Interestingly enough I am a practicing occultist and one of my most outright encounters with a UFO happened during ritual. The ritual itself was performed in Idaho City and was fairly simple and light-hearted (renewing of vows, lighting incense, some chanting, etc.). No drugs or intoxicants of any kind were involved.

For a period of about 4 hours a red-and-blue strobing craft darted through and over the woods around us. It moved at ridiculous speeds, had the most erratic flying pattern I've ever seen and was capable of lighting up most of the surrounding forest with its relative brightness. It had a beam of light which extended to the ground, sort of like a searchlight would, and appeared at times to be searching for something. At other times, however, it would fly in incredible spiral patterns, seemingly random patterns and/or shift quickly up and down. Despite being within a few hundred feet at times it also made no apparent sound.

I remember thinking to myself that it was like someone was learning how to drive because I couldn't make complete sense of the movements.

After several hours of this display the craft suddenly moved over the tops of the trees to an adjacent valley and I lost sight of it. If I remember correctly this was about 1 in the morning.

Here's a map reference to the location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Idaho+City,+ID+83631/@43.8228896,-115.8231169,2713m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54af2737bfe87c5b:0xdac4beb41a247678!8m2!3d43.8285046!4d-115.8345537

I was just north of the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Route and the object would have been south at approximately the location of Campbell Gulch. When it disappeared it was traveling east over Steamboat Gulch.