Owls just seem to invite awesome (owlsome?) encounters.
A Barred Owl once clipped the roof of my car and broke its wing. A local Wildlife officer turned out at 1:00 in the morning to meet us and take it to a rehabilitation expert.
Barn Owls, Barred Owls and Screech owls are all frequent visitors to our house, probably because we have large populations of gray squirrels and cotton-tail rabbits. We have a narrow, dark driveway, bordered on one side by the house, and on the other by an equally narrow but dense stand of mixed and overgrown small trees, large shrubs, honeysuckle and bird-grape vines. On two different occasions, owls have swooped over my head so near that I felt the 'whoosh' of their wind of passage. And of course, they are so silent in their flight that I was completely startled. (Bet they were also!)