Anderson, Indiana: Perseid photographer sees two strobing lights turn sharply, falls ill

At 2:15 a.m., Rupert Pring was several miles outside Anderson, Indiana, taking time-exposure photographs of the Perseid meteor shower when he noticed a distant strobing light far to the south, soon joined by a second; both moved northeast in a straight line, as bright as a halogen car headlight at 50 feet. They stopped briefly twice near the star Eta Tauri and then turned sharply to the southeast. When Pring got out of his car for a better view he froze abruptly, “like something heavy was pushing down on my head and shoulders,” and afterward had nausea for three days and a temporary, day-long memory loss; he later said that he and his wife had an abduction experience with missing time that morning. His 8-minute time exposure appeared to show the lights' path, but Mark Rodeghier concluded that the photographed lights were most likely two mercury-vapor lamps at a farmhouse, picked up because the shutter was left open while the camera was removed from the tripod. 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.