UFO sightings in Montana
There are 29 civilian UFO sighting reports from Montana in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1975 to 2013. The busiest year was 1999, with 5 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (7), disc (4) and sphere (4).
Most reports come from Bozeman (3), Missoula (3) and Billings (2), out of 21 places in the state with at least one report.
UFO sightings by city in Montana
Places with at least three reports. 19 other places in Montana have one or two.
Recent sighting reports from Montana
All 29 reports, newest first.
Light to the west.
Show on map- 2 Oct 2012 · 20:29Montana CityOrb· 10 s
Bright red light leading a helicopter at night.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2011 · 21:00ZortmanOrb· 30 min
Small bright yellow white light forming into three. making a loud roaring noise.
Show on map - 20 Oct 2010 · 21:00BillingsOrb· 15 min
Light moving slowly in a circle outside Billings
Show on map It was mid-October, 2008, at 9 p.m. and full dark. We live in a drainage just west of Missoula, MT. When we took our little dog out for
Show on map- 13 Oct 2008 · 21:30ButteOther· 1 h
40-50 lights flying over Butte Montana in a V formation
Show on map object starlike flew then stopped and stayed there all night.
Show on map- 15 Oct 2007 · 20:00Wolf PointOrb· 30 s
Bright large orb with bright light shining to ground, lasted only 30 seconds.
Show on map - 21 Oct 2006 · 07:30HamiltonDiamond· 4 s
Small cloud becomes trapezoid shape and disappears
Show on map - 15 Oct 2006 · 18:00KalispellOther· 20 min
Mettalic, teardrop shaped object hover in the sky above house
Show on map - 14 Oct 2005 · 19:45LincolnDisc· 30 min
egg/circle shaped, red/yellow/white lights - west of Lincoln tonight
Show on map - 15 Oct 2004 · 06:55Great FallsOther· 2 s
5 or 6 elliptical lights appear in front of truck and then suddenly move over it and disappear
Show on map there was a haze around object
Show on map- 15 Oct 2002 · 20:10RexfordBoomerang· 30 s
Twelve chevron shaped crafts spotte over Lake Koocanusa, Montana.
Show on map - 20 Oct 1999 · 08:15StevensvilleOther· 1 min
looked to east saw sparkling dot with white plume coming out of top.to left of object saw fast moving aircraft leaving vapor trails. As
Show on map - 20 Oct 1999 · 08:15StevensvilleOther· 2 min
Saw sparkler type light with white plume out of top in Eastern sky about 60 degrees above horizon.
Show on map THREE SMALL FLYING OBJECTS CAME TOGETHER FROM DIFFERNT AREAS TO FORM A STACKED FORMATION, THEN ROTATED CLOCK WISE TO ABOUT 2 OCLOCK FO
Show on mapSome of my friend and I were outside, smoking when something flew over us. It looked like an airplane at first, but it was to big, and
Show on map- 2 Oct 1999 · 22:45KalispellBoomerang· 5 s
Group of 5 (perhaps 7) faint, diffuse, eliptical white lights, traveling quite quickly north to south. Relatively low altitude; discer
Show on map - 28 Oct 1998 · 03:00Polson/PabloDisc· 4 s
Check the Polson Paper "Lake County Leader" for the date of 10/28/98. Many people sighted theses and a friend said he was abducted. I h
Show on map - 19 Oct 1998 · 16:30Big ArmDisc· 10 min
Facing East, clear sky, characterized by bright light blinking at very cadence from one to five. Movement pattern was up, down, then t
Show on map - 16 Oct 1998 · 24:00Ronan/PolsonDisc· 3 h
Two large craft stationery @ 20000 feet above sea level
Show on map - 23 Oct 1997 · 16:30BillingsCigar· 3 min
Dark gray, cylindrical, object about 100m wide and 40m tall. Hovered in circle, about 20 miles away.
Show on map - 14 Oct 1995 · 22:30TroyOther· 2 s
Two women witness green obj, "size of full moon," fly directly toward them, descend from SE. Illuminated trees on top of mtn..
Show on map - 15 Oct 1993 · 00:00ButteSphere· 30 s
A hovering object in the vicinity of "The Lady of the Mountains".
Show on map - 1 Oct 1993 · 20:00PryorOrb· 30 min
Floating Light, Like a Spotlight
Show on map - 15 Oct 1987 · 22:30BakerOrb· 10 min
bright light came out from behind a cloud and split off into 6 smaller lights leaving at a high speed
Show on map - 25 Oct 1978 · 16:00Virginia CityOther· 10 min
While elk hunting South of town I sighted a huge object which was shiny like mylar or a mirror but seemed metalic. It was shaped like a
Show on map - 15 Oct 1975 · 22:00RyegateSphere· 1 h
10/15/75. Round shape, extremely bright white light, took off (up) when I told it to "come get me".
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.