Driving on I-90 East toward Bozeman at 6:45 a.m. over the mountains a huge cigar shaped white object (looked like sun reflecting off of metal) moving very slowly. Object broke into 2 perfectly round objects, one disappeared and the other turned back into a cigar shaped object and slowly disappeared behind the mountains. Event lasted approximately 10 minutes.

EVENT DATE

Jan 23, 1984, 6:45 AM

LOCATION

Bozeman, MT, USA

NUFORC FIELDS

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SHAPE

Cigar

DURATION (NUFORC)

10 min(00:10:00)

WITNESSES (NUFORC)

2.0

CHARACTERISTICS (NUFORC)

Emitted other objects

NARRATIVE

We wonder whether the witness might have been looking at a high-altitude jet aircraft, generating a contrail behind it, and reflecting the rising sun in the east.  Just a guess.  NUFORC receives many such reports.  PD

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