That may mean that you all saw the same thing; however you may all have made the same mistake.
I've read your account; it sounds very much like mundane aircraft flying in formation. Perhaps, like the Hudson Valley pilots, they were carrying...
Those looks like starlink race track flares. At dusk, your particularly likely to catch them. However, I can't remember if you see them to the east or west when the sun sets.
The time stamp you gave puts you just past astronomical twilight...
I'm open to debunking! I would say that the circumstances seemed almost contrived to make me a witness. As far as the appearance of the objects goes (in the first instance), others who apparently saw them later gave almost verbatim descriptions...
That's a mindset which makes it difficult for a person to listen objectively to alternative explanations. Be careful; don't fall into that trap. It's a shame you didn't take a picture, because although you may have looked to your own...
IOW we have a more or less permanent subpopulation who will troll anyone for lulz. As they get bored with one topic, they move on to whatever is 'trending' to entertain themselves, said mental engagement being their only real goal. The trick is...
Or if you were with the pilot and police officer a bit later near Roseburg and had a good look at them too! I saw them in broad daylight. You have to be open to all possibilities! That's where I slither… er fly, in :p. Ah, Science!
I detect...
If only we had a time machine! We could go back together and look at it again.
I think there would be two possible outcomes;
1/ it would not look quite the same as you remember it, and/or with your increased experience of atmospheric phenomena...
Aviator (and sailor) Sir Francis Chichester described seeing a "flying saucer" while flying from New Zealand to Australia over the Tasman Sea in 1931.
The main part of his sighting is described in his book The Lonely Sea and the Sky, 1964. (it's...
Lower tangent arc and 22 degree halo,
Lower tangent arc and subsun (over exposed)
Another really good lower tangent arc in the Alps
Wider lower tangent arc with Sun higher above horizon. Sun dog to our right.
Chichester's 1934...
It is real technology, although I don't think anyone is using it yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar-based_navigation
Pulsar navigation might be a vital technology when and if we ever start exploring the galaxy; but it seems like overkill...