Fireball over Wilsall, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I observed three egg-shaped lights in a tight cluster, but not touching. One of the lights turned to the east and hovered over the Crazy Mountains. I woke my husband, and we observed the huge white light in the sky. We went outside and it triggered our exterior motion lights. The object receded quickly, until it looked like a small star but within less than a minute, it came forward, and again hovered over the mountains. We observed this for 30 minutes. We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135171). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-07-12 → 2017-07-29