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I will never be able to explain why I said this, but what came out of my mouth was: “Oh, it was just a flock of geese! I guess we are going to have bad weather because the geese are flying South early this year!” I laughed as I shoved it under the rug. My husband looked at me like I was an idiot. “Geese”, he said sarcastically, “do not fly South in August. And anyway, we are South!” Hearing a logical refutation had a strange effect on me: I became very upset and confused all out of proportion to the event. The only thing I could think of to do was to go inside and call Frank. Frank’s enthusiasm was not to be dampened. He had an ace to play. He had just gotten home a short time before I called and there was a message on his answering machine that he wanted me to hear. He rewound it and played it for me over the phone. Another friend had called him to describe having seen the exact same thing an hour earlier! He had been out in his driveway at 10 o'clock to see a few meteors and was also overflown by the big black boomerang, with his neighbor as a witness. Frank asked: if it was a secret government aircraft, why was it cruising our neighborhood so repetitiously, and why was it that he happened to know two of the very people to whom it had “shown” itself? Well, that didn’t seem like a great mystery to me. No doubt many people had seen it. Nevertheless, there were certainly questions that were not being answered by my logic no matter how I tried to explain things away. At this point, I became so upset that I had to go in my bedroom and sit and consider the matter. It was clear to me that if I could not find a rational explanation for this thing, there was only one thing to think: either they were real, or I had contracted the “Millennial Disease” and was losing my mind. This was certainly not a stealth bomber. The newspaper article had described them pretty thoroughly when the previous flap had occurred several months earlier. The writer had assumed that when people say they are seeing a “boomerang” shaped object, that they are really saying a “triangular” object. The description of the stealth bombers included a fuselage that the object we had seen simply did not have. It 79 High Strangeness — Part One Frank was absolutely ecstatic, crowing with delight. “Finally you’ll believe me! You saw a real UFO!” “Now look, Frank! Just because something is a UFO doesn’t mean it’s an ALIEN UFO!” had been a boomerang shape. Not a triangle, not a diamond, a