somewhat identified
somewhat identified
i was sitting in the back yard at night, having a beer. it was cold and clear. i looked into the sky. maybe i looked into the sky because i sensed it was there. maybe i just wanted to look at the stars. i saw the light right away, approaching from the south. it was brighter than anything i have ever seen in the sky and it’s altitude and speed did not match any plane i had ever seen. i estimated it was flying at 10,000 feet at about 600 miles an hour, headed north in a straight line. it arrived over the horizon and reached overhead in about one minute. it made no sound. the combined altitude and speed and the brightness of the object was like nothing i had ever seen. if the object was the size of the light it gave off, it was huge. then it did something: it zigzagged, like the lines you see on a heart monitor. abruptly right, then back to its original path, then abruptly left, so on. it zigzagged four times and then continued straight. to my knowledge, man has not invented a craft which can do what i saw. i don’t think a man inside such a moving craft could survive the forces of those maneuvers. it had a very calming effect on me. i was not excited or stunned. i was calm, as if a question had been answered and the answer was acceptable. i watched it move north. about four miles away, it turned west and flew off at at least 18,000 miles an hour. by “turned” i do not mean it followed an arc. it was going north and then it was going west instantaneously. it changed course by 90-degrees and blasted off. it was gone in less than a second. i base the 18,000 mile-an-hour speed on having seen the space shuttle flying at 6,000 miles-an-hour after entering the atmosphere. i don’t think it was one of ours and i suspect they knew they could be seen. before this encounter, i was pretty dubious about alien life and even wrote a story against their existence. now i believe. not with any fervency, but with a quiet knowledge that an advanced being revealed itself to me and there’s nothing i can do about it. i know a pilot who said he saw one stop in front of his plane. he said it was huge, about three football fields wide with lights. the next day the newspaper was filled with reports of sightings. i probably won’t read tomorrow’s paper. i have no need. i had seen something of quantum physics. maybe only i saw it, like they allowed themselves to be seen just to cheer me up. it definitely made me feel calmer, relieved, relaxed, blessed.
i was sitting in the back yard at night, having a beer. it was cold and clear. i looked into the sky. maybe i looked into the sky because i sensed it was there. maybe i just wanted to look at the stars. i saw the light right away, approaching from the south. it was brighter than anything i have ever seen in the sky and it’s altitude and speed did not match any plane i had ever seen. i estimated it was flying at 10,000 feet at about 600 miles an hour, headed north in a straight line. it arrived over the horizon and reached overhead in about one minute. it made no sound. the combined altitude and speed and the brightness of the object was like nothing i had ever seen. if the object was the size of the light it gave off, it was huge. then it did something: it zigzagged, like the lines you see on a heart monitor. abruptly right, then back to its original path, then abruptly left, so on. it zigzagged four times and then continued straight. to my knowledge, man has not invented a craft which can do what i saw. i don’t think a man inside such a moving craft could survive the forces of those maneuvers. it had a very calming effect on me. i was not excited or stunned. i was calm, as if a question had been answered and the answer was acceptable. i watched it move north. about four miles away, it turned west and flew off at at least 18,000 miles an hour. by “turned” i do not mean it followed an arc. it was going north and then it was going west instantaneously. it changed course by 90-degrees and blasted off. it was gone in less than a second. i base the 18,000 mile-an-hour speed on having seen the space shuttle flying at 6,000 miles-an-hour after entering the atmosphere. i don’t think it was one of ours and i suspect they knew they could be seen. before this encounter, i was pretty dubious about alien life and even wrote a story against their existence. now i believe. not with any fervency, but with a quiet knowledge that an advanced being revealed itself to me and there’s nothing i can do about it. i know a pilot who said he saw one stop in front of his plane. he said it was huge, about three football fields wide with lights. the next day the newspaper was filled with reports of sightings. i probably won’t read tomorrow’s paper. i have no need. i had seen something of quantum physics. maybe only i saw it, like they allowed themselves to be seen just to cheer me up. it definitely made me feel calmer, relieved, relaxed, blessed.
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