It was the summer of 1966, about 7 PM on an August evening, when three of us were riding motorcycles on Mississippi highway 432 three miles west of Pickens, Mississippi. We spotted an orange light in the sky and pulled over on the shoulder of the road to watch it. It came pretty close to us. Probably within 300 yards. It was silent and could stop motionless in the air.It was glowing with an orange color, and shaped like a Greyhound buss, and several times a search light came on pointed toward the ground. It stayed in the area for several hours, flying off to the norht once but returned. It also at one time flew straight up, almost out of sight, but returned. Most of this time it was hovering two or three hundred feet above the ground about a quater mile south of us over a wooded area intermittently turning on and off a spot lignt. I was a teenager with strict parents and a specific time to be back home, so I left the other two still watching it.