Cross over Crawfordsville, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Took pictures of the illuminated sky over Crawfordsville, Indiana from the South on county road S 700 W near Alamo, Indiana. While reviewing pictures I noticed lights in the clouds forming a pyramid, at first I thought they were stars but the low dense cloud cover would have made it impossible for stars to shine though the cloud cover. I then noticed almost at the tree line a cubed craft with wings forming a cross with some kind of atmospheric disturbance behind it. The craft in question would have been traveling South to North. A total of 12 craft were in the immediate vicinity with eleven of them appearing as orbs in the night time sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172449). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-21 → 2022-09-07
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