Your UFO story is so real, so utterly believable, and such fun. You remind me of my first sighting in 1947, about two months before Kenneth Arnold’s paradigm shifting report. Just weeks before my 10th birthday I was thrilled out of my mind at the wonderful object flying near over the highway and recognizing our presence with a FAST and dramatic right angle turn just over our car. I was quite like your husband in my enthusiasm, unlike my Mom frantically searching for prosaic answers and my upset Dad confronted. by a mystery and frustrated by Mother’s illogical ramblings.
We have shared the reality of the “other”. I’m in good company.
Incidentally, my sighting was also in East Texas.