Montana man records shocking up-close footage of UFO rotating in air that made his wife 'cry'

A man in small-town Montana has captured footage of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) and shared the shocking video that made his wife 'cry' on Reddit.

The video was recorded on Friday between 10:10 and 10:15 pm, and showed what appears to be a blinking craft streaking across the clear night sky.

Said to have been spinning and adorned with a series of rotating lights, the apparent object flew over tiny Choteau, home to a population of just over 1,700 people.

The videos, along with the original poster's in-depth account of the sighting, reveals how the man and his wife first mistook the unknown object for a meteor. 

It comes after Montana was singled out as a hotspot for UFO sightings, with visitors recording some of the most significant and well-documented footage. 

'On Friday night my wife and I were sitting on the deck out back looking at the stars - we do this every night,' wrote the unnamed poster, who goes by the user name PoneThePoon.

'Just after 10pm my wife said "is that a shooting star??", which I found odd, because if it was I wouldn't have time to look at it. 

'The tree near me was blocking the direction she was staring so I got up and looked, and my jaw dropped,' he continued. 

'I said 'Holy s**t. Holy s**t!!' and we both jumped off of the deck and got into the yard for a better view.'

Three separate clips show a light in the distance that appeared to be rotating in mid-air and the edge of what appeared to be a craft.

The sight, he said, left his spouse in tears after it lingered for a few minutes before flying away.

'The craft seemed huge, miles away,' he recalled - adding how it had several blinking and spinning lights, and a rotating orange-red light on the bottom. 

'You can only see the orange/red light in the video,' he explained, revealing, 'We observed it for 2-3 minutes as it continued flying away, and then it was just gone. 

'No noise, it was just gone.'

He also recalled how once the photos and video were secured on his wife's Galaxy Fold 4, he tried to do the same on his Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra.

However, he said, the phone 'died right in front of my eyes'.

Rushing to retrieve his charger, he continued to use his wife's phone to take 'tons of various zoomed photos and videos,' he recalled.  

'What I have here is the best that came out of all that, this thing was really far away for a night time phone shot, so I'm pleased with what we did get.'

Speaking about the possibility that the craft was an Elon Musk-made satellite, he said: 'I don't believe this was Starlink.'

'I've watched a ton of Starlink videos since observing this, and our lights were rotating/blinking, not a static line of unchanging lights.

'After we got inside to see what we actually captured, my wife was shaking and crying from the experience,' he concluded.

'It was kind of scary, I couldn't fall asleep until 4am and it was my night to do the early feed for our twin boys.'

The Reddit post was soon met with awe by commenters.

'Really cool footage. Good explanation too,' wrote viewer impressed by the post.

'Kudos. Now don't let them disappear into the abyss. Good footage has a way of inexplicably going missing,' the person added.

'Download it, keep copies,' another chimed in, as the post received more than 3,200 upvotes in less than a day.

'This could have been the best UFO video ever if the sky was just a little bit lighter,' added a third top commenter. 'Frustrating, but definitely interesting.' 

After asking what others thought of the sighting, most appeared to be at least be open to the idea the craft being something that cannot be explained.

'Awesome!' one such commenter wrote on Monday, as the post was bombarded with a bevy of replies.

'You should download the app Phenom and post this there!' the person added. 'It cant be taken down by anyone online or banned... This is great footage.'

The origins and nature of the apparent craft remain unknown. No other reports of the sighting have surfaced.

Montana has emerged in recent years as a hotspot for UFO activity, potentially due to the state's sparse population and roaming, vacant plains.

In 1950, two spinning disks seemingly flew over Great Falls and were captured on a hand-held camera - yielding clips that continue to defy conventional explanation to this day 

In the '60s, apparent UFOs were seen over the Minuteman missile silos - then home to a vast arsenal of nuclear missiles in the midst of the Great Plains.  

In separate incidents that occurred while the alleged UFO hung overhead, a series of armed and ready nuclear missiles were suddenly deactivated - leaving missile launch officers at a loss. 

The US Air Force allegedly ordered these men never to tell anyone what happened, books like Joan Bird's Montana UFO's and Extraterrestrials have claimed.

The account examines such events and why they occur in the state, with many reports remaining unexplained in both government and private circles.