Sphere over 20 miles west of billings, mt, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Metalic sphere moving from east to west just south of my home. No noise, no lights. Flying low level at about 3000ft elevation. You could see lines on the side of the sphere (structural ?). Moving fast than normal aircraft. Encounter lasted about a minute before it went out of sight. Size was roughly 3x's the size of our local medical helo, who routinely flies a similar path. It could be a bit bigger. I have video of the encounter. The video is not great but look left of the top of tree. This is the latter part of the encounter. When I first saw it...it was much closer and it took me a few second to get video going and track in on it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171555). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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