This is an email I just received from a friend of mine who is a truckdriver.

Howdy America,

What I am going to describe was seen by many of my fellow male and
female truckers, that deliver our nations freight 24/7 365 days a year.
I will try to paint a picture with my limited vocabulary, so you can I
can give you a mental picture of what I and many other truch drivers
saw, May 3, 2001, approximately 02:30 early Thursday morning.

Weather conditions, light wind, scattered clouds, no storms any where in
the geographical area, dark of the moon, the closest major city to the
north was Savannah, GA, over 100 miles away, Jacksonville, FL, close to

40 miles to the south.

I was heading north on interstate 95, at mile marker 19, just north
of the Florida state line. A couple of inches below my visor, directly
in my line of sight, due north in my direction of travel I saw the
following. A very intense blue light, as bright or brighter than
lightning; in the upper atmosphere, but in a point, meaning if you were
to hold out your arm straight out and hold up your thumb, your nail
would have covered up the blue light.

Obviously because of the distance
from where I was to the phenomena, the light was large, but very small
relative to the area of the sky within my line of sight. This blue
light lasted for only a fraction of a second, followed by an orange very
intense light. The size of the orange light was maybe 4 times bigger
than the blue light, but would still have been covered up by your thumb
nail. It was slightly off set from the blue light and was oblong, where
as the blue light appeared to be round.

It appeared to me to be behind
the blue light, in line, maybe connected for sure a result of the blue
light. The blue and orange lights slightly over lapped, appearing to
touch, but again the blue light flashed first and the orange light
behind, second. Both of these flashes of light took place in a second
of time, it was obvious this was in the outer atmosphere, and was not a
natural phenomena. Instantly following the larger orange light, the
entire atmosphere, covering the whole of the visible atmosphere, the
whole southeastern hemisphere flashed an un nature sun bright orange,
that lasted long enough to scan the horizon in all directions, north,
south, by looking in my side mirrors, east and west looking out of my
side windows.

I would say, just guessing, that the bright orange light
lasted 3 to 4 seconds, it extinguished gradually over a second or two,
not instantly as cutting off a light. The light was so bright it was
like day time in my truck and every where I looked, but a very strange
light, again very orange. The blue and orange small lights extinguished
the instant the sun bright orange light that lit up the whole
atmosphere, appeared.

This was all instantaneous it was obvious each
light was as a result of the blue light. I want to stress the
geographical area the illumination involved. If everyone in the
southeast would have been up, they would have seen it, the area involved
was staggering.

Speculation, the first thing that came to mind as a former United
States Marine, was a nuclear blast, I discounted that right away, but
have had second thoughts. This gives you the picture of how bright the
light was. My cb radio gets out around 10 miles, and of course hears
that far depending on the other drivers radio power. Truck traffic was
pretty heavy for that time of night and many of us began to speculate as
to what it was. It was not a meteor, after thinking about it a couple
of days, looking at it with logic, I think it was a test of SDI, but
don't know, obviously.

I wonder what could have blown up, to give off
that much light and the color of light, the sun bright orange light I
described above. Also the weapon used, that would produce the small
bright blue light and corresponding small very bright orange light of
the object, that appeared to be hit by the blue light, if in fact I am
right. This was not a ground to air light, meaning nothing blew up on
the ground to cause the phenomena, this took place in the atmosphere, it
was not a natural phenomena.

It would take a tremendous amount of
energy to light up such a large area. I have waited a couple of days
before writing this to see if it would be reported by the media, the
silence has been deafening.

Did any of you in the southeast happen to be up and see this event?
Have any of you heard about this? Please put this on any list you are
connected with.

James