Montana resident Ashley McGowan told CNN she received a call from her neighbor wondering if she had heard jets flying about their neighborhood in the town of Reed Point on Wednesday.
McGowan said she went outside to let her dogs out and saw a bright white dot in the sky.
At first, she said she and her husband asked themselves, “What’s happening? Is this a UFO or is it like trash or is it the star? I had somebody try to tell me it was the green comet; I’m like, that’s way too close to be the comet,” McGowan said. “This isn’t normal. There’s jets flying everywhere.”
McGowan said her husband, Dylan Nobles, brought out a spotting scope and tried to judge how far it was. The closest estimate he could get was about 27,000 feet in the sky.
McGowan said she witnessed an airliner divert away from it and that jets were flying overhead for at least 45 minutes while they were watching the sky.
Reed Point is about 60 miles west of Billings.
