The house I shared with my ex looked over the cascade range and had a full, unhindered view of six volcanoes - Ranier, St Helens, Adams, Hood, Jefferson & South Sister.
From our back porch, a buddy and I watched a light zip north along the foothills, covering ~16 miles in ten seconds.
It didn't slow down, but made an abrupt right turn, heading east, rising up over the Cascades and then disappeared.
My mentor in the early 90's resolutely believed in extra-terrestrial life. I asked him why, and he said one hovered over him when he was a teenager in Ashtabula, Ohio. The man was a rock, and it was something he accepted as an irrefutable fact.