By Hatchet News | June 2025

Radar Ghosts and Military Silence

At 3:17 AM on March 6, 2025, radar operators at Malmstrom Air Force Base detected something unusual—an array of fast-moving aerial objects entering restricted airspace over central Montana. Within minutes, the base scrambled two F-35s under Emergency Response Protocol Echo Red.

Locals in Cascade County reported pulsating lights, oscillating hums, and, more disturbingly, brief power surges and phone outages that stretched across multiple counties.

For 72 hours, military activity intensified. Civilian air traffic was quietly diverted. Then… nothing. No press briefing. No footage. No confirmed sighting. Just a phrase repeated by NORAD command:
“No anomalies of concern were observed.”

But people in Montana—and now around the country—aren’t buying it.

What We Know About the “Skyfall Window”

The name “Skyfall” was coined by aviation spotters tracking mysterious flight paths along the NORAD corridor. March 6–8 now marks what insiders call the Skyfall Window—a three-day period during which:

• All FAA radar feeds over Montana and parts of Wyoming went dark to civilian observers.
• A temporary TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) was issued without public notice—an action typically reserved for nuclear incidents or presidential movement.
• Six military aircraft, including stealth drones, were logged entering and exiting a 200-mile area near the Judith Mountains.
• Multiple weather stations reported unusual ionospheric disturbances.

The FAA, NOAA, and the Pentagon have all refused to release telemetry data for those three days.

Eyewitness Accounts from the Ground

Dozens of Montanans have now come forward—anonymously, for fear of reprisal—with eerily consistent accounts:

“I saw three oval lights moving in perfect triangle formation. No sound. They just hovered and blinked out.” — Rancher outside Lewistown

“Our power flickered, our well pump went crazy, and the cattle were freaking out. That wasn’t normal military.” — Ranch hand in Petroleum County

“It wasn’t one object. It was like… several things phasing in and out. One minute visible, the next just a shimmer.” — Amateur astronomer, Billings

Local police reports show 911 calls logged for “strange aerial lights,” “missing time,” and even one caller describing “vibrating air” and “invisible pressure on the chest.”

The Malmstrom Factor

Why Montana? That’s the question national news has ignored. The answer might lie in Malmstrom AFB’s mission profile.

Malmstrom is:

• Home to a large number of Minuteman III nuclear missile silos
• An operational hub of U.S. Strategic Command
• Historically tied to multiple UFO incidents—including a 1967 case where missile systems were allegedly disabled by a glowing object overhead

Since the 1970s, the area around Malmstrom has been cited in dozens of UAP reports compiled by independent groups and now partially declassified by AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office).

Skyfall may be just the latest flashpoint in an ongoing pattern of unknowns monitoring, probing, or interfering with nuclear infrastructure.

What’s Being Hidden—and Why?

The U.S. government has remained conspicuously silent. Press inquiries to the DoD, FAA, and NORAD have all been met with “no comment” or vague statements.

But insiders are speaking off the record.

A former AARO analyst, who asked to remain unnamed, told Hatchet News:

“Skyfall was real. The signature patterns match non-conventional propulsion. They don’t behave like drones. They’re… something else.”

Others suggest these anomalies may not be alien—but human tech operating outside formal military channels.
Think DARPA, private defense contractors, or black-budget programs testing anti-gravity or cloaked craft.

So why the secrecy?

• Public panic
• Strategic containment
• Uncertainty about the origin

And, possibly, because these events don’t obey known physics.

Radiation, Magnetism, and “The Buzz”

In the days following the Skyfall event, independent researchers from Montana State University recorded brief but measurable magnetic disturbances on March 7.

Local amateur radio operators reported signal distortions and “buzzing” interference on shortwave bands—phenomena similar to those recorded in Hessdalen, Norway, a long-known UAP hotspot.

One researcher logged brief gamma radiation spikes at ground level—not dangerous, but above background levels.

Whatever happened wasn’t just visible. It changed the environment.

Civilian Whistleblowers and Gag Orders

Several FAA employees have reported internal communications instructing air traffic controllers to “disregard Skyfall-related queries.”

An ATC worker in Helena, under pseudonym “TowerGhost,” provided this transcript to Hatchet News:

“[NORAD] scrambled two Echo-class intercepts. Then a blackout. Not even military radar from our station. All we got was a return tag blinking in 5-second loops. Never seen that before.”

According to TowerGhost, several controllers received “classification briefings” the week after, and one supervisor was transferred within 48 hours of asking too many questions.

A Pattern Emerging

Montana is not alone.

In the past 18 months, similar anomalies have been documented over:

• Fort Greely, Alaska
• Whiteman AFB, Missouri
• Kings Bay, Georgia (submarine base)
• Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

Each event shares elements: radar loss, visual phenomena, electromagnetic interference, and total government silence.

The Pentagon appears to be following a protocol of localized lockdown, asset scramble, then full media containment.

What Is “Skyfall,” Really?

There are four working theories circulating among experts, insiders, and fringe analysts:

1. Extraterrestrial Surveillance
   A continuation of decades-long monitoring by unknown non-human entities—possibly reacting to geopolitical instability or nuclear readiness.
2. Breakaway Human Tech
   Advanced craft developed by secret programs or rogue elements of the U.S. military-industrial complex—testing propulsion far beyond known capabilities.
3. Foreign Black Ops (China or Russia)
   Highly unlikely due to the boldness of airspace penetration and lack of hostile action—but not impossible.
4. Interdimensional Intrusions
   A controversial but increasingly discussed theory that Skyfall is evidence of brief “rips” or portals between spatial layers—backed by data showing gravitational distortions.

The Psychological Impact

Montanans are rattled. Local podcasts, social media channels, and even church groups are speculating that the government is covering up something cosmic.

Mental health professionals in the region report a spike in:

• Sleep disturbances
• Claustrophobic episodes
• Sudden onset anxiety

Several people interviewed describe a persistent hum in their ears days after the event—an unexplained side effect reported during earlier UAP encounters globally.

A Quiet Omen in Montana

The Skyfall Events are not just an isolated incident—they’re a signal.

A signal that the air above us, once the realm of clouds and jets, is now a theater for unknown intelligence, hidden warfare, or cosmic phenomena that we’re not meant to understand—or not yet allowed to know.

As always, the silence from official channels is louder than any sonic boom. But those who were under the sky that night will not forget what they saw, heard, or felt.

Because something came.
And no one in power wants to tell us what.