Event Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:31:00 GMT
City: Lafayette
Region: Indiana
Country: US
Shape: Cigar,Flash
Distance: Unknown
Entity Type: None
Description: I was heading south on Indiana SR 52, having just gone through the stoplight at CR300 and SR 52 intersect, several businesses are located to the east side of parallel with SR 52. When a brilliant blue flash horizontal to the ground appeared right over the road in front of me, lighting up the entire area with the intensity of a welder arc, but a magnitude of of a camera flash -almost plasma like. The flash lasted about 3 to 4 seconds and looked not unlike a flame often found painted on custom cars, the flame was estimated to be between 75 to a hundred yards in length, with a width of about 25 to 30 yards, it was traveling west to east, its appearance was instant and size was constant.
Weather conditions in the Lafayette IN area were extreme at the time, with high winds from the west, with sustained winds estimated at 25 to 35 mph, with gust up to 60 mph, a severe storm cell was going through with heavy rain blinding at times, but the worst of the storm was to the north of my location, being on the edge of the storm. The flash was estimated to be about 50 to 70 feet in elevation from the ground. There were multiple vehicles in and about the area heading in both directions on SR 52, with a van and a car directly under the area where the flash occurred.
I was not intimidated by the incident, but am concerned by it. As an avid outdoorsman having spent much time in the field have never seen an anomaly such as this. The object or flash disappeared as rapidly as it appeared.
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My Nephew and I were driving South on US 31 between Plymouth and Rochester Indiana on the evening of Wednesday Febuary 11th 2009 at around 9:30 pm we both saw a very large cigar shaped object in the Southern sky.
Huge and very bright.
It appeared to be comming from the East at a very rapid speed.
We saw it for maybe 5-10 seconds.
It was bright orange at the high end and several different shades of blue at the low end..very very bright.....to say the least it was beautiful.
Unlike a falling star that usually are more or less going in a horizonal streak and very high in the sky this was headed in a downward path and seemed very low in the sky.....it, or parts of it had to have hit the ground.
It happened so fast...we wish we could remember more about the event...all we thought about is how beautiful it was and the fact it wasn't a typical falling star.
If anything was in the streak there is no way it could have survived.
We did not feel threatened in any way and knew it was not a plane or man made object in trouble....as I think back I have no idea why we felt that way.
There were no other traffic on the highway in front or in back of us that we could see.
We feel priveliged to have been a witness to this celestrial beauty.
I guess our question is why hasn't it reported by more people?