Francis Ridge:

This incident, reported to the National UFO Reporting Center on April 4 (2006), is under investigation. There are two other major incidents involving trains in the historic record, both in Indiana: one near Indianapolis; the other near Evansville. See case below and file folder on other train incidents.

At exactly 2:47 a.m., while working a coal train enroute from Russell Kentucky to Shelbiana Kentucky, a locomotive trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as they struck an unknown floating or hovering object. The entire electrical systems on both locomotives "went haywire."