Cigar over Cooke City, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On the 25.09.2019 at 14:30 My Wife and I were driving from Coke City/MT towards Yellow Stone on High Way 212. As the road was long and straight, I asked my Wife to take a photo of the long straight road ahead. On the Sunday 10.11.2019, around 15:00 c.e.t. we were processing our photos to decide which ones to include in our holiday album, which we noticed a dark object in one of the photos. When compared with the second photo of the same view and taken only a few seconds after, the flying object had vanished. The object seen was dark, long in shape, but had an aerodynamic shape overall. The flying object is seen above a mountain ridge, which is covered in some pine trees but there also bare rock. The road is straight with Pine trees on each side. There is a pick up ahead of our vehicle, which travels a short distance between the time the first and second photo was taken. The flying object is definitely not a conventional aircraft(Helicopter or plane). Is not a smudge or dirt on the car windscreen.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150606). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-09-22 → 2019-10-09