Minneapolis, Minnesota: Ball of light explodes on pavement in front of a city bus
At 4:00 p.m. on August 30, 1979, during a thunderstorm, the driver and three passengers of a Metropolitan Transit Commission bus in Minneapolis, Minnesota, saw a yellow-green ball of light rush down in front of the bus and explode on the pavement.
Background
At 4:00 p.m., during a thunderstorm, three passengers and the driver of a Metropolitan Transit Commission bus on the southwest side of Minneapolis, Minnesota, watched a yellow and green ball of light about 2 feet across rush down from the north only 5 feet in front of the bus. It hit the pavement and erupted into a shower of sparks and smoke with a loud explosion. The shocked driver ran over the point of impact while the vehicle was shaking. No lasting traces were found in the pavement after the storm. The report was published as case 4-5-3 in the International UFO Reporter in November 1979. 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.