Sellsword

This is a very interesting reply. Possible! I don't think I made it clear enough in my original post that ALL of us experienced the same thing at the same time (two others.) Anyone else have a hypothesis?

I was in upstate New York, a town called Amenia, driving on a road that runs on an open field. It was probably around 2-5 PM on October 25, 2009. (I remember the date because it also happened to be my birthday) Why do you ask?

Okay, so me and two friends were driving on an open road in the middle of the day. It was slightly overcast. All of a sudden, all I could see was white, and then suddenly red. It was white for a half second then red for another half second. We all looked at each other and were like, "Whoa." There was no thunder afterward. The strange thing is that it wasn't like a flash of light like someone setting the flash of their camera off in your eye, it was more like someone put a white sheet of paper in front of my eyes and then a red one. All of my friends agree with this statement. If it was something like ball lightning wouldn't it make our vision slightly blurry after such a close encounter? I've tried finding answers on other sites but unfortunately most of the people thought it was either aliens or a government experiment. Looking for some real answers here!