2001-03-22 - Orlando & Daytona, FL - Triangle

I4 Eastbound between Orlando/Daytona. Triangular craft hovered with car for aprox 10min, then moved forward, up & dissapeared fast

We were driving from Orlando to Daytona on I4 East-bound. I would say it was approximately 00:30-01:00 hours. I was in the backseat of the car, staring at the skyline as we drove home. My best friend was in the back with me, but she was sleeping soundly. There are lots of tree's to the sides of I4, so I had my face kind of plastered against the window so that I could look at the stars. The night was very clear.

The driver had his eyes on the road, but his friend in the passenger seat was fiddling with a CD. I remember he put it in and it was some music from The Phantom of the Opera, so I glanced at them for a few seconds and went back to looking out of the window.

I noticed something different in the distance and started paying close attention. There were three very bright lights hovering above us, they were not stars because they were moving in unison with us. They started getting bigger and MUCH closer.

I didn't want to look away, I was sort of in awe and wondering what the heck I was looking at. I ran through all of the things it could be... a jet, a military plane... hmmm, but it hovered down even more so and now I could see it was a triangular object and since it was now so close the middle of it looked pitch black, you could only tell it was triangular because of the lights--they were close the the edges of this massive aircraft, and because it was so dark it looked like there was a triangular whole in the sky -- (for lack of a better description) There was NO sound.

As we drove the thing hovered along with us for a good ten minutes. The guy in the passenger seat was watching it too but neither of us really said anything at first. I think we were both kind of shocked and silently curious.

I couldn't tell you how high up this thing was. The gap between it and the tree's wasn't huge to the eyesight, but the angle was a little strange so I have no way to measure. It was definitely high up, but it still looked SO LARGE.

Finally, it moved away by going up, slightly forward and then in a flash it was gone.

The friend and I both spoke then, wondering if the driver had seen it. We were glad that the both of us had watched it so carefully and talked about it only for a few minutes afterward, but our reports were identical. We knew then we had definitely seen something that was not normal. We were silent the rest of the way.

I told my brother when I got home. I was only 20 at the time and thought everyone would think I was crazy, well, everyone except for my brother. He thought I should report it and see if anyone else did, but I felt weird about doing so. I found this website a while back and thought about report it several times, but because it was so long ago I didn't think it would matter now.

I can't give you any background information on the guy in the passenger seat. He was a friend of the driver and I had only met him twice before and very briefly. I know he was a serious kind of guy, but that is about it.

At the time, I was a florist and wedding planner. Since then I have been very interested in UFO's and I keep my eyes open all of the time, but sadly I have not seen anything strange since. I wish I would have had a camera.

None of us had been drinking at all. The car was not affected at all. There was no interference with the engine or CD player as I have seen in dozens of specials and read on reports.