Light over Butte, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
White/organge lights moving in night sky
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 2014-02-10 → 2014-02-27
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September 28, 2023 · 12:15 PM · CUBE
Butte, MT
I am going to keep this brief because I can’t believe I am reporting it. I saw a cube shaped flying item, it appeared to have louvers, too high for a drone and too low for a helicopter. No means of propulsion: no heat trails, no propeller, no noise. It was steel and white. I only saw one angle. I went right tf back inside. Less than 30 min thereafter three jets flew low overhead.
December 17, 2021 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Butte, MT
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.
October 1, 2019 · 8:42 PM · OTHER
Butte, MT
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.
April 24, 2018 · 9:20 PM · CHANGING
Butte, MT
A large bright light hovered above Timber Butte to the southwest. It changed shape like a jellyfish to triangle with red lights around it and gyrated like a snake when looking at it through binoculars. 4 of us also saw a smaller object but larger than the stars to the left and higher that blinked red, green, blue white and also appeared like a dancing snake. Between these were 3 smaller lights in a row that hovered, then later disappeared. Several other lights were high in the sky with colored lights. They were larger than the Big Dipper that we could see above us. After an hour the large light moved to the northwest and hovered for a few minutes before disappearing. Then 2 red blinking lights appeared in the western sky and moved slowly south one behind the other until they went behind the hill. No planes or helicopters flying at the time. 5 witnesses total to this event. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and found her to be sincere about her sighting. We encouraged her to observe the night sky, on the next clear night, to see whether she might see something similar to what she had seen on the first night. PD
April 7, 2018 · 8:00 AM · SPHERE
Butte, MT
One stayed stationary for three hours, the one next to it was moving up and down and made a sharp right then shot faster than anything I have ever seen East and right now 4/7/18 10:25 pm there is one with bright red and blue light not moving. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:35 PM · OTHER
Butte, MT
On July 4, 2017, at approximately 22:15 p.m (MDT) to the south in Butte Montana at about 3000 feet elevation I saw what I thought could be a flying object with lantern or incendiary device pulsating with orange flames. I watched it for a while as it hovered and then it disappeared or went behind the haze or thin clouds. My only thought was someone could start a forest fire on the East Ridge. I went indoors and returned to the outside a few minutes later and saw a different type of object (see other report) in about the same location at a slightly lower elevation. Around 22:35 p.m. I went to the front of my house and two square dim orange irregularly pulsating objects with a jagged or blurred top edge were moving slowly towards me (west to east) at a low altitude, I estimate at 100 feet. I had never seen or heard of anything like this before. They moved slowly and the first one suddenly disappeared but, before it disappeared, I started to take a video using my iPad. After a few seconds, my iPad quit working. The second object continued slowly in a slightly northeasterly direction until it was to my north and opposite where I was standing. It then made a slow 180 degree turn and disappeared. I could hear a low whooshing sound from the second one. When I tried to take a photo or video of the second object, my iPad camera didn’t function at all. In the short less than 5 second video of the first object, it appears as a hazy orange blob. With the naked eye it appeared clear, square shaped, and even on all but the top edge.