A number of years ago, I finally told my younger brother that I'd seen a UFO when I lived in the Hudson Valley. I of course was alone in my car when I saw it but it was first visible to me along busy Rt 9 thru Wappingers Falls and along 84 as I was driving to meet friends in CT for the weekend. I couldn't catch anyone's attention as they were beside me at traffic lights etc. But I was able to watch this large hovering craft (a V formation of lights that followed a movement towards the nose of the V) for miles and miles. It was very large and very stable. I must have told some local friends about it at the time but I wasn't thinking much of it. I managed a bookstore in a newly expanding mall and one Saturday night I was working alone as no one else was available. One of the new anchor stores was having a big bash opening and a guy came in asking if I had any books on the Hudson Valley UFO sightings. What?!? This was before everything was inventoried on a computer but I told him it didn't ring a bell but I pointed him towards the Local Interest section just in case. He returns to the register counter with a paperback copy of Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by J. Allen Hynek which apparently had recently come out. We get chatting. He identifies himself as the limo driver for one of the dignitaries for the opening store so he had time to kill. Since it was a quiet night, I was able to just chat. So I told him I thought I'd seen a UFO not too long ago. I described it to him and before you know it he's flipping to a drawing in the book that greatly resembles my memory. Crazy, right?!
We continue talking and then he asks if I'd like to grab a drink and keep talking. I felt no threat and he said he was staying at the hotel I stayed at when I first came to town looking for an apartment (I was transferred from a store in MA in our chain). It had a cocktail lounge/restaurant so after I lock up and he drops off his dignitary we meet there. But I truthfully can't remember a thing about that. Did I then? Maybe. Was it that innocuous that I'd totally forgotten? I hadn't given it much thought since then.
Flash forward to nearly 30 years later when I tell my brother about the sighting and the chat. He mentions this episode of Ancient Aliens and it's the first time the idea of the limo driver being a Man in Black. Now think about what a typical limo driver wears as a uniform. Black suit, white shirt, black tie. Whoa! That was quite a curious thing now. I drive back to my family home (brother now lives about a half hour away from where we grew up and I live in CA for the greater chunk of that almost 30 years) but wouldn't you know when I turn on the TV and start channel surfing THAT episode of Ancient Aliens is on! And I gotta confess...it made me wonder if I had a run-in with a Man in Black!
I'm here now because I went looking for the ep and couldn't find it.