Headed home one evening and reached my exit off interstate. very dark clouds were just coming over my road at exit. one small ray several miles away of sun brole thru part of the storm cloud and at a sharp angle as the sun wasn't far from setting. i got about half a mile down the road i was headed and as i started to go down a hill, i could see a beam of light breaking thru the purpleish or dark blue storm clouds. it appeared to be about half the size of a football field. it cut a perfect circle thru the clouds and in the beam there were glowing gold colored objects going up thru the beam thru the clouds. at the same time there were rusty looking objects going back down to the ground. i lived 4.5 miles down this road and watched the for most of that time. i was actually going to go over to where it was to take a closer look. the beam was very bright to start as were the colors inside of it but as i got closer to the road to turn to go to it, it actually started to fade and by the time i turned to go to it (probably less than .5 m from it) the beam faded away. i couldn't pin point exactly where it was so gave up and went on home at that time. i'm not a scientist by no means but it look to be taking something out of the earth and putting something back. tried it the past to contact a few people in the ufo field about this with no success, but this is first time that i've took the time to write it out. i also know that i can't prove this but the info may intrest someone that has more knowledge in this field.