Cross over South Bend, IN
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The report, as filed
I was having coffee on the notth porch with our cat. I heard a helicoptor and looked up for it but it went around behind our house so i could not see it, as i Was looking up i saw a craft very high and further north Moving extremely slow. From west to east. It looked like an Plus sign with 2 parallel bars going one way and just 1 going the other. The 3 bars were about the same length and had 3-D rectangular crossection. They were positioned. at about 45 degs to the direction of travel, they had a haze or aura i looked away to my cat for a split second, and when i looked back it was gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148138). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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