"Strange and Surreal Events in My Life, Late 1960's".

Back in late Summer 1968, I was out with a girlfriend in a causal relationship, more of friendship as opposed to a serious affair, and we pulled off the country road as she was telling me about her heartache and sadness due to a failing relationship with her male friend.  I was a good and sympathetic listener and as it started to darken near 9:00 PM, and with the top down in my "rough" 1964 XK-E, something incredible occurred.  As Vicki was in tears and very emotional and as I hugged and held her close in sympathy and support, suddenly about 75 feet above the car and just above a tree, we both saw this incredible and mind-boggling "thing" hovering.  It was not a solid craft, but more of an apparition and it was shaped like a huge gourd, as this thing was about the size of a small plane, dark gray with no sounds.  When we spotted this thing so close to us and as Vicki screamed and I was indeed afraid, very afraid of this unknown thing, we both later said that it was as if this thing had been there for a while and watching us and we sort of "caught" it looking.  I tried to start the car and nothing happened.  It was very,very scary.  After about 3 minutes of sheer fear, this "thing" sort of slowly moved up and away and did us no physical harm.  We then were able to speed away and we talked in her drive way for an hour trying to make sense of the strange encounter.  Shortly thereafter, I lost touch with Vicki and will never-ever forget that STRANGE encounter.  It was surreal, extraordinary and memorable.   This was just one of many-many strange events that occurred in my life in the late 1960's.  To be continued..... Capt. Rick Rotundo