There was another time I experienced something that truly felt like it wasn’t from this world. This happened about 17 years ago when I was working at Kohl’s in Middletown, NY. While working there, I met someone from town. We hit it off and decided to take a drive around after work. That’s pretty much what people did in our small town—there wasn’t much else to do. We ended up back near my job, sitting at a traffic light where we were about to make a left turn toward the Scranton exit and then...