I can relate. When I DO say tell things like the events mentioned above, I always worry that A) People will think I'm a nut job; B) they won't take the Raiders book seriously because I wrote things that no one else says and hey, I say that all these things happen, but all these things go against the standard, 150 plus year old version of events, so how reliable can my scholarship be, especially given the fact that I am a "cross-gender" writer? When I finally told the publisher I was a woman, he wanted to put my actual name, even if it was just my initial and last name on the cover, because he worried that people might be "angry" when Gary showed up for talks wearing a bra and skirt (among other things!), but since it's an open secret, it's never been an issue (and my scholarship is rock solid and obsessively documented, so good luck to anyone who wants to challenge it), and C) they might think I was making it up to draw attention for the book.
But to quote a former US president "It is what it is." If someone asks directly about paranormal experience, I will tell the truth, which is what happened in this thread, but how much I tell is in direct proportion to how well I know you and how much I trust you.
But I'm still not telling on the Tuttle Dove. The person responsible for that kept it to themself, and I'm not sure that they'd want it to come out. I've only ever told one person who it was and how the dots all connect.
As far as your UFO goes, that sounds way scarier than my experiences! Closest I came to a UFO was driving down the road one summer night, I saw a ball of light streaking up the sky, then four streaks of light shot out of it and it disappeared. One the news the next day they announced that it was some kind of rocket launch on Cape Cod - not a typical place for rockets, but apparently a lot of people had been phoning it into the news stations.