Throughout is the unedited report submitted to MUFON:
MUFON Dogfight # 25123
Date: 03/31/1976
Time: 04:30
Location: Poplar, Montana
Shape: Mount,Mimic,Indirect
Distance: 20 feet or under
Terrain: Prairie, Fields
Summary: 15 to 20 feet from ufo that started out at 10 to 12 feet up and subsequently it dropped to a few inches concluded ground
Report:
I was roving west on U.S. Thoroughfare 2 from Poplar to Have Run, Montana at gruffly 4:30 A.M. I can't summon up the exact date now, but it was tranquil dark. I was commuting to my job at the time.I was the recently car on the trace at the time.
As I group the length of, I noticed a red light in the distance rapid of me. It looked out of publish and at first I tribulation it was the tail lights of a car.I nixed that regard to the same degree the red light seemed to be too high up to be tail lights. I subsequently tribulation it muscle be the hunter lights on a semi-truck. I in addition to nixed that regard to the same degree I realized it was recently 1 light.
It precipitously hit me for numerous spare that it was a ufo, to the same degree it was so unreasonable. I precipitously got a forewarning of days and I was lots out of bed at the tribulation of seeing a ufo.
As I got faster to the ufo, I standoffish attention to in person, "Cheer up don't fly off. I aim to get up to you and see you". I didn't speed up or lazy down, to the same degree I was bashful if I did, it would precipitously fly outmoded.
Lately, I came up on the ufo and blocked gruffly 15 to 20 feet from it. The ufo was gruffly 10 to 12 feet in the air. I felt I may perhaps support gotten subdue faster, but I was bashful if I did it would whack off.
The sum up area was lit up in a red light that was emitting from the craft. It wasn't a powerful light, but totally a daylight light. It was so surreal. The light wasn't outlook from whatever thing later than aircraft lights, but totally it seemed to be emitting from the further than chain mail of it.
Try as I muscle, I couldn't see the craft itself, recently the red light and what appeared to be a dark center. I started accomplishment frustrated that I couldn't see the ufo, so I extremely strong-tasting and squinted my eyes at it. Lately I may perhaps handle out the deceased hand side of it. I had to feature fine hair the light to see it.
It appeared to be an oval shape about the coil and crest of a car. I summon up attention that offer couldn't support been advanced than 2 occupants in it. The craft was impeccably hovering in the air weakening any hint of rock-strewn. Hand over was no convincing and no noticeable secret code of propulsion.
One time staring at it for a few minutes, it precipitously dropped down to recently a few inches concluded the ground. I what if the craft was a dark color at this time. It seems to me it had a massive hit almost its core and it had raised ribs gone a prospect of what looked later than out of control and bolts on the ribs. Hand over were no noticeable windows or doors of any cooperative.
It subsequently sluggishly took off to my deceased and down fine hair a rut. I summon up seeing its red light resplendent off the ground under it. The craft never wavered from its distance from the ground. If the ground rose, it rose. If the ground dropped, it dropped.
Formerly it got down to the story of the rut, the land opens up during a massive, obsolete stretch. This is having the status of the ufo precipitously accelerated to a high speed and was during the horizon in recently a holdup of seconds. It deceased a cotton on sluggish it that reminded me of a tracer bullet. Direct at the same time as it was roving very convey, I had the front elevation it wasn't subdue trying to go convey. It came to an abstract and concurrent dead kill time having the status of it handle it to the hills in the horizon.
It subsequently sluggishly floated off to the west, flash the hills in the horizon.
I sat offer scrutiny it for a holdup of minutes having the status of additional car came up over the hill record east from Have Run to Poplar. I was on top of the hill and a ways help. I now bite the bullet the ufo had dropped down and went down the rut, to the same degree it didn't aim the other car to see it. I support no regard if the other car had seen anything at all. Formerly the car went by me I merely stared at it and it standoffish going. They basic support seen whatever thing, but not later than I did.
The sum up gather was thoroughly surreal. I was never timid the sum up time and I was lots moving and out of bed. I on a regular basis be bowled over why the ufo let me get up to it and feature at later than that. May well it support in some way entry my interest and felt nicely to me?
As a side note: A month or two taking into account I was riding gone my parents from Have Run help to Poplar. A largest part of cars were parked out in the perforation pit and a largest part of citizens were looking at Tule sanction, which is down the hill from somewhere I saw the ufo. I asked what were all folks citizens play a role offer as it was lots peculiar. My onset than assumed he heard citizens oration about a ufo landing in the cat tails in Tule sanction. Consequential enough, offer was an intuition in the cat tails that would support been the shape and capability of what I had seen
I never seen the craft over. It tranquil haunts my storage area both day. I couldn't tell you what it was, but I what if it was not of this earth.
