Watch the light.

Ah, well I remember it. It was a clear summer night - or maybe spring, or winter, or fall perhaps. I don't remember now, but it was a clear night for sure. We, a friend and myself, were heading out late at night to watch a comet (either Hyakutaki or Hale-Bopp). We were heading south on highway 85, in Silicon Valley, in my '84 VW Rabbit (silver, four-door, 1.7 liter, 5-speed, dark blue interior, AC) - I was driving. The two front windows were down (I always put the widnows down, even in cold weather (but not in the rain)). Traffic - what traffic there was late at night - was flowing nicely, and my friend and myself were engaged in a deep conversation on some topic that I don't recall. Suddenly and without warning, a bright white-ish light appeared in the heavens, high above the surrounding hills and scenery, and it proceeded to proceed from right to left across the sky.

"Big deal," some might say, "a meteorite (or shooting star)." But those people would be answering prematurely, for there is more startling informatin to be revealed. As this light moved across the sky, it did not move in the smooth, straight line of a regular shooting star (or meteorite). Nay, rather, it zig-zagged up and down as it moved across the sky - most un-meteorite-like. After it had moved across the sky a ways (zig-zagging), the light disappeared.
Immediately upon its disappearence I turned to my right and looked at my friend in wonder, wondering if he had seen it, and indeed if I had really seen what I saw - so awe-struck was I. I discovered that he was staring at me, awe-struck also. We asked each other if we had really seen it, and indeed we had. I have never seen anything like it before or since, and to this day I do not know what it was, and I make no claims for what it was or was not. But I do tell you most certainly that it did not move like any shooting star or meteorite I have ever seen or heard of.

Anyway, that's it, my UFO story. As far as I know there was no missing time, and no long-term effects, just a sighting of something from a distance.

Keep looking up.
bIsh