Size of Object(s)

the size of taillights seen from ten car lengths away

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

unknown

Shape of Object(s)

roughly circular

Color of Object(s):

dark red

Full Description & Details

On the evening of March 21, while driving on State Road 37 in Indiana, I saw three dark red, seemingly anomalous lights in the western sky. The night was clear. The lights appeared three times, briefly, over a period of fifteen minutes, starting at 8:35 PM. The first sighting lasted three seconds. The other two were even shorter. These durations are estimates, as are all sizes, distances, and positions in this report. I say this now rather than qualify every other sentence with the word "about" or "approximately."

When I first saw the lights, I was driving north, five miles south of the point at which highways 37 and 13 merge. The lights shone directly to my left, slightly above eye level. They were imperfect circles, hazy at their rims, and the size of taillights seen from ten car lengths away. The distance between them was equal to their diameters. The lights didn't form a line or any obvious geometric figure. The northernmost was half its diameter lower than the second, which was 3/8 its diameter higher than the third. My window was down a few inches, but I heard nothing beyond the lapping wind and the hum of tires on asphalt. I don't know how fast the lights were moving. I'm not sure they were moving at all. When they disappeared, they did so quickly, but not instantly. They faded away rather than blinked out.

I wondered about the lights, but I guessed that they were atop some newly built structure, or that I'd glimpsed an airplane from an odd angle, perhaps while it maneuvered in a way that made its running lights vanish from my view. These possibilities seemed less likely after the lights appeared and disappeared twice more.

When I saw the lights the second time, I was going northeast, still on 37, a mile from its intersection with SP Street in the southeast corner of Elwood, Indiana. The lights lagged slightly behind their previous position relative to me. I had to lean forward and look over my shoulder to clearly

see them. The third and last sighting happened when I was past Elwood, a mile northeast of the 37/28 intersection. The lights were again directly to my left.

I'd driven through Elwood on 37 at night many times before the twenty-first, and I've done it several times since, but I saw the lights only that night. I was interested to learn from UFO Evidence that two people saw something similar while traveling the same route two weeks earlier. Their sightings began northeast of Elwood, at roughly the place mine ended. I'm not at all sure there's no prosaic explanation for what I saw. For whatever it's worth, though, I wanted to get the incident on record.

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