Pascagoula, MS, USA
04/94 · Pascagoula, MS, USA · 1 sources
Witness and his 13-year-old son were driving west on I-10 through Pascagoula, MS at night. An enormous pinpoint light beam shot up from the forest or swamps approximately 3 miles to the south. The light was extremely intense and solid, described as perhaps more like laser light than ordinary incandescent light. The beam was composed of at least 4 colors (red, purple, green, maybe yellow) in a spreading fan shape at a 45° angle upward, and the colors appeared to be rotating or changing places within the beam. It reached from the ground to thousands of feet in the air and lasted only a few seconds before blinking out. The area of origin was described as a remote wilderness or uninhabited forest extending at least 50 miles alongside I-10. The witness experienced an intense panic attack immediately following the sighting and accelerated his vehicle to leave the area.
- Shape
- Light beam — spreading fan at 45° upward
- Nature
- Unidentified light phenomenon
- Sound
- None
- Weather
- Clear
- Site
- Remote wilderness/uninhabited forest alongside I-10
- Size
- 2 hands side by side at arm's length (apparent size)
- Duration
- 0.083 min
- Time of day
- Night
- Local time
- 00:30~
- Theme
- physical_environmental_effects
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC:d4b8f860:127 fields
- city
- Pascagoula
- date
- 1994-04-01
- site
- Remote wilderness/uninhabited forest alongside I-10
- shape
- Light beam — spreading fan at 45° upward
- sound
- None
- state
- MS
- country
- USA
- weather
- Clear
- date_raw
- 04/94
- incident
- Witness and his 13-year-old son were driving west on I-10 through Pascagoula, MS at night. An enormous pinpoint light beam shot up from the forest or swamps approximately 3 miles to the south. The light was extremely intense and solid, described as perhaps more like laser light than ordinary incandescent light. The beam was composed of at least 4 colors (red, purple, green, maybe yellow) in a spreading fan shape at a 45° angle upward, and the colors appeared to be rotating or changing places within the beam. It reached from the ground to thousands of feet in the air and lasted only a few seconds before blinking out. The area of origin was described as a remote wilderness or uninhabited forest extending at least 50 miles alongside I-10. The witness experienced an intense panic attack immediately following the sighting and accelerated his vehicle to leave the area.
- svp_code
- ANI 304
- time_local
- 00:30~
- trajectory
- Ground to upward at 45° angle spread into sky
- case_source
- NIDS
- size_meters
- 2 hands side by side at arm's length (apparent size)
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- Suddenly an enormous pinpoint light beam shot up from the forest or swamps to his L(S) about 3 miles distant. The light was extremely intense and solid; not like ordinary incandescent light but perhaps more like laser light. It didn't fade or diffuse. 'It was absolutely the most brilliant light I've ever seen in my life.'
- catalog_entry
- NIDS-DOC:d4b8f860:1
- location_text
- MS-Pascagoula (driving W on I-10 through town)
- witness_count
- 2
- source_doc_sha
- d4b8f860aab6a20257c8d328190995cc76bf8db23d649dca327151c832e18a3e
- light_emissions
- Extremely intense, solid, multi-colored beam (red, purple, green, maybe yellow); colors appeared to rotate or change places within beam; not diffusing or fading
- witness_sex_age
- Ronnie Bell, male, age 47 (at time of report); son Justin Bell, male, age 13 at time of incident
- duration_minutes
- 0.083
- witness_reactions
- Witness experienced intense panic attack immediately following sighting; increased driving speed to leave the area
- witness_occupation
- Construction worker
- nature_of_phenomenon
- Unidentified light phenomenon
- NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC