Triangle over Cambridge City, IN
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The report, as filed
My wife and myself were driving E on US 40 just passing downtown Cambridge City when we noticed a large triangular (?) shape craft flying very low in airspace that doesn't make sense. What I mean is, it at first resembled a commercial airplane considering the size and formation of lights, but it was flying at a height just barely above the trees/power lines and housetops, flying N/NW. There were 2 white lights where wings of a jet or plane might be, and one red light at the tail that was flashing (hence, forming a triangle). I know this sounds like a commercial airplane, but there's no way that this "plane" would have been flying so low and without sound to boot. After noticing these anomalies, we began to chase after it, heading N on Graham Street and E on Delaware to jog over to SR-1 N. As we headed N on SR-1 and could still see the object for a few minutes, this time flying NE/N, until it was gone above the industrial park just south of the! SR-1/I-70 Interchange. Looking back on the event, and even though this sighting happened after dark, my wife believes that the object looked, most-likely, that it was in fact 1 or 2 separate objects (accounting for both of the white lights) with the red-lit flashing object in tow. I couldn't necessarily say that I saw anything between the lights, and she's not saying that she could either, but that made more sense to her senses and what she was actually seeing than it being 1 solid craft. Again, this is a densely-populated area that would not have seen a commercial-sized aircraft this low EVER - but that was precisely the size of it. Finally, the lights, while appearing not dissimilar in color and size to that of a plane, had an odd, square-shapedness about them. I have only seen 2 objects in my life that have made me scratch my head and I look up a lot. It should be noted that my previous sighting (which I did report to NUFORC with the date of 8/15/02) overlapped with this sighting at the location of Graham St./Delaware St. Meaning th at the object we witnessed last night passed over nearly the EXACT airspace of my only other previous sighting of a shiny spherical UFO.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144374). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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