When i was in my early teens, I took an interest in the unexplained. Cyptozoology, Paranormal research, and UFos- primarily alien abduction phenomenon. I read the books of whitley strieber and bud hopkins, but having never seen anything even remotely unusual in my life was never completely convinced.

During my summer vacation from school ( between the ages of 13 and 16, at least 12 years ago) we often took trips to my aunt's house in New Baltimore, Michigan. It wasnt too lengthy drive from our semi rural home on the outskirts of St. Clair. After a long day in the pool, My family (Mother, father, younger brother and myself) piled into the family car to return home. It was well after dark, possibly close to midnight. We took I-94 North, and back then the land near I-94 between new baltimore and st clair was actually quite rural in most places. There werent any other cars on the road with us and it was relatively isolated. As i gazed out the window to the right from the back seat, I noticed a BRIGHT WHITE RECTANGLE of light poised directly over a large farmhouse less than a 1/4 of a mile from the expressway, slightly ahead of us. I didnt say anything at first, but decided my parents needed to see this, so i exclaimed "hey, what is that???" Everyone looked and there was a brief moment of confused silence as the thing continued to hover motionless over the house, while my brother and mother looked to my father for an answer.
"It's probably a helicopter" he said, but his eyes never really went back to the road and i could tell he had no clue what the hell it was. Remembering all i had read about abduction, an invisible wave of pure fear washed over my body. To our collective horror, the thing then moved steadily towards our vehicle without changing altitude, at a rather rapid speed. As it approached our vehicle, which i had noticed was accelerating rapidly itself, it progress with unnatural speed into an upward arc directly over our car, and continued upward and in less than a few seconds, it had shrunk and disappeared into the night sky.

The entire time, it always retained its properties as a bright white diamond when it was over the farmhouse, when it was coming towards the car, and as it arced upwards into the sky super ultra fast. There was never any sort of noise, even as it was closest to our car, no change in color and shape and nothing that would suggest a source for the bright white diamond light which it entirely consisted of.

During the ride home, there was a great deal of debate. My father remained calm but my mother and my brother along with myself were quite disturbed. He suggested it was a jet, a helicopter, (selfridge ANG base wasnt very far away) jupiter and any number of things. Nobody bought it, i think my brother was crying by then, and after we arrived home and my brother finally went to sleep, my father admitted he had no clue wtf it was and had only said those things to calm him.

The experience left me with an almost paralyzing fear when i was in rural areas at night, and i never slept comfortably again in that house on the fringe of town. It had convinced me of the existence of UFOs, and the books i had read on abduction seemed more real. All in all, the experience scared the hell outta me, and i hope it never happens again.

Wow . . . that's some experience, witnessing an Unidentified Flying Object at such a close range! Although I've never seen a UFO, being from a rural area myself, I often hear of strange sightings.

I don't blame you for being frightened. I'd be pretty scared myself if I saw that! I'm wondering about the people in the farm house it was hovering over. I wonder if they saw it, or if anyone from that house had been abducted.

Yes, that was a concern i have about it also. It was clearly positioned directly over the darkened farmhouse and the image was quite menacing. I also wonder if it's hasty departure was triggered by my family's awareness of its presence.

It very well could have been. Maybe whomever was in that house was spared because of it.

Wow, what a scary experience.

what if they already abducted the person, and were forced to flee?
i kno, its a stretch...