I was driving home on state route 749 from state route 52 in new richmond towards bethel ohio at approximately 7:30 p.M. so it was dark outside at the time. i saw a very bright light open the sky through my windshield it immediately caught my attention because it is a very dark road at night and i'm familiar with the area so i know for a fact there are no towers or spotlights around. i stopped driving to look at what appeared to be a very bright round spot light. it was hard to tell the size of the object if i had to guess it would be the size of a large car or possibly a small airplane but was of course not in airplane. it was maybe between 500 feet to a mile up in the sky from the ground. it did not appear to be moving as i watched it for only about 10 seconds before and without warning the object shot straight up leaving behind it a light trail. i had my window down but heard no noise come from it. i pulled my car over to the side of the road to see if it would return or if there were more than one object . i was parked for about 5 minutes and watched the sky carefully but saw nothing else out of the ordinary. where i started the object is close to my home in bethel ohio and over the past year as i come outside to smoke cigarettes worship by a campfire i look up into the night sky and see many unexplainable lights and objects. some of them could be drones war planes with very strange lights on them but others are completely unexplainable and i'm not the only one to witness them my family and neighbors has also seen them. although this was the first time i have seen an object like this