Finally, I got caught up with all the new posts. This is why I initially posted:

Originally Posted by
Gatene
Yes, I am an atheist, but I will entertain just about any notion as long as it does not require belief or death to be proven. Also, abduction stories or UFO sighting stories aren't up my alley, because they cannot be proven to me.
Check out my signature at the bottom of my posts. I realize, pmb, that you said you don't tell the story often, and I do understand why it could be a burden to have it. Because you cannot share it and not suffer ridicule or people telling you why it couldn't have been a UFO. I get it, but read my quote above again. This is a forum that has atheism written all over it, and a lot of atheists - as I am fully aware of, much more than I wanted to ever know - are just as bitter and nasty as a lot of theists.
Despite my initial post, I did enjoy the story. I'm a writer, so I enjoy a lot of hearing/reading things like that. But, like some of the others say, there could be - and most likely is - an explanation. From your account alone I can't really think of anything. The first thing I thought of was that maybe it was those new halogen lights, and only one headlight was working, but then I remembered this was in 1980 (the year I was born, just as an anecdote). Then I started to think about just a normal headlight (I wasn't there, so I don't know how bright it was, or if it could have been a headlight). Maybe they were doing something shady and reversed as you were going forward, and when the light disappeared, they were so far away that just in the nick of time, they turned off the light, and drove into the woods or something. Once again, I wasn't there, so I do not know if that scenario was possible. If you want to continue the story, then please private message me, because I fear how the following posts would sound.
Just remember on this forum, most of us will tear something like that down, dissect it, get to the juicy bits, and analyze the hell out of it. It's what we do.