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This sighting is from about 1979 or 1980 roughly. I was about 7 years old at the time. It happened in rural southern Indiana about 50 miles south of Indianapolis.
I was in the bathtub I recall when my sister and parents starting making a fuss about this thing in the field across from the house. They were in the garage looking at it. I remember getting out of tub putting on underwear and going to the garage to see what they were talking about. I remember the thing was so close and so big that I backed back into the garage a bit when I initially stepped in the doorway because I was embarrassed about just being in my underwear and I could be seen from this thing lol. Anyway, it was hovering over a cornfield that was bordered by trees and I recall it taking up an area maybe 3/4 of a football field and I recall it being about tree top level so maybe 75 ft from ground… The field that the object was hovering over was maybe 250 ft away from where we were seeing it. It made no noticable noise. It started to slowly move to the south and my dad was curious and followed it in his truck. He came back a while later and said he followed it maybe 5 miles and was able to easily keep up with it and then it just bolted and disappeared at once.
I don’t remember specifics like windows or lights unfortunately. The most vivid memory of it was it’s size and how close it was to us. I don’t recall details on time and date, but I know it was dark, likely around 10pm or so and it was warm enough weather that I could be out in just underwear. Our home was about 10 miles from a nearby town and our nearest neighbor was about a half mile away. Not sure if anyone else saw this or not.