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Three Huntington officers wonder: What was that in the sky?
Tuesday January 06, 2004

(Huntington-Indiana-AP) -- A strange object that drifted through the northeastern Indiana skies has left police in Huntington baffled.

Officer Chip Olinger was warming up his car December 26th when he reported seeing a circular object in the sky. He radioed officers Greg Hedrick and Randy Hoover, who also saw it.

All three say they watched the object move out of the northwest, drift toward a church steeple, then shoot straight back north without a sound. The encounter happened at about 2:30 p-m and lasted less than a minute.

The trio describe the object as about the size of a hot air balloon or a backyard trampoline. They say it was low enough in the sky that Olinger thought it might crash into the steeple.