While You Were Sleeping …

by Marshall Dunn

In case you missed it, a string of interesting occurrences in Colorado probably tops the plot lines of at least half a dozen television shows (especially this season). It started just after midnight of 18 November, when a fast moving fireball “turned night into day” over Colorado and Utah. Even though the object was visible in at least 8 states, I remained unimpressed. After all, turning night into day is such an overused gimmick. Turning day into night is a much better trick. Plus, it had already been a big month for objects in the skies. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091118-triple-asteroids-fireballs.html

Early the next morning, a strange, electric-blue and glowing swirl of clouds was observed over Colorado. Initially unidentified and not immediately connected to the previous night’s event, the two events were finally correlated. This made me wonder why it took so long: not only for scientists to make the obvious connection, and why it took so long for the asteroid debris to clear. Still, I’m no astrophysicist and I don’t even play one on television, but as a writer, I found myself anxiously awaiting the proverbial other shoe to drop. http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=20&month=11&year=2009

A little more than a week later, a size 14 space boot hit the floor in the form of one of the oldest of UFO related mysteries: cattle mutilations. While I won’t go into my own personal theory on cattle mutilations (let’s just say it involves teen-aged, alien pranksters and their version of “cow tipping”), the coincidence of occurrence (and location) does provide food for thought and imagination. More than last night’s episode of “Heroes” at the very least. And these days, we take what we can get in that department. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/282837