightings in 2019
Cooke City 1 UFO Reports Cooke City UFO Sightings in 2019
Red Lodge 1 UFO Reports Red Lodge UFO Sightings in 2019
Eureka 1 UFO Reports Eureka UFO Sightings in 2019
Reed Point 1 UFO Reports Reed Point UFO Sightings in 2019
Butte 1 UFO Reports Butte UFO Sightings in 2019
Arlee 1 UFO Reports Arlee UFO Sightings in 2019
Lodge Grass 1 UFO Reports Lodge Grass UFO Sightings in 2019
Superior 1 UFO Reports Superior UFO Sightings in 2019
Evergreen 1 UFO Reports Evergreen UFO Sightings in 2019
Laurel 1 UFO Reports Laurel UFO Sightings in 2019

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Montana

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Montana.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 2 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 17 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 30 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 7 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 56 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 61 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 33 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 50 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 49 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 60 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 56 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 52 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 74 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 49 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 32 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 32 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 20 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 20 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 21 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 29 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 27 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 20 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 20 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 17 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 15 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 22 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 20 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 13 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 5 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 17 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 3 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 5 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 3 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 2 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 4 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 1 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1989
1987 3 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 4 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1986
1984 3 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 1 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 4 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1982
1979 1 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 2 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 2 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 2 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 3 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 1 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 1 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 4 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1972
1970 2 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 4 UFO Reports Montana UFO Sightings in 1969