'Little Light' Sighting - MUFON Case #92919
Thursday, June 21st, roughly 9:30 PM
Route 52, Greenfield Park, NY, headed from Ellenville toward Woodbourne
While driving on Route 52 at roughly 50 MPH I noticed something that seemed to be floating above the roadway ahead. I couldn't see it clearly because another car was tailgating very close but wouldn't pass, which is a common occurrence on this road. I pulled off into the parking lot of the Greenfield Park post office to let the car go by. As I was turning the car back toward the roadway I thought I saw the object in the streetlights. With the car window open I asked, "Is that you little light?" The object seemed to move further up the road. I pulled back onto the road and pursued it. It stayed ahead but not that far ahead. It may have been 100' to 300' away and moving along with my car. It was hard to tell the scale of the object. It appeared to be a little more than two feet across, roughly the size of a streetlight but it's hard to tell how large it is or exactly how far away. It looked like a metallic truncated cone shape with glowing blue lines running down its sides from the narrow end to the wider end. The metallic surfaces of the object reflected moonlight and streetlights near the firehouse and trailer sales office. Light began to come from the wider end, initially shining down on the road slightly off to the right of the lane I was in. The light was spreading in a wide cone shape and was slightly bluish. Then it started to rotate. The light moved upward then around as it rotated. It shined at me and flashed five times in my direction as it rotated (not turning on and off). As it faced away I could see the 'top' or the side that the light wasn't shining from. The center where the cone shape was truncated looked dark and the lines of blue light looked like 'EL Wires' radiating from it. They seemed to come out of the dark opening and go into a metallic-looking flange surrounding the wider end that was shining the light. When it had flashed at me five times it shut off its light and disappeared into the trees to the right of the road with only the 'wires' lit. During the sighting I could see the planets Venus and Mars (I think) with the moon between them off to the left so I definitely wasn't seeing the planet. About the time it disappeared a floodlight at the yeshiva ahead on the same side of the road came into view briefly through the trees.
Notes:
At roughly 6:30 that evening I was informed by email that a lady named [censored] who I had known but hadn't spoken with in years had died. She had lived in the area where the object disappeared when it was the 'Western Mohegan Reservation'. At the present time it is a yeshiva with a sign that says 'Yeshiva of Ocean.' It was formerly the Tamarack Lodge.
I've seen a similar light several times in the same area over the course of at least five years. At least twice there was a light that seemed to be hovering over my car and shining down on it while moving along at the same speed but I couldn't see the object directly, just the light shining onto and into my car. Each time this lasted less than a minute. Once it shined into my car from behind at an angle, creating double images with the moonlight which was also shining in from a similar direction. I couldn't see it clearly, only the light. This sighting took place in Dairyland, close to the Sullivan county line on the same read. Once I saw it shining down onto another car roughly half a mile ahead (there are long lines of sight on the road). The driver reacted by pulling off the road in a panic and got out of the car on the side of the road. It was an older mostly bald man in a gold car similar to a Ford Taurus. I stopped briefly but he didn't seem inclined to talk about it.