Cigar over Bismarck double ditch, ND

The report, as filed

I was out at double ditch with a friend we were star gazing and noticed two lights running paraell to each other and they flared brightly which caught our attention,and they were moving together and this thing was friggin huge and it moved across the sky and went over our heads and at one point one of the lights like shot off three smaller lights which moved outward and placed themselves in the sky like stars. The two lights that were on opposite ends of this large long object continued moving across the sky toward the east till it faded from sight. The three objects that were ejected stayed stationary in the sky disguised as stars! What a perfect cover to conceal themselves as stars....was our thought.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142657). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.