In 1955, four people traveling by train spotted a glowing greenish-yellow light. One of them was US Senator Richard Russell, according to a document from a US intelligence agency describing the report.
The report is one of the more intriguing items in the fourth release of records by the US Department of War. The release included 40 records, among them historical documents and videos. Alongside the decades-old train report is a more recent recording made aboard a civilian aircraft. The cases are very different, but in both, witnesses described something they could not identify.
Two Points of Light Over the Train
The group also included a military officer and two government employees. A document analyzing the incident describes two points of light that rose straight up, then passed over the people watching them.
According to the account, the lights did not merely appear in the distance: they rose and passed over the group. The first document describes a greenish-yellow light; the second adds its path. Together, they leave us with a brief, strange image: two points rising, then passing over the train passengers.
A Short Video From a Civilian Aircraft
Another item in the release is a video from 2019, about 20 seconds long. It was recorded with a camera that detects differences in heat, so it does not necessarily show the world as a conventional camera would. The accompanying report says the phenomenon's movement differed from anything the observer had seen before.
The report was submitted to the US Navy, which forwarded it to a government office that investigates reports of unidentified phenomena. That description may lead viewers to expect unusual movement in the video, but the material provided does not say exactly what appears in it. What we have, then, is a short video and an unusual report about the phenomenon's movement.
What Remains Unknown
The documents do not identify the lights over the train or the phenomenon in the video. Nor do they explain why the records were released now; the material provided offers no conventional explanation that resolves either case.
Two points of light climb into the sky. A moment later, they are already above the people inside the train.
