Wasn't near Barstow that night but I'm only a couple hours out in Nevada so I've been watching this thread since it popped up. We get a lot of weird stuff along that whole corridor and Route 58 has come up before in conversations I've had with other hunters in the area.
What colour were the lights exactly? That's always my first question because the amber/orange ones tend to get reported in clusters around the same stretch of highway and I'm wondering if theres a pattern building up. Last year I was out near the state line doing some fieldwork and caught something on camera that I still cant fully explain, similar kind of situation, low and slow moving lights that didn't behave like aircraft.
If anyone's got footage or even just a rough sketch of the formation please share it. Also curious whether any of you felt anything physical during or after, nausea, ringing in the ears, that kind of thing. Those details matter more than people realise when you're trying to build a proper picture of what happened.