Cone over Lone Oak, TN

The report, as filed

My girlfriend and I were driving from a date in Atlanta a couple years ago. Apple maps told me there was a traffic jam blocking the interstate from Chattanooga to Nashville, so we decided to take the highways home. I was driving on highway 8 toward McMinnville at 11:30pm when a blinking cone of light appeared across the night sky on my left. The light was huge, spanning miles in length. It was probably 5,000-10,000 feet up in the air as it was a semi-cloudy night and it was below the clouds but way above the trees. The cone of light was not that wide but extremely bright and aimed forward in the sky, not at the ground but straight forward. I woke up my girlfriend who had been sleeping at that point and she also sees this strange blinking cone of light that seems to be approaching us. The blinking was on for 2 seconds and off for 2 seconds. As we passed the craft, both of us got a good look at what it was. We were expecting to see some kind of airplane or radio tower but what we see is something else entirely. It appears to me as an all black bike horn, with the cone of light being emitted from the cone of the horn. My girlfriend described it as a "hanging lamp." It passed us going no faster than 100mph. One thing about it that we both agreed on was that the craft was very large, larger than an airplane. It was about the size of 4 airplanes. We did not turn around to follow it, as it was going the opposite direction. It was going in the direction of its headlight, and had no visible wings or means of propulsion.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173569). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.