Light over Hamilton, MT
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The report, as filed
Was walking my dog and looked straight up in the sky at a bright star, directly overhead, which seemed strange because there is no bright star/planet in that spot. As I was thinking this, the light started to slowly move NE while the light slowly dimmed out without a sound. For some reason, witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #126892). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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August 18, 2019 · 10:55 PM · RECTANGLE
Hamilton, MT
I observed 4 rectangular red moving objects traveling at different speeds. Slowly the moving objects faded in the sky.
August 18, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Hamilton, MT
Went out to turn off my sprinkler and noticed a bright orange light coming from the NW and traveling slowly towards the SE. The sky was already dark with no cloud cover and stars were out. National weather service out of Missoula reported winds aloft at 60mph out of the NW over Hamilton, MT at 10:00pm mountain time. Once I noticed the first light, I could see another traveling along a similar path as if one was following the other. They were both equally bright and where much bigger than any object such as Jupiter or other planets or stars. They were easily10x bigger than the biggest planet or star. They were circular in shape, possibly slightly elongated when at their brightest. The first one slowed and stopped directly overhead making no sound at all. While the first one remained stationary and the second one continued towards the first, the first one dimmed and became smaller to about the size of the stars out at the time. Then the first one vanished compl! etely. Meanwhile, the second one while still moving also dimmed down to a smal star sized object and completely vanished as well. While all that was going on further in the distance a third object following along the same path caught my attention as well. The third object was orange as well but different than the other in that it appeared to have an orange energy field surrounding it making it much brighter. The main part being what seemed about the same bright orange as the first two objects, and the surrounding orb surrounding it a much lighter shade of orange. This energy field that I call it made the third object 4-5x bigger than the main center object that it was surrounding. The third object never came as far south as the other two so my view of it was not as close. It may have been as far away as five miles to the NW when it reversed its direction and started traveling back in the direction from where it had come from. Then it too faded down to a tiny orange object, like the others and vanished as well. Hamilton is in a valley that sits at an elevation of around 3,500ft with surrounding mountains between 8,000-10,000ft. I would guess that these objects had to be over 10,000ft in elevation or higher. None of them made any sound that I could hear and it is very quiet here on a Sunday night with almost zero wind at the time.
March 7, 2019 · 9:44 PM · TRIANGLE
Hamilton, MT
There was 3 red lights blinking from the corners of the triangular craft. It came down towards the ground till it was about 75-100 feet off the ground and then moved northeast over the neighbors field, our field and another neighbor's house. I lost sight of it after it passed over the neighbors home. But I did get video of it.
January 1, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Hamilton, MT
Within a few minutes after the New Year (2019) we were on our porch watching fireworks, when we spotted a strange red light moving slowly between us and the mountains, which is only a few miles away. We ran to the other end of the porch and saw it still drifting across the field and move on down the valley. We then moved to the back deck to see if we could see it further away, when suddenly two more objects (lights) looking exactly like the first light, came into view. They just drifted on down the valley following the first light and then winked out. Then three more red lights, looking like the other three, seemed to swoop into view and drifted across toward the field. One just kept going and winked out, but the fifth one seemed to turn and get brighter and then winked out. The last light never made it as far as the others and got dimmer and dimmer and went out. The lights were not blinking or making any sound, so we knew they weren't airplanes or he! licopters. They all followed the same flight path and the same altitude. The shape of the lights was unusual. They were slightly elongated vertically. There seemed to be something in front of the lights, but it was not discernible. We tried to be objective and wondered if we were seeing those flying light lanterns or some kind of new fireworks. They were certainly strange and we had no idea what they were. A few nights later, we were listening to Coast to Coast and heard Peter Davenport's report and one of them sounded similar to ours coming from Boise, ID. on the same night. The report was of 6 red lights. Our mountain range borders Idaho, and as the crow flies, we're in line from Boise. Hmmm Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2018 · 6:44 PM · CIGAR
Hamilton, MT
I was about 19 or 20 when this happened so it was about five years ago, so around 2018. Me and two of my friends were hiking up softrock in Hamilton MT and we looked up and noticed a cigar (long oval) shaped craft with an shiny reflective chrome like exterior. I and I'm assuming my friends immediately got an interview overwhelming sense of anxiety and dread I shook it off and immediately began trying to wave it down my friend at the time said my name and motioned me to stop I disregarded him and continued trying to signal it. I started trying to talk to it by projecting my thoughts projecting images and asking it to take me off of this rock. It started zipping around the sky about halfway through me attempting this leaving behind trails of bright redish orange and yellow we stayed there and watched it for about an hour before we decided to leave. My friends dropped me off at my house Wich at the time was in the middle of town(south 8th st Hamilton MT) I moseyed around the house for probably 30 minutes before I let my dog out and looked up and there it was dancing around in the sky I waved again and it changed it's pattern seemingly acknowledging my wave. I gave it a bow and went back inside and was immediately overwhelmed by that familiar sense of anxiety of the unknown I attempted to calm myself eventually hyping myself up by saying this is what I asked for. I took a deep breath and stepped back outside to see if it finally left. It did not. I stepped back inside again and came to the understandable conclusion that tonight is going to be an all nighter... As soon as the thought crossed my mind I started feeling sick (like when you stand in front of a microwave for too long)but the fear was gone almost like they switched off my emotions. I lied down on my living room couch. As soon as I relaxed I was hit by a golden beam that covered myself the sofa and most of the surrounding floor and I felt a presence appear on either side of me, the fear returned and I tried a left hook on the being on that side of my person. As soon as I balled my fist and started swinging the beam intensified forcing my arms and legs into a fetal position then a second beam smaller beam struck my head I immediately started seeing red symbols on a black background, the symbols changed slowly at first picking up speed the more I tried to focus the more it hurt seemingly gaining momentum until finally it felt like they were trying to shove a text book into my skull. I've tried to write it off as a dream but I cannot because I it wasn't a dream and I'll never be able to forget that pain I felt it was almost non physical.. my apologies for the book I've written here but I needed to share it, I was scared to tell anyone about this mostly because it sounds crazy and fear of men in suits coming to get me but at this point my fear of never knowing what they have shown me far outweighs the fear of the government.
June 4, 2017 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Hamilton, MT
ON 6/4/2017, AT APPROXIMATELY 0250 HOURS, I HAD PARKED TO GET OUT AND STRETCH. I OBSERVED TWO VERY BRIGHT LIGHTS IN THE SOUTH SKY, AT APPROXIMATELY A 45 DEGREE ANGLE TO ME. I LOOKED AT THEM AND WONDERED WHAT STARS THEY WERE. AS I KEPT LOOKING AT THEM, I REALIZED THE OBJECTS WERE MOVING SOUTH VERY SLOWLY. I BELIEVE THE OBJECTS WERE VERY FAR AWAY AND SEPARATE, AS THEY APPEARED AS STARS. I NOTICED, AS THE OBJECTS CONTINUED SOUTH, THAT THEY WERE MOVING IN PERFECT UNISON. THE OBJECTS THEN BEGAN TO SERPENTINE LEFT AN RIGHT IN UNISON AND BEGAN TO SPEED UP. THE LIGHT THE OBJECTS WERE PUTTING OUT THEN BEGAN TO DIM. THE OBJECTS THEN SEPARTED AND ONE WENT UPWARDS AND SOUTHEAST, AND THE OTHER UPWARDS AND SOUTHWEST. BOTH OBJECTS THEN WERE OUT OF VIEW.