At about 2 P.M. I was just past the Los Angeles county line near Sycamore Canyon camping area and a state beach named Sycamore Cove.
I was alone on the highway, there were no cars ahead of me or behind me, which is not unusual for this time of year on this stretch of the highway.
I have driven this route at least a thousand times.

It was a clear sky day typical of SoCal and I was enjoying the drive along the Pacific Ocean and the view to the horizon.
As I came around a curve and up a small rise where the roadway is probably 60 to 70 feet above the surf line my eye caught movement out on my left side.
(A short video on the right sidebar shows where this actually took place)

Turning my head to the left,I realized I was no longer alone.
Beside me, above the surf line, traveling at or close to my speed of 55 to 60 mph in the same direction was an aerial craft.
It was no further than 80 feet away.
The craft was just slightly lower than my eye level.
I had a very good view of it's top surface, and being slightly ahead of me,I could clearly see the back of the craft.
Because it came up so quickly beside me I didn’t see the front of the craft.
It had moved in to this position from off the ocean.
It paced along with me for 250 feet or more and 15 to 20 seconds in time.
The first thing I thought when I saw the craft was that it looked like a black manta ray.
It had a "stinger(spike)" out of the rear.
After a year of searching the Internet, I found out that there was actually a black project called "Black Manta".
The craft in the image below that I saw was not a lifting body, it just floated or "sailed" through the air.
A better description of the shape of the craft would be something more reminiscence of a horseshoe crab.

This is a view of the model that I made that shows the rear of the craft and the "stinger(spike)" protruding from the rear.
The real craft was I estimate 35 to 40 feet in diameter.
The "stinger(spike)" was protuding out about 6 feet from the body of the craft.You can also see the "cut out" in the rear and the three "ridges" on the top.
The center "ridge" was higher and wider than the two outboard ones. It is only a model of the craft I saw that day!

I estimate the craft was 6 feet in height at the middle point of the craft.
This view shows the shape of the craft and again a view of the "stinger(It is correctly called a spike)" protruding out of the rear of the craft.
I did not have a view of the bottom of the craft , so I am only guessing, it was convex and smooth.
It didn't appear to me to be flying but "more like "slipping" through the atmosphere.
Out on the horizon about 2 miles out I could see 2 F-16 jets escorting the craft.

The F-16 chase/escorts were definitely flying slow.
The two pilots were doing everything they had been trained to do when flying at almost stall speed.
The nose on both planes were pointed up as they attempted to fly as slow as possible without falling out of the sky.
Just like the F-16 viewed below is flying.
This is a side view of the craft.
I saw it from a slightly higher view because it was beside me on the surf line and a little bit lower than the roadway.

As we started to descend down off the grade,to the roadway that is closer to the beach, the craft suddenly accelerated and took off straight down the coast, following the contour of the coast .
It reminded me of a Star Trek movie when they’re going into warp drive.
The two jets took off too, chasing after it.
No conventionally powered craft that exists today can move this quickly.
I accelerated as fast as the minivan would go, down the highway, around the curves through the area called Mugu rock and still didn't see it, though at this time, I had a clear view of N.A.S. Point Mugu.
I kept going until I had a unobstructed view of the fields in the area and I didn't see the planes or this craft.

I believe what I saw was a piloted, man made craft. It had some exotic unknown type of advanced propulsion.
It was, I believe, by its handling characteristics, an anti-gravity vehicle.
I "felt" no sound wave,there was no electrical disruption of my vehicle.
I had the window down and heard nothing but the wind and my tires on the roadway. It was totally silent.
I believe that day,it was piloted by some hot jet jockey who saw somebody driving down the road, totally alone, and decided to say, "Look at me. Now,try to explain this to others,and see if they believe you, when you tell them what you saw”.
I have been doing just that, ever since that day.
Maybe,just maybe,someday, the truth will come out. I know what I saw that day. These craft are out there,somewhere.
And they are man made.
A week later just a short distance south of my encounter, this craft was photographed!

Saucer-shaped craft hovering off the coast of Santa Monica on January 3, 2004.
Photo by Young Chyren, courtesy UFOEvidence.org