Shreveport, Louisiana: Astronomy class sees orange light turn back, blue lights split up
On a night in spring 1967, Centenary College instructor John O. Williams and his astronomy class in Shreveport, Louisiana, watched a silent orange light make a tight 180° turn, followed by a blue thread of light that broke into seven or eight lights.
Background
At night, Centenary College instructor John O. Williams took his astronomy class to an open field on the Shreveport, Louisiana, campus to observe the sky; Eberhart dates the entry only to spring 1967. They saw a bright orange light due west at an elevation of about 30°, approaching at about 1° per second and remaining silent even as it passed above them, while a second, much fainter blue light followed it and then turned away to the south. The orange light continued eastward, made a tight 180° turn, returned to their zenith, then accelerated west and disappeared from view. After about 20 minutes it disappeared, followed by a thread of rippling blue light that broke into seven or eight individual blue lights, which exited in several directions. Williams described the sighting in IUR in 1997–1998. 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.