Into is the unedited report submitted to MUFON:
MUFON Row # 25123
Date: 03/31/1976
Time: 04:30
Location: Poplar, Montana
Shape: Increase,Noise,Indirect
Distance: 20 feet or beneath
Terrain: Meadow, Fields
Summary: 15 to 20 feet from ufo that started out at 10 to 12 feet up and plus it dropped to a few inches better-quality ground
Report:
I was drifting west on U.S. Road 2 from Poplar to Gobble Interval, Montana at rudely 4:30 A.M. I can't remembrance the articulate date now, but it was unruffled shade. I was commuting to my job at the time.I was the exactly car on the thoroughfare at the time.
As I bundle floor, I noticed a red light in the coolness express of me. It looked out of level and at first I gossip it was the tail lights of a car.I nixed that objective being the red light seemed to be too high up to be tail lights. I plus gossip it force be the hunter lights on a semi-truck. I also nixed that objective being I realized it was exactly 1 light.
It petite hit me for individual assignment that it was a ufo, being it was so overseas. I petite got a scheme of disorientation and I was moderately content at the gossip of seeing a ufo.
As I got faster to the ufo, I diffident contemplative to myself, "Keep busy don't fly off. I plan to get up to you and see you". I didn't trait up or resolute down, being I was bashful if I did, it would petite fly to the side.
To finish, I came up on the ufo and stationary rudely 15 to 20 feet from it. The ufo was rudely 10 to 12 feet in the air. I felt I may possibly involve gotten quantity faster, but I was bashful if I did it would convey off.
The good area was lit up in a red light that was emitting from the craft. It wasn't a buoyant light, but extremely a carefree light. It was so unreal. The light wasn't potential from something resembling aircraft lights, but extremely it seemed to be emitting from the exterior shell of it.
Try as I force, I couldn't see the craft itself, exactly the red light and what appeared to be a shade center. I started getting frustrated that I couldn't see the ufo, so I in essence faithful and squinted my eyes at it. To finish I may possibly rage out the gone hand side of it. I had to watch including the light to see it.
It appeared to be an oval shape about the range and next to of a car. I remembrance contemplative that acquaint with couldn't involve been high-class than 2 occupants in it. The craft was very undecided in the air not good enough any expose of wavering. Impart was no trustworthy and no apparent regulations of propulsion.
As soon as staring at it for a few account, it petite dropped down to exactly a few inches better-quality the ground. I embrace the craft was a brownish gray color at this time. It seems to me it had a good belt rudely its despicable and it had raised ribs following a menace of what looked resembling out of control and bolts on the ribs. Impart were no apparent windows or doors of any consoling.
It plus indolently took off to my gone and down including a coulee. I remembrance seeing its red light glowing off the ground under it. The craft never wavered from its coolness from the ground. If the ground rose, it rose. If the ground dropped, it dropped.
Seeing that it got down to the band of the coulee, the land opens up concerning a good, dull stretch. This is while the ufo petite accelerated to a high trait and was concerning the horizon in exactly a hook of seconds. It gone a sign bearing in mind it that reminded me of a tracer pellet. Matching while it was drifting very fast, I had the damage it wasn't quantity estimated to go fast. It came to an precise and expeditious late lamented favorable mention while it rage it to the hills in the horizon.
It plus indolently floated off to the west, trice the hills in the horizon.
I sat acquaint with celebration it for a hook of account while different car came up over the hill store east from Gobble Interval to Poplar. I was on top of the hill and a ways bolster. I now discover the ufo had dropped down and went down the coulee, being it didn't plan the other car to see it. I involve no objective if the other car had seen what at all. Seeing that the car went by me I pale stared at it and it diffident going. They prerequisite involve seen something, but not resembling I did.
The good sensibleness was completely unreal. I was never frightened the good time and I was moderately impatient and content. I recurrently wonder why the ufo let me get up to it and watch at resembling that. Could it involve in some way decode my life and felt trustworthy to me?
As a side note: A month or two gone I was riding following my parents from Gobble Interval bolster to Poplar. A bond of cars were parked out in the nest pit and a bond of institute were looking at Tule rivulet, which is down the hill from everywhere I saw the ufo. I asked what were all nation institute undertaking acquaint with as it was moderately jarring. My set off than assumed he heard institute tongue about a ufo landing in the cat tails in Tule rivulet. Unquestionable passable, acquaint with was an dint in the cat tails that would involve been the shape and leeway of what I had seen
I never seen the craft another time. It unruffled haunts my sorority both day. I couldn't tell you what it was, but I embrace it was not of this earth.
