The Parade Ground Light

The account is placed on a military parade ground during a briefing, with soldiers of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry present. The narrator describes a rushing noise and then an intense white light between the tree lines. He reports being briefly unconscious and then paralysed.

What follows is the part that separates this from a light in the sky. A bright object roughly the size of a melon is described coming down the parade ground in a rising and falling motion and striking Sergeant Santini, knocking him unconscious. Soldiers across more than one company are described as screaming.

What is on the record

One telling on one channel, five claimant entries including named soldiers and the unnamed narrator, and no documents. The grade is testimony.

The gaps in this file are severe and should be stated rather than worked around. There is no date in the record, not a year. There is no base named, and the location is held only as a military parade ground, which is why this case carries no usable coordinates. An event of this kind would generate a medical record and an incident report and a great many witnesses, given that it injured a serving sergeant in front of multiple companies. None of that is in the archive, and the file names five people out of what the account describes as hundreds present.

Why it sits where it does

L3 on five claimants to one connected event, through a single channel. The tier reflects the number of people named in the telling, not the strength of the record, which is unusually thin for the size of the claim. What came down that parade ground is not resolved here.