As reported

Light over Bigfork, MT

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The report, as filed

3 different colored objects moving down towards me.

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September 15, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL

Bigfork, MT

September 16, 2016. I am an artist living in Bigfork, Montana. At approximately 9:45 p.m. on the evening of September 15, 2016, I was out with my dog walking across my parking lot to go into my home. I happened to look up to admire the night sky and see if the moon was on the rise. When I did this, there was what I thought to be a firework going straight up into the sky from the Flathead Lake. It was a large yellow ball with a tail which appeared to be at least 6 times the diameter in length of the object. Since my dog is afraid of the firework noise, I stood waiting for it to explode when it appeared to stop in midair and began to travel at a consistent speed horizontally on a north east route. There was absolutely no sound. I kept walking along the road to make sure to watch it without tree line interference. It appeared to be headed in the direction of Glacier Park. I watched until it disappeared from my sight. With the consistent but slow speed, I calculated I was watching it for approximately 23 seconds. At no time did the shape or tail change in appearance. When it didn’t explode, I thought it was a comet, but the tail never changed length/shape and the glow remained consistent. There was absolutely no sound. By 11:00 p.m., I researched several local news channels in the hopes of finding a newscast about a comet passing over the State of Montana. I have searched for several more hours throughout the day today trying to see if there were any reports of comet – meteor sightings and have not discovered any reports. Initially I felt initially that is was not a meteor but a comet due the consistent color and tail. I shared this event with several people I know and one individual recommended that I report it to this organization since now I am convinced it was some sort of UFO due to the behavior and flight. I have witnessed UFO sightings a couple of times in my life in other states and always have seen objects that are traveling at high rates of speed which I believe were not aircraft. Before becoming an artist 17 years ago, I worked in the aviation field and am familiar with various aircraft noise and behavior. In summary, I am submitting this as possibly I may not be the only individual who witnessed this event. As an aside, this is the second event that I have witnessed around the Flathead Lake since moving here 10 years ago. Thank you.

August 30, 2014 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE

Bigfork, MT

So, about 2 weeks ago, my husband and I went outside to let our dogs out. It was probably 11:30pm. We noticed these weird balls of light in the sky. There was a light cloud cover and you could tell they were above the clouds. At first, not knowing what we were seeing we thought maybe it was northern lights, but we were seeing weird balls of light zooming around because of the clouds?? So we got in our car and decided to drive down to a clearing, because we live in the woods, and see if we could see it better. So we drove about 2 miles down the road and parked at the clearing. The lights were gone, and it was dead silent. All of the sudden the lights appeared in front of our eyes and started moving around. Sometimes they would blink, and sometimes seemed to move in a pattern together. We thought someone was messing with us. We could not believe what we were seeing! Then all of the sudden.. one by one.. the balls formed into one big ball!. It sort of pulsed and just sat there in the sky for about 20 seconds. Then one by one the balls came out of the clouds and went down into the woods! NO JOKE!!! You could see a light beam coming down with each one of them, until they all went down into the woods, probably a quarter mile from our car. I jumped in my car because I was terrified! And sat there for a few seconds, then jumped back out and stood there and stared. The whole time you couldn’t hear anything. Then one by one the balls shot out of the woods back into the sky and sort of disa! ppeared. I was so scared, and my husband was also, that we got in our car and started speeding home. We couldn’t believe what we saw. On the way home they reappeared and almost followed us. We got home, couldn’t see them, again everything was so still outside. We went in, confused, and let the dogs back out. They appeared again almost above our house. These lights, 5 of them, shooting around in the sky. We took the dogs back in and went back out and just watched them. They moved fast, sometimes together in weird ways, and blinked at times. Finally I went in and came back out and they were gone. I have done tons of research and I see no natural ocurance that could explain this. There wasn’t any lightning that night. What was weird also is that all the dogs out here in the woods were barking. You would hear them way off in the distance. It was all just strange and mind boggling. I did believe in UFO’s before this happened, but never in a million years did I expect to see something so strange. Well, I told the story to a few people, and then today, one of my friends I told messaged me and said there was a guy in the Kalispell, MT, yard sale, saying he had also saw something strange and was wondering if anyone else had seen anything weird in the sky. I’m tying to contact the guy now. I know what I saw sounds completely unbelievable. I don’t expect anyone to believe me! I’d be willing to take a lie detector test on this! It was no joke and my husband and I are still confused and have no explanation. We tried to take video and pictures but couldn't capture what we were seeing.

April 3, 2001 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT