There were five of us at the lake that night.
We were sitting near the water, talking, when a bright white light appeared above the tree line on the opposite side. At first we thought it was a drone or maybe someone with a strong flashlight.
Then it rose straight upward.
It stopped in the sky and stayed completely still. No blinking. No sound. No movement. Just a bright, steady light hanging there.
One of my friends started recording, but his phone screen froze. Another friend tried to call someone, and his signal disappeared. We laughed at first because it felt like a movie, but nobody was laughing after the light split into three smaller lights.
They moved in different directions and disappeared one by one.
The weirdest part is that none of our phones saved anything from that moment. The video file was corrupted, and the photos were black.
All five of us saw it. None of us talk about it much anymore.