It was night and we couldn’t see the shape but it had a row of lights. We were aged 16, 17 and 19. And not given to odd fantasies. The thing hovered, zipped a distance, hovered again, then disappeared. I’ve never seen anything fly that fast.
You are basically describing the same thing my dad and brothers described they saw. It seems to me this was all happening before the sun set. Be interesting if there was a way to pull up any accounts of it in the papers in Montgomery at the time. When did this happen to you and your friends—60’s, 70’s?