Fiction
Steve
once told a story of the time he saw a UFO as an entry in a paranormal
stories outlet that included both fiction, and stories that most people
claim really happened to them, but most casual observers would think
were fiction were they not regular fans of the outlet and so called true
believers.
But Steve did not tell the full
truth, he changed some of the details of the story to have more accuracy
and precision then they really did and added some parts that did not
happen to him and omitted others that did. Steve knew he was not
intellectually capable of telling the full truth of what he saw with
perfect memory and perfect measurements of space, light and time so he
embraced his weaknesses and created a myth.
He
took his real life sighting but made many changes so that those who
contemplated his story could better comprehend his main points. In the
past, he tried to tell the full truth to people but by including too
many petty details he only confused them more. He found that by trying
to tell the full truth the audience could understand a smaller
percentage of the truth then if he told them lies and half truths to
make the story simpler to understand.
Was Steve
a liar? In a sense, maybe, were he to tell his story, as a eye witness
in a court setting but instead Steve put it in a science fiction
contest so people would know that what he said was not true but
fiction. Of course calling it fiction was the lie because it really was
true except for all the details that he changed. Oh what a paradox
this was.
This was Steven's story.
There
was a ramp on a hill that alternated between going north and south as
it went east and downward toward the lakefront. There were also stairs
that went straight east and downward. At the bottom of the hill and the
stairs was a long wooden platform that ran north and south and east of
that platform was the sandy lakefront. About eight miles south of the
lakefront was a major airport.
Steve was
walking down the ramp toward the lakefront and then going back up the
stairs going west away from the lakefront for exercise very late in the
day but close enough that he should be able to complete his exercise
repetitions before park closing hours. Steve saw many planes passing
south to the airport at a high angle of altitude. At least one of them
shined a search light whose beam appeared to brighten the ground
immediately in front of Steve's feet for a moment. One of the times
when Steve went up towards the top of the stairs he felt unusually
dizzy, like he had vertigo or maybe low blood pressure and felt faint to
a much greater degree than normal when doing this exercise. He went
back down the hill after this and walked to the south side of the wooden
platform on the button of the hill. He was going to decide if he
should continue the exercise for many more repetitions or just go up
the stairs one last time then quit. Steve stared out toward the lake
East of him.
Suddenly Steve saw something
unusual. He saw what looked kind of like Amber, Dark Orange or Brown
airplane lights but at an incredibly low angle of altitude. They were
East of him and were moving west towards him alternating between moving
northwest and southwest while maintaining a low angle of altitude. He
could tell they were moving west toward him because they were getting
bigger. Underneath the lights the water seemed to move as if it were
pushed by a downward wind seeming to come from the light source itself,
that also appeared to push the water as though the wind was radiating
horizontally away from the light source. This was in addition to the
regular water waves you would normally expect at that lake which he
could see. He could see the water waves and water surface more clearly
close to him or close to the light source then far away from him and far
away from the light source.
These did not look
like normal airplane lights to Steve but Steve did not know much about
Airplanes he had a PhD in biophysics but airplanes are not alive so
although he was very knowledgeable in physics he hardly studied them at
all anymore than any normal person outside the field of aviation. The
reason they looked different than normal to Steve was their
configuration. There were two rows of lights and many columns of
lights. The lights were arranged vertically in pairs with one light
above and one below but horizontally there were many pairs of lights.
One could draw a vertical line of symmetry and also a horizontal line of
symmetry for which the light pattern would be symmetric.
After
about five minutes the light pattern was replaced with another light
pattern. It changed shapes like a split cookie being pulled apart and
then merged back together again. Although often each half of the
"cookie" looked more like a half of a yin yang symbol than like a half a
circle with a straight line divide. Yin Yang of course was not the
only shape but it is a good example of the types of shapes formed
because they were split but did not have jagged edges. Some of the
combinations where the object was in two halves could be divided
symmetrically with a vertical and or horizontal line unlike a Yin Yang
symbol but like a Ying Yang symbol still lacked jagged edges unlike a
broken cookie. Of course it is difficult to distinguish between two
seperate objects or one object because the separate objects were often
merging together to form a single object and the single object was often
separating into two different objects as a continuous process rather
than in separate and distinct stages.
The whole
object or two split halves of the object depending on if it was merged
or seperated was a mixture of red, orange and yellow and was completely
filled in with red, orange and yellow colors with no gap in the object
in which one of these colors was absent except the gap between the two
pieces if it was split instead of completely merged. This was unlike
the previous object or the previous version of the same object that had a
gap between every airplane like light.
The
object had multiple red, orange and yellow colors at the same time and
the colors of the object were not in a symmetrical pattern only the
object itself was symmetrical when it was symmetrical.
Sometimes
one part was on top of the other and the other below and sometimes one
part was to the left and the other to the right and sometimes it was
only one object instead of being split into two parts.
