Unexplained

Unspecified over Dillon, MT

Investigated by a competent body and left unresolved. The rarest grade, and never awarded by us — only recorded.

The report, as filed

Dillon, Montana. 11:55 a.m. Witnesses: construction company owner Gosta Miller and three other unnamed persons. One object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face; matte bottom, bright aluminum top; 20' diameter, 4-5' thickness. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, rocked; all this was very fast.

Held as-reported from Project Blue Book, United States Air Force. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1949-03-31 → 1949-04-17

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June 29, 2018 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE

Dillon, MT

In the evening, my family and I sat down on our deck for dinner. My oldest daughter noticed something floating overhead and said, “wow, look at that”. My other daughter, wife and I all looked up and noticed what looked like a clear, translucent balloon like object floating in the sky. I thought it may be a plastic bag, or something similar, but I continued to watch it. It appeared to be rising very slowly. I noticed it went just behind a cloud, and was much larger than I first imagined. Not sure how large, but the lower clouds were probably at roughly 8,000 to 9,000 feet, we are at about 5,000 feet. The clouds were drifting fairly fast from west to east, but the wind did not affect the floating object at all. In fact, it was drifting from east to west and still rising slowly. I went into my house and grabbed a pair of binoculars to observe the object closer. When viewed through binoculars, it still seemed to be a translucent object with two possibly rigid rings. The rings sort of reflected the sunlight sort of rainbow like. I observed that is was just above the low clouds now as they drifted by from west to east (our typical wind direction). So my initial thought of it being some sort of weather balloon was mystified by the fact it was still rising in a westerly direction, into the wind. The clouds above it were also drifted from west to east, so the wind from that day was typical for our area, out of the west. This is why I decided to send in this report, if it had risen and drifted the same direction as the clouds then I would have been sure of it being a balloon. We went back into the house, did some dishes and came back out a bit later, maybe and hour and a half, and the object remained. It was a bit higher, but still traveling very slowly westward, while all clouds were traveling from west to east. We looked again after dark, but did not see the object then. I looked it up online to see if anyone had seen anything like it. I did see something that looked exactly like it in a youtube video shot over Brazil in 2017. That video is at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yXoES7Dlp0 . That video shows the object above clouds drifting in the opposite direction.

December 9, 2017 · 8:00 PM · DISK

Dillon, MT

On Dec 9, 2017, around 8pm, I was driving home, going north, when I saw blinking red lights thru the trees. As I came around the bend in the road, I saw lots of blinking red lights at eye level straight in front of me over the road about ½ mile away. I told my boyfriend to look at that! I drove to the head of our lane about ½ the distance to the object and stopped to watch it about 5 minutes. I watched it go into our field and move down towards the house. When it was getting close to the house I raced down the lane (about ¼ mile) to the house and yelled at my mom to come out. We watched it together until it went out of sight. My boyfriend and I saw the same thing my mother saw described below. On Dec 9, 2017, at 8:05pm MST my daughter came running into the house yelling at me to come outside. When I came out she told me to look up into the northern sky. I looked up but didn’t see anything until I lowered my eyes looking at eye level and there it was in our field by our house. It looked to be about in the middle of our field 800 ft away from us. I saw a lot (didn’t count) of dim, rectangular, flashing red lights with an occasional white flash going around the middle of what appeared to be a very large object moving very slowly across our field. It was moving from west to east (left to right) at an angle to the ground with the front lower than the back. It was very close to the ground and there was no sound. We tried to take a picture with a cell phone but you couldn’t see it. We watched it move across our field and go over the trees into our neighbor’s field. We watched the blinking lights until they went out of sight behind the trees. It took about 5 minutes for it to go out of sight about ¼ mile. There is a picture at www.bigskywords.com/montana-blog/a-history-of-ufos-in-montana that looks close to what we saw minus the light going down to the ground and the light on top. The lights going around were dim red with a few flashes of white not as pictured there. This was witnessed by myself (pharmacist), my daughter and her boyfriend (professional chef) We spoke via telephone with this witness, and she seemed to us to be exceptionally eloquent, and objective, in her description of the event. We suspect that she is a skilled, and highly reliable, witness. PD

January 18, 2010 · 7:03 PM · OVAL