Well if you're losing your mind, there's a whole queue of us ahead of you waiting for the same diagnosis! 😄
Seriously though, I've been poking around on urban legend forums for a few years now and Barstow keeps coming up more than you'd think for a place most people can't point to on a map. Something about that stretch of California desert seems to attract these reports like moths to a flame.
What did it look like exactly? I always ask because the details matter - there's a massive difference between ". Triangular and silent". And ". Spinning lights doing the hokey cokey at 30,000 feet." People who genuinely saw something tend to remember very specific little things, like the way it moved or a particular colour, whereas the ones who've convinced themselves they saw something tend to be a bit vaguer.
Not saying you're in either camp, mind you! I'm just a 70-odd year old fella in Birmingham who reads too much and sleeps too little, so I'm hardly the authority here.
What time was it? Any other witnesses nearby, even strangers? And had you been on the road long - only asking because fatigue does funny things to the eyes, as I know from personal experience driving back from Coventry on the M6 at midnight once. Thought I saw all sorts that night and it turned out to be a Tesco lorry with a dodgy rear light. 😂
But Barstow is different. That desert air and the lack of light pollution makes it one of those places where if anything unusual is passing through, someone's going to clock it. So tell us more!