When
the two pieces were apart and horizontally separated the air in between
the pieces was the same color as the rest of the sky was to the left
and right or north and south of the object at the same angle of
altitude. When the two pieces were vertically separated the air in
between the pieces was the same color as the rest of the air at the same
angle of altitude.
This shape changing and
color scheme continued for about five more minutes then this object was
replaced by what looked like a full moon or perhaps the object was
replaced by a full moon. Once the object could be recognized as a moon
and was stable no longer changing shape the color scheme changed.
The
full moon had more of a off white or pale colors traditional moon color
scheme and a dimmer light intensity. Whereas the previous object had a
much brighter light intensity and a stronger, deeper, more intense
color scheme that was similar to sunset and sunrise red, orange and
yellow.
This full moon was at a very low angle
of altitude and was in the southwest portion of the sky to Steve's right
as he looked eastward. Since nothing further interesting occured and
it was just an unchanging moon Andrew walked up the stairs and down the
hill for 15 more minutes then decided to leave having achieved the
number of times going up the stairs he desired which was one more than
his previous number.
Before Andrew left he
looked at the moon and it was at a very high altitude and in the
Northwest part of the sky to his left when he faced East. This made no
sense, the moon could not have traveled as far a horizontal angle from
the Southwest to the Northwest in as little time as 15 minutes. The
moon also could not have traveled that far a vertical angle with such a
great change in angle of altitude in so little time as 15 minutes.
If
the angle of altitude consistently changed at that rate as a normal
event there would be multiple moon rises and moon sets every day, so
clearly this was not a normal event but something very strange had
happened.
If the horizontal angle regarding
north, east, south and west directions consistently changed at that rate
as a normal event one could stand in the same place and see the moon
horizontally go by you multiple times a day which also indicated that
this was not a normal event but something very strange had happened.
After
his last view of this odd moon position he decided to leave and walk
home. On Steve's way walking home he also saw many airplanes go by but
one was extremely unusual. Although this plane was very high in the sky
in the sense that it was too high to have to worry about it crashing
into buildings it might have been lower than usual because he could see
the bottom of the plane in more detail then he was used to. It looked
like a normal passenger plane that would fly civilians from one airport
to another for travel and not a military plane except for one peculiar
detail. On the bottom of the plane was an object which reflected dark
orange, brown or amber light off its surface that stuck down below the
main body of the plane and attached to that object was what looked like a
light projector.
Steve thought the merging and
unmerging broken cookie or yin yang symbol was probably projected by
this plane as an artificial light show or illusion. But then what of
the moon, was the moon itself a projected illusion created by humans
flying aircraft with projectors attached to them? It seemed to Steve
that this certainly would be the case but the moon was supposedly seen
before the first human ever invented an airplane or hot air balloon.
Was the history of the moon and or the date humans invented aircraft
then a lie in and of itself? Or was this a really clever prank to
project an illusion right around the time the moon comes up and show
people the projector to make people doubt the existence of the moon so
that observant people who are paying attention to their surroundings
seem crazy for noticing these things and the moon was indeed a real
object?
Or Steve wondered was this all in his
misunderstandings having studied the physics of living things too often
but having failed to observe the skies regularly being a Biophysicist
not a Astronomer or Meteorologist. Given that the object was very low
in altitude and the moon would rise from a low altitude did Steve just
happen to see some sort of normal human aircraft on a cloudy day only
for the aircraft to disappear because a rising moon is a brighter object
than that aircraft. And the rising moon appeared to change shape
because of moving clouds. Were the moon colors red shifted due to the
low altitude of the moon similar to how the sky turns red
shifted near sunset and sunrise but is blue shifted near noon due to the
different angle of altitude of the sun as a light source.
Steve
did not think so but was open to the possibility. Steve looked up the
time for the moon rise that day and found it was close to the time he
was walking up and down the stairs. But then how did the moon rise so
fast? Will that still did not make any sense but Steve decided to
temporarily ignore that and play devil's advocate. He looked up many
moonrise videos on the internet including those where clouds block part
of the moon.
Although the sunset and
sunrise-like red, orange and yellow color scheme seemed similar to the
moonrise videos, that was the only thing they could explain. Steve was
convinced that a moon rise with clouds when compared to the many videos
he watched could not explain the shape changing he saw nor the large
change in angle of elevation in such a short time. In fact, knowing the
moonrise time further created a problem with the moon being so high in
the sky so close to the time when it should still be rising and much
lower in angle of altitude.
Steve tried to
explain to people what he saw after this but he only confused them with
too many petty details by trying to tell the whole truth. He thought
this was important but he did not know what to do until there was the
story contest. At last, I do not have to confuse them with the truthful
petty details, because I could say I was not telling the truth, but a
fiction story, Steve thought to himself.
