Related subject… I am in fairly rural MO. A couple of weeks ago as I was getting off the highway to drive back through the wooded roads that connect to my house I noticed a bright light overhead. It looked like a spotlight. As I turned off the high way and drive along the backroads I kept an eye on it. Eventually the spotlight went off, but there were still “nav” lights on the sides. What I thought was strange is that helicopters are LOUD, but I couldn’t hear anything. As I kept driving toward my house I eventually ended up directly beneath it. There was nobody behind me, so I came to a stop and opened the windows. Not only was it quiet, it was SILENT. I’ve heard many drones before - I even own one, but even drones make a pretty good racket with those four little high speed motors whirring away. I estimate it was only 100’ - 150’ in the air, but there was no moonlight to speak of, so I couldn’t even see a silhouette, just the lights. It was too close and too quiet to even be a drone. Besides, who would be flying a silent drone down this empty country road? I don’t have any answers, it was just weird. I’m glad my daughter was with me to corroborate my story.
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Story time (brief) Many years ago My wife, me and our new born son were moving. We were driving in a very remote area, no houses for many miles, no lights only forrest and the odd other vehicle. I saw up ahead what looked like a airport floodlight, thought great we can take a break. Rounded a corner on the highway and something came up from the treed. Silent. like maybe 150' to the front left. It moved at the same speed of the car as it appeared to stay the same distance from us as I pushed the gas to the floor freaking out. It had lights like flood lights going around the edge of it. It was round. Then while the wife was freaking out it zipped to over a hill that was miles away in a blink of an eye. Fastest thing I ever saw. It stayed there for a few minutes then it zipped back to the front right of us again. A very thin beam of white light started at the passenger seat (the wife was in the back seat with the baby screaming) the light very slowly started moving left and I scrunched up to the drivers door. It passed over me and I was blinded for a couple of seconds. If the road was not straight we would have been in the ditch. Anyway shortly after the beam of light it zipped up up up and was gone. I never saw anything move so fast.
We kept driving freaked out and 20 or 30 min later we were in a small town. I seriously couldnt drive at night without taking a panic attack. Even now I scan the sky when driving.
How much time elapsed from the time you got blinded by the white light and realizing the light was gone?
You mean the thin white beam of light? It was moving across the car seat at like 1.5 inches or so a second. It started on the far passenger side and moved toward me. I scrunched up against the door as it got to me. As to how long i was seeing spots and was night blind, it was not too long but long enough to almost drive in the ditch. The thing was still there in front of the car keeping the same distance/speed as the car for like a minute or so before zipping straight up up and gone. It was like 24 years or so ago so my memory on how long it was going on may have drifter but the details are just like it happened last night.