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Montana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 7 UFO sighting reports in Montana from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "rectangle" (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- 05/15/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 71.43% of total).
Montana UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Montana UFO reports from 2021, 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).
Full Report Text:
Saw orb that moved around the moon and got pictures I took my puppy out to go potty and decided I would take a picture of the full moon, there was a green orb in my camera but could not see it with the naked eye. I took 2 pictures came in and showed my uncle cleaned my lense and he went out and took pictures himself and ended up with 3 pictures with orbs in it. I went back out to take another and the orb moved rapidly downwards which I caught a picture but freaked out and ran in the house.
Full Report Text:
Rectangle Hovering Craft Over Lincoln, MT Lincoln, MT JULY 4th, 2021. I observed a rectangle shaped formation of red flashing lights, believed to be a single craft streak across the night sky approx. 15000 above the town of Lincoln Montana.
The craft quickly moved across the sky and then slowed and hovered for 5 minutes, quickly moved forward and back and hovered again. This took place as the nightly fireworks show took place. The observation took place between 10 and 11 pm.
Full Report Text:
String of Attached Lights with No Sound Moving Towards Us On May 15, 2021 at approximately 11:30 PM, my partner and I were sitting on a rooftop looking at the stars at a home outside Emigrant, Montana. There were no clouds and we could see the stars. At approximately 11:37 PM, we noticed an object coming across the sky from the southwestern sky (near Yellowstone National Park).
The object was a straight line of attached lights and it was moving in our direction. The flying object looked to be made up of over 40 white lights and appeared to be about a mile long. As it came towards our direction, I took a photograph on my Iphone.
The object appeared to stall as it moved closer and the lights could not be seen as well. It appeared to remain in this location, about 10-15 miles away from where we sat, for approximately 1-2 minutes. At this point, I called a family member because I was scared and then the object started to move again towards the northwestern portion of the sky.
As the flying object started moving toward! s the northeastern sky, the lights were still visible at the bottom, but there also was a shadow that was not lit up that was visible. It appeared as if the object had multiple sides and not just the bottom lights. The object made no sound and there was no sound of nightlife at that moment.
(There was an owl hooting before the object appeared and stopped during the event.) Prior to this event, my dog did not want to go outside to use the restroom and was anxious when we went out on the roof to look at the stars, which was not normal behavior for my dog.
Full Report Text:
Three individuals witnessed a brightly lit but silent very large object for 5 minutes at 10:30pm on 5/15/2021 west of Glasgow, MT. Object was rectangular in shape approximately 2 city blocks long by 2-3 stories high and emitting a bright white light from within from one end to the other. I estimate it was 1/2 mile from me at an altitude of approximately 1500 feet, flying a set trajectory from west to east down the middle of Fort Peck Lake at Fourchette Bay, speed approximately 100-150 mph.
It made no sound on a particularly quiet night. I am in possession of a picture of this object.
Full Report Text:
Large bright Disk I was on a fishing trip and camped at Fourchette Bay on Fort Peck Reservoir when I went to bed early and got up sometime in the middle of the night between 10:00 pm and 4:00 am to relieve myself. My camera and my cell phone were in the boat so I didn’t know what exact time it was. The coyotes were howling and the thousands of stars were big and bright as I have ever seen them.
There is no light pollution in the middle of the prairie land. I walked around my truck to relieve myself when I glanced up at the sky and saw a flash of bright light that looked like a comet, a way bigger flash than a shooting star. I said to myself, “cool, a comet,” but I was more interested in receiving my full bladder.
When I finished relieving myself, I again glanced up to see the “comet” only to see that it had turned into a very large, disc-like shape. It resembled the horizontal shape of a frisbee. Since I didn’t have a photo, I drew what I saw over photos I had taken of the skyline the night before this happened: Comet looking flash of light:  Turned into this shape:  I was in awe and I think my jaw had dropped to the ground.
The coyotes had stopped howling and there was absolutely no sound from this craft that was hovering just above the skyline. It started slowly to move east and simultaneously lengthen its shape. It moved alongside the reservoir toward Glasgow Montana and Fort Peck Dam.
Fourchette Bay is at least 366 miles from Glasgow according to google. When I saw the disc a quarter of a mile atop the hill from our campsite, I’m guessing the spacecraft was at least the length of a football field. The middle of it was filled with a completely bright, white light—as bright as the brightest LED light there is and it had a luminous blue hue surrounding it.
I thought about getting my camera out of the boat but I got scared thinking this thing may see me and snatch me up. I became nervous but not terrified and decided to hide myself behind my truck. As I watched this thing move laterally and slowly eastward, it lengthen as it moved.
Aft! er it moved further away, and I couldn’t tell if it was a mile long, 5 miles long, or a 100 miles long, or how fast it was really going. I was so in awe I didn’t even think to wake any of my friends. When I told them the next morning of what I had witnessed, they were silent and probably thinking I was nuts! I really don’t care if anyone believes me.
It has taken me 3 months to digest this experience. I finally found your website and looked at the reports and this report may be the same craft witnessed by 3 more people:  I would like to communicate with them and see their photo, so if there is a way to talk with them it would be through you folks. I know myself well enough to know I don’t have the imagination to make this experience up.
My perspective about the reality of our world has changed. I can no longer look at the sky as I once did. I now am open more than ever to all possibilities of this reality being more than what our senses tell us….
This was an experience that haunts me everyday and now I want to know more.
Full Report Text:
Myself, My mom an my son was all down at Pony Hill Cemetery afternoon after 7:00pm. Got down little after 7:23 when i happened to be looking up East Towards Malta, Montana. I see this white bright cigar shape craft moving at a little bit of a slow pace, So I took a video an pictures because I also noticed there was no sound coming from the sky like you would hear with a modern aircraft.
It lasted about 10 minutes it was moving north towards Canada. Once it went into a small form of clouds we was waiting to see it again but it never came out of the other direction of the clouds. After that we packed up our cleaning gear an headed home.
Full Report Text:
A tightly grouped string of lights being pulled by a single light that was in front of the others.
Montana UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings From 2021 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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05/15/21 | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
07/04/21 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
03/04/21 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
12/17/21 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
04/07/21 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Montana UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 5 reported sightings | 71.43% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
All Montana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Montana, in 2021
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Lincoln | 1 UFO Reports | Lincoln UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Fourchette Bay | 1 UFO Reports | Fourchette Bay UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Belgrade | 1 UFO Reports | Belgrade UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Glasgow | 1 UFO Reports | Glasgow UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Emigrant | 1 UFO Reports | Emigrant UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Butte | 1 UFO Reports | Butte UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation | 1 UFO Reports | Fort Belknap Indian Reservation UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Montana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Montana.