The 1968 UFO never showed up, although I waited from 10:00
to 11:30 when it was time to help Mom fix dinner. Sadly no aliens zoomed in to pick me up.
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Oh, sure. BUT the
next week a dull green fighter jet zipped over my house, clipping the leaves from
the top of the maple tree near the house (on the north side!). I saw it, heard it, and felt the sound.
This had never
before happened: a fighter jet in our own skies, from an air base two hundred
miles south of St. Louis. The pilot
rotated, dipped over the nearby creek, and disappeared. What was he chasing??
The same girl who had shared the last headline from the National
Enquirer sneaked another copy of this respected newspaper, on which the
header said “UFOs Seen over Corn Fields”.
We all gasped, knowing darn well that each of us had waited at 10 AM
last week, on the north side of our houses.
Were we getting a second chance? Were the Aliens giving us second look-over
before making their decisions? What next?
What next?
The fighter jet sure made things all the more believable as those aliens could have been looking for a fight
ReplyDeleteExactly! "Swamp Gas", indeed?
Deleteclose encounters the sequel?
ReplyDeleteI loved that movie! But beaming up of a different purpose.
DeleteI knew there was more to the story! And more yet.....
ReplyDeleteI recently came across a newspaper article I clipped in the fifties about an unusual cloud of strontium 90 over my part of Ohio, probably drifted in from a Soviet test. (Paraphrasing the article). I saved it back then so if I died of strontium 90 poisoning, everyone would know why! I think I was thirteen or fourteen.
We teens were so wishful and vulnerable then...
DeleteAnd, yes. More to come, and come...
DeleteOr did people think that fighter jet was a UFO?
ReplyDeleteI don't know...the Army denied any knowledge of such.
DeleteSo...back out there the next day waiting for the UFO???
ReplyDeleteEver hopeful.
DeleteWhat next indeed? You are the mistress of the cliff-hanger.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to tune in on Monday for the next episode.
DeleteCan't wait to find out! :0)
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the adventure! Monday is another chapter.
DeleteHow exciting!
ReplyDeleteWhat next indeed. Were there any mysterious absences/disappearances from your town that year?
ReplyDeleteI just moved away from a Navy town. There was a runway about a mile from my house where the pilots did touch and goes, training for landing on aircraft carriers and such. They would buzz over our house so loudly the windows would rattle. The locals called it "the sound of freedom." So anyway, your descriptions are dead on. Eager to read more!
ReplyDeleteIt's those little details that'll get ya (standing on the north side), lol!! Totally takes me back to being a young girl. :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you are still with us. Imaging being in the UFO ad no WIFI. What will happen to your blog:)
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