State Report
UFO Sightings in Montana
1,529 sightings on record from 1865 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
1,529
Share of US total
0.71%
Peak year
2012
140 reports
Top shape
Light
315 reports
Years active
158
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-02 | Great Falls | light | 3:45AM on going hr + | 5+ white lights circling/maneuvering from our perspective over or beyond Malmstrom Airforce Base. Lights changed in... |
| 2023-09-28 | Babb | sphere | 1-2 Sec Video Clip | Reviewing videos to take screen shots, slowed the video down and saw a spec/sphere move across the video following a... |
| 2023-09-28 | Butte | cube | I did not stick around | Cube shaped item w no visible propulsion means. Followed shortly thereafter by three jets |
| 2023-09-18 | Whitefish | cube | 10-15 Seconds | Two Black cubes flew between clouds |
| 2023-08-29 | Polson | star | 25 seconds | Saw a super bright star and thought it might be moving. So I grabbed my cellphone and started recording. Then it really... |
| 2023-08-21 | Bozeman | triangle | 30 seconds | A triangle of lights with no sound and faint went across the sky super fast one of the lights in the back dropped off... |
| 2023-08-16 | Stevensville | formation | 10 seconds | 3 white lights evenly spaced in a straight line |
| 2023-08-12 | Billings | circle | The video is 34 seconds | This object was caught on video in 30fps when filming at the Blue Angles air show. |
| 2023-08-05 | Helena | rectangle | 1 minute roughly | Fiery "ball" object seen way up in the distance - it hovered in one spot, then moved to the east maybe 1000 yards and... |
| 2023-07-30 | Missoula | unknown | It lasted seconds | I was outside on my back deck when I looked up and saw a bright light moving extremely fast for an air craft and made no... |
| 2023-06-09 | Billings | light | 3-5 minutes | Saw bright lights in the moved upwards and interacted with each other eventually fading out 1 by 1. |
| 2023-06-01 | Bozeman | circle | It showed/it disappeared | A round object that didn't move in one spot. |
| 2023-05-01 | Browning | circle | 5 minutes | Above Browning montana |
| 2023-02-09 | Somers | other | Unknown | Noticed stationary structure on mountainside of national forest land with no tracks or visible way of having gotten to... |
| 2022-12-31 | Missoula | light | 1-2 minutes | Two lights moving in symmetry. |
| 2022-12-18 | Stevensville | triangle | 1 minute | Blue triangle of lights |
| 2022-11-24 | Huntley | cylinder | 20 minutes | Aspirin shaped craft |
| 2022-11-20 | Whitehall | cylinder | I have video 15 min | I saw it coming out from hunting and took a video |
| 2022-11-19 | bellgrade | disk | about 2 minutes | UFO/ UAP over Bozeman Montana. Ship was at least 100 yards width and 20 yards hight hovering for two min and... |
| 2022-10-15 | Missoula | other | 9 mins approximately | Silver metal boomerang shaped object that moved across the sky and changed shape. |