Goodyear Blimp Over South Bend

The Goodyear Blimp is in town for this weekend's Notre Dame football game.

I remember one night, as a young child living in Lafayette, I saw flashing lights in the sky above our neighborhood. I thought for sure it was a UFO so I ran in and told my parents, as did other kids in the neighborhood.

Everyone came out into the middle of our street, looking up at these strange lights on this nearly invisible space craft, wondering who was going to be the first person abducted by the aliens. Then, the space craft took a sudden turn and we could read "Go Purdue" written in the flashing lights.

That was my first encounter with the Goodyear blimp.