NUFORC Sighting 38829

Occurred: 2004-06-22 10:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-08-23 10:02 Pacific
Duration: Photo
No of observers: 5

Location: Brady (southwest), MT, USA

Shape: Other

Nothing was seen, but object is in my picture; not a bird or plane, I enlarged it to see

We were out of Brady Montana that morning, I took pictures of an old barn standing alone; None of us seen or heard anything while I was taking pictures, but when I downloaded them into my computer there was an object to the left of the barn, shaped like an oval, but had a tail on it; I enlarged this picture, it was not a bird, which is what I'd thought when I'd first seen it. Next, I looked at the other pictures I'd taken of that barn at the same time, like 4 of them, and there is nothing in any of those, either. Nothing on my lens, either. I don't know how close it was, as it was in the sky, there is nothing in many miles of this barn in the direction I was taking the picture, I even went out the next day and went around that barn and looked at the background, nothing! It could have been many miles away from that barn, too. It resembles nothing I recognize, no plane, etc. I can send the picture if you'd like it. I am just amazed that it is in that photo! Thanks, ((name deleted))

NUFORC Note:

We have viewed the photograph, and the object appears to us possibly to be a pheasant in flight. Just a guess on our part. PD

Posted 2004-08-24