Oval over Montrose, SD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We took a drive on back roads this evening. Got back to the campground. about 9. There was a girls baseball game in a nearby field.Got out of the Jeep and Enoch ( husband) jokingly said, look, your UFO'S. well there they were. 2 of them. He thought maybe satellites or weather ballons. ( give me a break). But over a half hour they never moved. They were pretty far apart. Un moving. But lower than the clouds. They were big. We got out binoculars and watched them. They were sort of oval. They looked like if you took a long neon bulb and bent it like a balloon with ends touching in the middle like a tube balloon and tied the ends together. They had a dark line in the center running lengthwise. Very brilliant white. They never went in any direction . No other lights other than their brilliance. Clouds were moving. The moon was moving, but they remained still.Passenger jets flew (under) them lower and military above them, but the were unnoticed, except after a half hour started gettin smaller indicating they were going straight up away. They got farther away passing through the clouds as they went getting smaller and smaller until they dissapeared beyond the clouds. Guess who is a believer now. Gloria Hager.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #168764). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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