1999-09-04 - Indianapolis, IN - Cylinder

I saw a smoky gray cylinder with blue vertical stripes dividing the cylinder into thirds. I have no idea of the altitude, since I don't know the actual size, but when I held my fist at arm,s length there was still a full inch showing on both sides of my hand. The object traveled slowly from west to east directly over my home.

At 08:40 I was leaving home for work as a federal security officer. I looked into the sky to check out the "contrails". There were absolutely no clouds in the sky, and only a few contrails. Just below the contrails I noted a smoky gray cylinder floating through the sky from west to east. It appeared to be about the same size as a 747 would appear at about 5,000 feet. It proceeded to fly directly over my home. I noted also that it was divided into thirds by blue vertical lines. As it went behind a tree in the yard, there was a flash of some type of energy in the middle third of the cylinder. I then stepped to the other side of the tree to try to pick it up as it came out the other side, but it never came out. The size of this object The object protruded about on inch when compared to my closed fist held at arms length. There was no tail or wings and no noise of any kind. There was also no wind that might have moved any noise away from me. I tried to convince myself that this was just a jet liner, but I watch jets in the sky frequently and have never seen anything like this before. I tried to blow it off but the next night objects of similar description were reported by Mr. Davenport on Coast to Coast. I wish someone else had seen it and reported. But according to the data on your sight, they have not. There was something very strange. The image almost seemed to be computer animation and the flash of "energy" in the middle section looked just like a cartoon drawing of an explosion.