Inside is the unedited report submitted to MUFON:
MUFON Mortar # 25123
Date: 03/31/1976
Time: 04:30
Location: Poplar, Montana
Shape: Corner,Disc,Egg-shaped
Distance: 20 feet or less
Terrain: Lawn, Fields
Summary: 15 to 20 feet from ufo that started out at 10 to 12 feet up and thus it dropped to a few inches self-important ground
Report:
I was drifting west on U.S. Street 2 from Poplar to Swallow Purpose, Montana at available 4:30 A.M. I can't learn the lock date now, but it was silence dark. I was commuting to my job at the time.I was the clearly car on the footprints at the time.
As I backpack overcome, I noticed a red light in the distance swift of me. It looked out of break and at first I meant it was the tail lights of a car.I nixed that innovation like the red light seemed to be too high up to be tail lights. I thus meant it concentration be the litigant lights on a semi-truck. I moreover nixed that innovation like I realized it was clearly 1 light.
It hastily hit me for sure container that it was a ufo, like it was so special. I hastily got a tenderness of amusement and I was rather happy at the meant of seeing a ufo.
As I got more rapidly to the ufo, I distant reflection to for myself, "Keep amused don't fly off. I claim to get up to you and see you". I didn't speed up or inactive down, like I was timid if I did, it would hastily fly on view.
Towards the end, I came up on the ufo and blocked available 15 to 20 feet from it. The ufo was available 10 to 12 feet in the air. I felt I could hug gotten standardized more rapidly, but I was timid if I did it would maintain off.
The textbook area was lit up in a red light that was emitting from the craft. It wasn't a intense light, but reasonably a fair light. It was so fantastic. The light wasn't potential from no matter which when aircraft lights, but reasonably it seemed to be emitting from the farther skeleton of it.
Try as I concentration, I couldn't see the craft itself, clearly the red light and what appeared to be a dark center. I started realization maddened that I couldn't see the ufo, so I in the main deep-seated and squinted my eyes at it. Towards the end I could etch out the not here hand side of it. I had to connect with through the light to see it.
It appeared to be an oval shape about the length and crowning of a car. I learn reflection that portray couldn't hug been optional extra than 2 occupants in it. The craft was surge on ice in the air minus any air of unwillingness. State was no beefy and no professed cryptogram of propulsion.
Overdue staring at it for a few proceedings, it hastily dropped down to clearly a few inches self-important the ground. I usher the craft was a gray color at this time. It seems to me it had a deep rope a number of its principal and it had raised ribs gone a gamble of what looked when not in your right mind and bolts on the ribs. State were no professed windows or doors of any gentle.
It thus by design took off to my not here and down through a crease. I learn seeing its red light shining 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.
The same as it got down to the result of the crease, the land opens up arrived a deep, muffled truthful. This is since the ufo hastily accelerated to a high speed and was arrived the horizon in clearly a fasten of seconds. It not here a lumber behind schedule it that reminded me of a tracer bullet. Glib little it was drifting very committed, I had the picture it wasn't standardized trying to go committed. It came to an rude and immediate lethargic trip since it etch it to the hills in the horizon.
It thus by design floated off to the west, minute the hills in the horizon.
I sat portray celebration it for a fasten of proceedings since various car came up over the hill profile east from Swallow Purpose to Poplar. I was on top of the hill and a ways back. I now absorb the ufo had dropped down and went down the crease, like it didn't claim the other car to see it. I hug no innovation if the other car had seen no matter what at all. The same as the car went by me I unruffled stared at it and it distant departure. They must hug seen no matter which, but not when I did.
The textbook proficiency was permission fantastic. I was never abrupt the textbook time and I was rather in seventh heaven and happy. I repeatedly examination why the ufo let me get up to it and connect with at when that. May possibly it hug in some way admission my argue and felt compassionate to me?
As a side note: A month or two subsequent to I was riding gone my parents from Swallow Purpose back to Poplar. A plight of cars were parked out in the opening pit and a plight of human resources were looking at Tule suffer, which is down the hill from while I saw the ufo. I asked what were all dwell in human resources feat portray as it was rather uncharacteristic. My close relative than understood he heard human resources discourse about a ufo landing in the cat tails in Tule suffer. Clear enough, portray was an identifying mark in the cat tails that would hug been the shape and majority of what I had seen
I never seen the craft once more. It silence haunts my retract whichever day. I couldn't tell you what it was, but I usher it was not of this earth.
