My CRAZY Life: UFO?

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UFO

This story happened many years ago, 1973, I think. It was the month of June, I can’t recall the

exact date but I think is was quite close to the longest day. I was outside, in the back garden,

playing with my two dogs. It was quite late in the evening, around ten o’clock if I recall correctly,

but still fairly bright. As I threw the ball away from me for the umpteenth time, and my dogs raced

off to see who might retrieve it the first, a faint light close to the horizon suddenly caught my

attention.

At first I thought nothing more of it, I thought it was just that, a simple light, almost certainly from

an aircraft, but as it continued to grow in size I began to take it more seriously.

In less than a few short minutes, this small light had grown so large it was now a fiery streak

racing across the reddening sky. All sorts of thoughts raced through my mind like was it a UFO

invading the Earth, about to change our lives forever? I watched the unfolding spectacle in absolute

shocked silence. There was no one there with me apart from my two dogs, totally oblivious to this

monumental moment in time, tugging at the ball each one trying to secure it.

In less than five minutes this light had grown into a huge fireball streaking across the rapidly

reddening sky. Unable and, indeed, unwilling to take my eyes from the Unidentified Flying Object,

I studied this once in a lifetime experience with every bit of my undivided attention.

Although the object, this thing streaking across the evening sky, now seemed so close, not a

sound was to be heard from it. Apart from a lone blackbird singing in a nearby tree, it was so very

quiet. It was eerily quiet

A meteor

This UFO, for want of a beater word, was now at its closest point, directly in from of me, and the

colours contained within and without it were so unbelievable I pinched my arm, to convince myself

that I was actually awake. I could see every colour of the rainbow- and then some. These flaming

colours streaked far behind the fiery object almost to the horizon.

There was black too, a fiery, smoky blackness the likes of which I had never before seen, and

never since. Although this happened so very long ago I can still remember it so vividly, like it was

yesterday.

As it zoomed past in an eerie silence, I remember wishing I had a camera with me, to record it

forever, to prove that I really did see this strange phenomenon. But I didn’t because in those far off

days children didn’t own such luxury items. I suppose I could have run indoors, to try and find my

parents camera, but the UFO was moving so incredibly fast, I believed that by the time I had found

it, supposing there was film in it in the first place, it would have been long gone before I returned.

As the moment passed, and the fiery spectacle began streaking away from me, growing smaller

and smaller into the far distance, I felt honoured, privileged to have been a small part of the cosmic

spectacle - the cosmic achievement that I had just witnessed. Many years have passed since

then, so many years of worries, concerns and ‘events’ that we humans feel are so important, but

they are as nothing, compared to that June evening long ago…

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