As reported

Sphere over Babb, MT

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The report, as filed

Driving from Many Glacier to Essex MT through Babb Mt. Headed south on HWY 89, we had just turned left onto State HWY 464. It was the faster route back. We looked to our left saw Chief Mountain, I asked my girlfriend to grab a photo, all she grabbed was a quick 2-second video, so then I could screen shot a photo of Chief Mt. (We do that, grab videos then take screen shots) Later that day reviewing photos I was trying to find a good screen shot from the video, as I slowed the video down there was a spec in each frame of the video. I blew it off at first but it looked as if the spec was following a track/pathway. Each frame the spec/sphere/shape moved and looked a bit different and followed a path with a slight turn/arch in the last couple frames. This video is shot with an iPhone14Pro while we are traveling at least 75mph. I will send you the original video but you don’t see it until the speed is decreased. I would have never seen this if I was not editing a random 2 second video, just for a decent photo. It’s pretty remarkable that this 2 sec clip might have caught something. Definitely hesitant to send this is, because as it is odd it also could just be a bug, bird or debris. I guess why it’s unidentified. Hope the videos uploaded. Thank You

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178772). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Just sharing an experience my boys and I had last night. Me and three of my boys were out in our hot tub looking up at the stars, which is pretty common for us on an evening, we frequently see satellite activity, and airplanes and point out constellations and specific stars. It was a very clear moonless night, with 0 light pollution. At the same time, three of us each noticed a different "satellite" moving seemingly slowly, across the sky from different directions. They all converged into an exact isosceles triangle, not very far above us in the NE sky. The triangle then spun in a clockwise direction three times, putting the three "lights" each back into their original positions in the triangle. They then spread from each other a small distance at the same speed, then disappeared. My boys were all exclaimed, "whoa, we should have videoed that!".