Drove up to St. Louis with a boyfriend after hearing about the ghost train for years. Stopped at the town bar for directions~they knew exactly why we were there. Went out to a field in the middle of nowhere. There were train tracks and saw a very distant light, but we weren’t sure if it was what people had talked about. We sat quietly looking around for a couple of hours when all the door lock’s popped up (this car did not have automatic locks). He got out of the car and heard what he thought was someone crying. We were both very nervous by this point. We both then saw a ball of light, about the size of a basketball floating though a grove of trees to our right. It was slowly snaking its way though the grove and its light was bright enough to cast light onto the surrounding leaves and branches. We watched it for about 15 minutes-it got very close to the car, close enough we could see its reflection on the hood of the car. We were both very scared, it was very late at night, in the pitch black, in the middle of nowhere with a huge orb coming toward us. We decided that if it got any closer we would drive away. It started slowly moving back through the trees-moving up above the branches and then back toward the ground far enough until we could no longer see it. I have never seen anything move or look like that before or since. We drove home very freaked out and tried to come up with a logical explanation-and never came up with anything.