I am generally rather skeptical of such things, even today, but still I don’t doubt you at all. Too many very solid people, some I have known personally, have had similar experiences. And of course my own.
I’d love to see something more exciting, like you did, but then what do you do with it? You can muse over it the rest of your life but realize you’ll probably never come to any conclusions or get verification for it.
But it’s still fascinating to have the experience and to hope for others.
Unless you’re crazy enough to go public with it, about all you can do is file it away for future mulling.
As for your lights, the wife, while still in high school, had a similar experience. She lived near an small, general aviation airport. fairly late one night, there was a bright light that she first thought was a landing light coming through her bedroom window.
Second thought was the police helicopter’s searchlight, because it was casting a moving circle of light on the ground...but it was silent. The bright light went out, and 2 sets of vertical lights came into view, like it had turned, with an indistinguishable dark shape joining them together.
The lights were blinking in sequence down, then back up, then down again, repeating rapidly: red-pink-white-pink-white-pink-red... . She called the airport, before the bright light went out, and they said there was nothing in the air anywhere in the area.
It just suddenly vanished, also.