Not to be an idiot or anything, but I’ve seen strange stuff in the sky. Stuff I couldn’t account for. Three times in particular because of how obvious they were.
What to make of it? I guess, judging by my response, nothing.
With the recent proliferation of balloons or balloon-like things being spotted in the sky, it has me wondering about my “sightings.”
I watch the sky a lot, always have. Night and day. I was an amateur astronomer of sorts, owning a small telescope and a pair of binoculars I still have.
So when something happens that intrudes upon what is already known, it’s a little disconcerting. You feel you need to explain what you saw to yourself, but a chunk of your brain doesn’t like it because it doesn’t fit.
This past couple of weeks make me realize that there’s a lot of stuff flying around up there. Yes, I already knew that, but it’s different when you feel you’ve seen evidence of it.
Two of my three sightings can be rationally explained if I apply the filter of the last ten days or so. But one event remains a mystery, and it sure wasn’t any weather balloon or any other kind of balloon. In fact, it wasn’t an “it” at all, rather more like a “they.”
No matter.
Recent events have had me thinking about these phenomena. It remains as one of those fundamental mysteries about extra-terrestrials and whether or not they exist.
I have no earthly explanation for what I saw that night less than a year ago from my front porch. But I don’t want to make the leap to aliens, because that would be too weird, and what would they be doing, like, there?
Somehow, finding a human explanation would be comfortable. In the meantime, I guess I’ll just do what I’ve always done, and file it in the back of my mind.
NEWSMAGRENFREW 