Unknown over Missoula, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
5 or 6 orange lights, no noise, disbursed and went in different directions. lasted approx 40 seconds
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2011-11-23 → 2011-12-10
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July 30, 2023 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
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I was outside on my back deck when I looked up and saw a bright light moving extremely fast for an air craft, it was so bright I had to close my eyes and open them to see to light changing colors from red and white to blue and white, it was a beautiful color mix that almost looked like a military grade flare but without the fire and made no sound! , I went to bed last night thinking about what I saw and I knew I had to say something because I know for a fact that it wasn’t a satellite or a plane, if you saw this on the 30th of July 2023 we may have seen the same unidentified flying object
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Missoula, MT
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Missoula, MT
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Missoula, MT
One star trailed to the right and disappeared into light congestion. Then in the middle of the last song three stars go racing at the speed of light to the left one chasing two, when they all got to above the mountain I saw one crash into another and both hit the last one and disappeared over the mountain into light congestion, silent no noise - the distance of stars I was DD for my father at this concert and may have caught one on footage They may have been disturbed by the concert, definitely not related, there was a jet following shortly before and after which promoted me to look up. It was night and you could see other stars, but the light pollution made it difficult to capture- if it was pitch black you could have seen the impossible speed these stars were going at. It literally looked like a star battle in the sky. A vehicle stopped on the freeway for a lengthy period of time shortly after the “possible crash” could have happened
February 5, 2022 · 7:14 PM · CIGAR
Missoula, MT
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January 2, 2022 · 10:28 PM · SPHERE
Missoula, MT
My fiancé and I stepped outside our business for a cigarette. We run an exotic animal rescue and actually live in the back, there is an apartment. We were talking and I was looking at the sky, the next I thing I see is 5 grey, metallic looking spheres flying very low above our business and off into the distance disappearing. When the spheres first appeared they where in an uneven triangle formation then all switched positions, some overlapping others( looked higher up in the sky). The whole event only look seconds and my fiancé saw a large flash in the sky afterward. I’ve gone through a few options of what they could such as drones or helicopter, they made absolutely no noise and it was extra quiet when they went by. They didn’t have any lights, and I got a clear shot from how low some dropped to when they split from the triangle formation. Some of our animals have been acting spooked, or even just on edge since the incident occurred. Which is odd because we have no windows in our unit, so they wouldn’t be able to see anything anyways. Sometimes you can tell if it’s man made, or even the government…this time I have no idea what I even saw, hence my reason for this report.