Columbia County, Arkansas: Physicist sees pulsating glow in woods near Haynesville

At 8:15 p.m. physics professor Louie A. Galloway III was driving with his family through a wooded area on US Highway 79 in southern Columbia County, Arkansas, 3.6 miles north of Haynesville, Louisiana, when they saw a bright, pulsating orange glow in the woods. It suddenly brightened to a blinding white light for 4 seconds, forcing Galloway to shield his eyes and waking his sleeping children, then returned to red-orange. Galloway reported to Project Blue Book, which forwarded the report to the University of Colorado UFO project; after he measured the distance in January 1967 at about 0.7 to 1.2 miles, the Colorado project estimated the burst of power at 500–1,400 MW. Galloway later located a clearing 30 feet across whose peripheral trees had blackened bark facing the center; bark fragments sent to a US atomic facility in 1978 were returned without findings, and in 2024 Jacques Vallée had samples analyzed by gamma-ray spectroscopy, which showed cesium-137, and estimated the power at 500–900 MW with several unknown variables. In 2025 Vallée and colleagues presented the analysis in a preprint for Progress in Aerospace Sciences, which Ovniologia reported as accepted. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.