A bright, glowing UFO, a classic ‘cigar’ shape reported by witnesses for decades, has now been captured on military-grade night vision video.
The unknown object, apparently slow and moving silently, “appeared blurry to the naked eye,” according to the Montana local who spotted it in June.
The blurry image only took on a more defined shape with the help of the witness’s night-vision camera, made by military contractor SiOnyx, which also makes consumer models.
The unusual long cylinder of light appears to slide slowly at an angle in front of an extensive star field over ‘Big Sky Country’, just before disappearing behind a mountain range visible from the witness’ location along Airport Road in Belgrade.
The sighting occurred less than four miles east of Montana’s Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, also in Belgrade, although the eerie video contains no sounds of commercial air traffic as the UFO zooms through the starry night sky.
A bright, glowing white UFO, with the classic ‘cigar’ shape common in these aerial mysteries, was captured this month with military-grade night vision by a Montana local (above)
“They look like Starlink satellites,” said Alejandro Rojas, an advisor to the new technology company Enigma Labs, whose UFO database received the witness’ presentation, “which look like a long train of satellites in a row. But these look like a solid object.
“Sometimes we receive videos like this that are disconcerting,” said Alejandro Rojas, an advisor to the technology startup Enigma Labs, whose UFO database received the witness’ submission.
“They look like Starlink satellites,” Rojas told DailyMail.com, “which look like a long train of satellites in a row.” But they look like a single solid object.
Enigma has created a massive catalog of UFO incidents, now more technically known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), to separate what is truly unusual in our skies from what is simply a trick of the eye.
In recent years, the term UAP has become more common to describe UFOs, as its more cautious framing assumes less about the events witnessed.
An aerial phenomenon could be anything from airborne gases heated to plasma, such as the famous northern lights, to reflections of ice crystals in a cloud, and even more exotic cases of real, solid, sturdy objects, such as a ‘flyer’. alien spaceship.
The Montana witness saw the UAP in the early morning hours of June 5, 2024, about ten minutes before 3 a.m. Mountain Time.
“We love getting these videos out to the public so investigators can help us figure it out,” Rojas told DailyMail.com via email.
“In some cases, they demonstrate a real mystery and help demonstrate why the Pentagon and NASA say they are taking UAPs seriously,” according to Rojas, who is now founder and president of the new nonprofit research organization of UAP. UAP discovery.
In the video, the unusual, long “cigar” UFO appears to slowly glide at an angle past the stars, just before disappearing behind a mountain range visible from the witness’ location along Airport Road in the city of Belgrade. (above, a view from the place where the UFO was seen)
Above, the Northern Lights and Milky Way stars visible over Lake McDonald, the largest lake in Montana’s Glacier National Park, far north of this UAP sighting.
‘NASA and the Pentagon say that data is missing and that is the problem we are seeking to solve,’ Rojas explained.
Enigma Labs, he noted, now “receives hundreds of videos a week on our app, and while the vast majority turn out to be something mundane, at least some are harder to explain.”
This UAP sighting in Montana, Enigma case #294125may be related to a particular quirk of the hardware and software behind SiOnyx night vision, which the company delivered to the US military as part of a contract of approximately 20 million dollars.
Some owners of one of SiOnyx’s consumer models, the SiOnyx Aurora Sport, have reported that it “doesn’t seem to handle high contrast light very well.”
“If you have a well-lit area and a darker area in the frame at the same time, either the bright area will be blown out or the dark area will be too dark to see clearly,” as one member of the Reddit group said. r/Night Vision noted in 2020.
The result of this type of “exploited” contrast problem could lead to a train of bright, sunlight-reflecting Starlink satellites looking like one long, solid object.
The unknown, apparently slowly and silently moving object, the witness said, “appeared blurry to the naked eye,” taking on a more defined shape only with the help of his digital night-vision camera, manufactured by U.S. military contractor SiOnyx. (above one of the SiOnyx cameras). night vision products)
It’s unclear which of the company’s night vision offerings was used by the witness, who reported his sighting to Enigma anonymously, but the UAP tracking company hopes to collaborate on the case to gain more leads from the public.
But over more than a century, cigar-shaped UAPs have persisted as a perennial category in eyewitness reports.
In 1977, for example, 15 children in the Welsh village of Broad Haven (14 boys and one girl) reported to their teachers that they had seen a curious silver cigar-shaped plane in the fields behind their school.
The incident, in which this object hovered over this small village (population 856), is now the subject of a new four-part BBC documentary, Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens.
Like countless cigar-shaped UFOs dating back to the late 19th century, when witnesses described them as “aircraft,” this case remains unsolved to this day.
In May, the Enigma team revealed nine highly unusual and never-before-seen videos taken of UFOs or UAPs, including several cases of bright, hazy UFO ‘orbs’.
Those videos, uploaded to the Enigma database by citizen researchers in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, show UAP appearing noiselessly out of nowhere and disappearing into thin air.
This week, Enigma shared a new bonus video case with DailyMail.com: a June 8, 2024 sighting from Watford City, North Dakota taken shortly after midnight.
“We were camping and someone saw a shooting star,” the witness told Enigma in his presentation.
But, the witness continued, “after looking at it closely and ruling out everything else it could be,” the campers eventually began to be less sure that it was a shooting star, as the object seemed to float in the night. them.
“UAPs are really a numbers game,” Rojas said.
“If one in a thousand seems strange, collecting them en masse is the best way to reach those worth investigating.”