Sitting beside me was a linebacker-sized shipmate who flew into my lap in the backseat. To say he was scared witless is an understatement.
My shipmates in front asked what in the *&## was wrong with him, and I squeaked, "That #@%^ light!!!!!!!!!!"
What light??! they asked, baffled. The man in my lap related what light for about an hour, gratefully scrambling out my lap, and loosening that bear-hug so I can write this today.
Years later I told this to my now-deceased neighbor who was in WWII, and worked on the B-29 that bombed Nagasaki, to which he repied, "You know, I've never told anyone myself, but in '44 I was station in Dennison, Texas, and one night the same thing happened to me." He saw an orange light fly by his car on a dark, lonely road himself--while his passenger slept. LOL!