Circle over Townsend, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Would not pick up on my IPhone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137653). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-06 → 2017-12-23
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August 19, 2022 · 9:16 PM · RECTANGLE
Townsend, MT
The sky was getting dark with stars just beginning to be visible. We could still see the neighbors house and apple tree clearly. There was a light layer of thin cloud. We were seated & a long rectangular bright light suddenly appeared roughly the height of the power lines above the house roof, traveling downwards in a southerly direction. It was bright and looked like a fluorescent light tube. I ran into the house to get my camera but when I came into the garden the object was disappearing as it moved southwards.
April 16, 2013 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Townsend, MT
The first strange thing I noticed was three bright white lights in a row above our Elk Horn Mountains. I looked around the sky and I no