A large bright light like the moon. But down in the woods.

Had a close encounter of the first kind was at age 15 on July 1, 1985. My family and I were at Wiseman's view near Brown Mountain Lights. All of my family members eccept my dad and I were at the view site. My dad and I went to the parking lot to get a few things and suddening a brilliantly bright light came in sight along with train whistle sounds. The light was white or sort of yellowish like the moon. The light reach from the top of the trees to the bottom at the ground. The one light came in from the right at the edge of the trees and went through the woods to the edge of the woods on the left side of the parking lot. After the light disappeared my dad and I ran back to the over look and started asking questions. There were scientists there along with others besides my family. We asked everyone if they had heard any train whistles or seen any unusual lights that were very large, no one had heard or seen anything. One of the scientists did tell us that the closest train there was had to be 40-50 miles away. In the woods when we walked down as we first got to wiseman's view had no evidence of any train tracks any where. We did see other lights at a distance that night but, not like this one.
One of four, seemingly serious-minded, reports from same witness.  Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact.  PD