NUFORC Sighting 50656

Occurred: 1995-01-01 03:00 Local
Reported: 2006-05-21 21:43 Pacific
Duration: 1 min or less
No of observers: 1

Location: Kansas (Eastern), KS, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

A beam of rotating light in eastern Kansas

I don't remember the actual dates. I was working as a conductor on a north/south frieght train in eastern Kansas.

One of our locomotives had suddenly died and I went back to try to restart it. While looking out the window I saw a bright white beam of light shining down into a farmers field about a hundred yards to the east of our north bound train. It reminded me of a police helicopter's search light that I'd seen in the city except that it was rotating (spinning).

I couldn't see where the light was coming from because of the window awning on the locomotive so I stepped out on the trailing end of the locomotive to get a better look. The beam had disappeared and something shot across the night sky like a shooting star.

The whole thing only lasted seconds.

I restarted the engine and it ran perfect the rest of the trip. The engineer never saw the light and thought I was crazy.

Posted 2006-07-16