Ridgecrest is near China Lake Naval Base division where the home of the sidewinder missle came from. The high tech gadgets come to China Lake for new development.
When you travel down these dark roads, 14 or the 395, you can see strings of orange lights in a line moving or in a semi circle moving. They seem to roam slowly across the desert skies, around and above mountains.
The scary thing is it's only you and the road, nothing else lives out there. You can only drive fast to get home along these roads during the night. If you don't drive fast, then you'd be in fright because the circles come above you.