As reported

Rectangle over Franklin, IN

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The report, as filed

My roommate and I were driving down 65 south toward the shelbyville exit 91. When my roommate said “Look, the sky is on fire.”. We kept driving and got off the highway and turned left on state road 43 toward Shelbyville IN. The objects disappeared once we were off the Highway but then returned. This went on for about 20 minutes of them appearing and disappearing coming back with larger proportions and often splitting from one object to two. We pulled over in a corn field to study the sky and then the object after appearing for the 4th time disappeared and never came back.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172886). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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