Traveling from Brooklyn, N,Y to Groton, NY on I-80. My friend and I left out of New York City on New Years Eve. It was approximately 1:30 AM, New Years Day.
Traffic was light at this time on this particular stretch of interstate. and there were no other cars in our proximity. We were in a mountainous area, but I'm not sure what town we were near. I was the passenger and my friend was driving. As we rounded a large turn, we both observed 4 lights at the top of a mountain, situated in an arc which swept upward from left to right from the top of the ridge and up into the sky. The lights were stationary and resembled a constellation, yet these white lights shone brighter than usual stars and were evenly spaced apart at perhaps 100' intervals. As we approached NW on the Interstate, they would have been to the lefthand side of us.
Before either of us could remark to one another about what we were seeing, the lights began to snake down the side of the mountain toward us in a serpentine motion, one after the other. The lights were very bright, and lit up the trees near them as they moved down the slope. We thought it may have been a group of 4 snowmobiles racing one another. However, the fact is that when we first saw them, they were stationary in the sky. The lights also never stopped appearing to shine directly at us as they moved, unlike the lights on the front of a snowmobile or ATV which would have pointed in different directions as the vehicle traversed a trail. This was also a remote area, at approximately 1:30 AM on New Years Day, so a group of snowmobiles racing at top speed down a steep mountain was not a very likely scenario. This was the rational explanation which came to both of us after the sighting. However, we agreed that what we saw were absolutely not conventional vehicles in any way.
We were both quite stunned and perplexed by what we were witnessing, and by the time I said we should pull over, we rounded a bend and lost sight of the formation of lights. I remember that during my last glimpse before losing sight of them, the lights were still moving in that organized, serpentine motion and were close to the bottom of the mountainside.
It is one of my greatest regrets that I didn't have the wherewithal to demand my friend pull over and stop the car while they were in view. We were both taken too greatly by surprise to stop the car in time.
Traffic was light at this time on this particular stretch of interstate. and there were no other cars in our proximity. We were in a mountainous area, but I'm not sure what town we were near. I was the passenger and my friend was driving. As we rounded a large turn, we both observed 4 lights at the top of a mountain, situated in an arc which swept upward from left to right from the top of the ridge and up into the sky. The lights were stationary and resembled a constellation, yet these white lights shone brighter than usual stars and were evenly spaced apart at perhaps 100' intervals. As we approached NW on the Interstate, they would have been to the lefthand side of us.
Before either of us could remark to one another about what we were seeing, the lights began to snake down the side of the mountain toward us in a serpentine motion, one after the other. The lights were very bright, and lit up the trees near them as they moved down the slope. We thought it may have been a group of 4 snowmobiles racing one another. However, the fact is that when we first saw them, they were stationary in the sky. The lights also never stopped appearing to shine directly at us as they moved, unlike the lights on the front of a snowmobile or ATV which would have pointed in different directions as the vehicle traversed a trail. This was also a remote area, at approximately 1:30 AM on New Years Day, so a group of snowmobiles racing at top speed down a steep mountain was not a very likely scenario. This was the rational explanation which came to both of us after the sighting. However, we agreed that what we saw were absolutely not conventional vehicles in any way.
We were both quite stunned and perplexed by what we were witnessing, and by the time I said we should pull over, we rounded a bend and lost sight of the formation of lights. I remember that during my last glimpse before losing sight of them, the lights were still moving in that organized, serpentine motion and were close to the bottom of the mountainside.
It is one of my greatest regrets that I didn't have the wherewithal to demand my friend pull over and stop the car while they were in view. We were both taken too greatly by surprise to stop the car in time.
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I-80
USA
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20 seconds
formation
NY
Occurred : 1/1/2006 01:20 (Entered as : 01/01/06 1:20) Reported: 5/27/2019 11:27:45 PM 23:27 Posted: 6/7/2019 Location: I-80 (unknown city proximity), NY Shape: Formation Duration: 20 seconds
Traveling from Brooklyn, NY to Groton, NY on I-80. My friend and I left out of New York City on New Years Eve. It was approximately 1:3