Not losing your mind - similar reports have been coming out of the Midwest fairly consistently over the past 18 months or so. I've been tracking a cluster of these on my Flightradar24 alongside my own sky-watching logs and the pattern is genuinely interesting.
Few questions that'll help narrow this down:
Movement pattern - steady trajectory or erratic changes in direction?, Colour of the lights - amber, white, blue-white?, Duration - seconds or minutes?, Single object or formation?
The Ohio/Indiana corridor gets a surprising amount of unusual aerial activity that doesn't correlate with commercial flight paths. Some of it I can debunk fairly quickly (weather balloons, military exercises out of Wright-Patterson), but there's a residual percentage that genuinely doesn't fit any conventional explanation.
I'm up in Pendle so obviously I wasn't there to witness it, but I've got contacts in the MUFON network who cover that region. If you can give me rough coordinates and a timestamp I can cross-reference against their database and also check for any reported geomagnetic activity that night - some of these sightings correlate with elevated Kp index readings, which is its own fascinating rabbit hole.
Don't let anyone dismiss you just because it sounds unusual. That's exactly how we lose good witness testimony. Get your account written down in as much detail as possible now, before memory starts filling in gaps.
Would love to hear from anyone else in that area who saw something.