From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-02-1986
  Subject: BUTTE, MT

CASE TYPE:   CE I - NL
     DATE:   20 SEPTEMBER 1985
     TIME:   24:01 HOURS
     CFN#:   0161
   SOURCE:   MONTANA STANDARD
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WIDSOM RANCHER LARRY SEARE AND HIS WIFE, NORELL REPORTED SEEING EIGHT OR NINE
SEPARATE LIGHTS IN A STAGG-ERED FORMATION FLYING AT ABOUT 100 MILES PER HOUR IN
A NORTHERLY DIRE-CTION OVER THE VALLEY TOWORD THE WEST PIONEER MOUNTAINS.  THE
WITNRSSES SAID THEY WERE NOT HELICOPTERS NOR JETS PERFORMING NIGHT MANEUVERS.
HE SAID HE COULD SEE NO BODY SHAPES OF ANY TYPE.  THE LIGHT WERE IN DIFFERENT
PATTERNS IN A STAGGERED LINE.  HE SAID FAR BEHIND THE OTHERS WAS A SINGLE
BRIGHT REDDISH COLORED LIGHT.  SOME OF THEM FLASHED AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS AND
SOME OF THE SMALLER LIGHTS IN THE FRONT STAYED OFF MORE THEN THE BIGGER ONES.
HE SAID IT WAS REALLY KIND OF ODD THEY DIDN'T BLINK IN THE SAME PATTERN THAT
WING TIP LIGHTS DO.  HE CALLED THE BUTTE SILVER BOW POLICE. MEANWHILE ANOTHER
WITNESS REPORTED SEEING A "V" FORMATION OF LIGHES IN THE TIMBER BUTTE AREA A
LORRAINE McINTEE WHO SAID SHE SAW SIX LIGHTS IN THE FIRST GROUP AND THREE
TRAILING FURTHER BEHIND.  THEY CAME FROM OVER THE TIMBER BUTTE AREA AND WENT
OVER THE AIRPORT AND DISAPPEARED IN TO A CLOUD BANK. OFFICIALS AT MALSTROM AIR
FORCE BASE IN GREAT FALLS SAID THEY PICKED UP NOTHING UNUSUAL ON THIR RADAR AND
KNEW OF NO NIGHT MANEUVERS OVER SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA.  ALL WITNESSES SAID THERE
WERE NO SOUNDS COMING FROM THE LIGHTS.  ALSO ALL THE WITNESSES TURNED OFF THERE
CARS AND ROLLWD DOWN THERE WINDOWS AND DIDN'T EVEN BREATHE.  WITNESSES SAID IF
IT WOULD HAVD BEEN AIRPLANES OR JETS OR HELICOPTERS THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME
SOUND.
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