NUFORC Sighting 34598

Occurred: 2004-01-21 06:35 Local
Reported: 2004-01-21 11:18 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds


Location: Kaiserslautern/Mainz (on autobahn) (Germany), , Germany

Shape: Flash


Light flash turning early morning darkness into daylight

On 21 Jan 04, at about 0635, while traveling east on Autobahn A 63 (from Kaiserslautern to Mainz), a large light flash occurred. It started as a low intensity flash and suddenly became brighter. It lit up the early morning darkness like daylight. The high intensity light appeared bluish, similar to that of light emitted from a halogen car headlight or lamp. The light was witnessed by persons from Kaiserslautern to Wiesbaden to Koln (Cologne), Germany. The total incident lasted no more than two seconds. A friend related German media had reported the light was caused by a meteor reentering the earth's atmosphere however, I don't know if that's been verified at this time.



NUFORC Note:

Many other reports in the press of this event shortly after it had occurred. PD


Posted 2004-01-22

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