Cigar over Highland, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Slow moving dark object flying in the sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2009-04-27 → 2009-05-14
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June 7, 2019 · 10:51 PM · UNKNOWN
Highland, IN
My rommate and I saw the obect from our patio move across the sky at a relatively slow rate. Slower than a small single engine plane would. The lights at the back of the object blinked in a strange fashion. About 5 lights would blink at different intervals and then they would all go black. They would turn off for about 2 seconds and then continue on in the same strange blinking pattern. The lights were rectangular and orientes vertically. It moved from the west towards the southeast in a straight line. No sound could be heard coming from it. It was difficult to make out the exact shape of it.
June 7, 2019 · 10:51 PM
Highland, IN
Witness was at home and his roommate called to him to come outside onto the balcony to see something in the night sky at about 10:50 pm central standard time. The sky was clear but it was especially dark because it was a waxing crescent moon with 21% visibility that evening. They thought it was a plane at first but it was flying relatively low and they were were unable to make out a shape of the object which was strange because there were commercial and small engine airplanes flying this evening at varying altitudes and they could make out the shape of the planes even though it was dark. This thing had about 5 rectangular white lights oriented vertically across the back of it. The lights pulsated and flashed in a staggered order and then they would go completely dark for about one or two seconds and continue flashing again in rapid succession. They were not able to hear any sound coming from it nor were they able to see any kind of exhaust trail coming from! it. It moved from west to east in a straight line and they observed it facing south. It moved slower than a single engine plane would which made it stand out even more. They thought it might be a drone but it was unlike any drone they'd ever seen before. They followed its trajectory which was viewed above a tree line for about the next 4 minutes until it was no longer visible behind the tree line. Witness included digital photos / screen grabs from video (a couple are zoomed in and cropped) and video that are relatively bad quality because of how dark it was but it highlights well what they saw.
March 21, 2016 · 3:18 AM · OTHER
Highland, IN
I saw a bright light out of the norm south southeast and seemed to be still. Then it started flying north west which is a flight pattern I have not seen a plane fly near my house before. The front of the craft was like a bright white light that was extremely bright in the very center and the light seemed to tail off to make a arch like shape pretty much like a U pattern but a side ways U which meant the bottom of the U would be to the left or facing North. After the sideways U in front there was another set of white lights in the shape of a cross starting with the front light of the craft and going towards the back of the craft. Besides the U in front and the cross there were also a bunch of extremely fast and random and the blinking lights seemed to be blue in color and then there was 4 or 5 red lights in the back in the shape of a circle or square. ! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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