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THE FIRST UFO

 

 

 

THE FIRST FLYING SAUCER

                                                           

   

                                                

 

 

“HENRY WHAT’S THAT UP THERE?” 

 

“I DON’T KNOW, BUT IT SURE AIN’T NO AIRPLANE.”  

 

“WHAT YOU FOLKS LOOKEN AT?” 

 

“SEE THAT LIGHT UP THERE JUMPING AROUND.” 

 

“OH YEAH, NOW I SEE IT.  WHAT IS IT?” 

 

“LOOK OUT HENRY, GET OUT OF THE ROAD.  HERE COMES ANOTHER CAR.” 

 

“IT’S OK, HE’S STOPPING TOO.”   

 

“HAS THERE BEEN A WRECK?  WHY ARE ALL THESE CARS STOPPED HERE ON THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY?’ 

 

“NO, AIN’T NO WRECK, WE WAS JUST WATCHING THAT LIGHT UP THERE.” 

 

“HENRY, I’M SCARED.  I’M GETTING BACK IN THE CAR.” 

 

“ALRIGHT, HELEN, YOU GO GET IN THE CAR.  I’M STAYING OUT HERE WHERE I CAN SEE WHAT THAT THING IS DOING.” 

 

“I’M GOING TO CALL THE POLICE.  THEY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS.”

 

“AW, WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT?”

 

“I DON’T KNOW BUT THERE’S 18 CARS STOPPED HERE NOW AND THEY CAN AT LEAST DIRECT TRAFFIC.”

 

IN JUST A LITTLE WHILE EVERYONE HEARD THE SIREN ON THE POLICE CAR COMING FROM THE DIRECTION OF TOWN.  THEN THE POLICE CAR TOPPED THE LITTLE HILL HALF MILE AWAY AND THEY COULD SEE THE RED LIGHT FLASHING.

 

AS THE POLICE CAR SKIDDED TO A STOP, A TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN JUMPED OUT AND RAN UP TO THE CROWD STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY.

 

“WHERE’S THE WRECK?  IS ANYONE HURT?”

 

“AIN’T NO WRECK, OFFICER.”  “ JUST THAT MYSTERIOUS LIGHT UP THERE IN THE SKY.”

 

DAD AND ART DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO STOP THIS SHOW AND LAY LOW FOR AWHILE.

 

MAYBE I SHOULD START AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS STORY SO YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON.

 

IT WAS 1940 AND I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD.  MY FRIEND JUNIOR DEAN AND I WANTED A KITE.  OUR DAD’S HAD MADE US EACH A KITE AND WE WERE OUT IN FRONT OF JUNIOR’S HOUSE FLYING THEM.  DAD AND ART (JUNIOR’S DAD) WHERE SITTING ON THE DEAN’S FRONT PORCH WATCHING US.

 

“LOOKS LIKE THE BOYS ARE HAVING FUN WITH THOSE KITES WE MADE FOR THEM.” ART SAID.  “LOT’S OF PEOPLE THINK THERE IS NOTHING TO MAKING A KITE, BUT IF YOU DON’T MAKE EVERYTHING JUST RIGHT ABOUT IT, IT WON’T FLY RIGHT.” DAD SAID.  ‘YEAH I KNOW.  HOW BIG A KITE YOU EVER BUILD?” ART WANTED TO KNOW.  DAD TOLD HIM, “NOT VERY BIG I SUPPOSE, BUT IT WOULD BE THE SAME TO BUILD A BIG ONE AS A LITTLE ONE.”

 

IT WAS GETTING CLOSE TO SUNDOWN SO JUNIOR AND I WOUND IN OUR KITES AND PUT THEM AWAY.  ART AND DAD HAD GONE INSIDE AND WERE PLAYING DOMINOES WITH MOTHER AND MRS. DEAN WHEN JUNIOR AND I WENT INTO THE HOUSE.

 

DAD AND ART WERE STILL TALKING ABOUT BUILDING A REALLY BIG KITE.   DAD WAS SAYING IT SHOULD BE AT LEAST SIX FEET TALL.  WOW, I THOUGHT, THAT WOULD BE A REALLY BIG KITE.  I DON’T KNOW IF I COULD HOLD ONTO ONE THAT BIG.  IT MIGHT PULL ME RIGHT UP OFF THE GROUND.  JUNIOR AND I WENT ON INTO HIS ROOM TO PLAY, AS THE GROWN UPS PLAYED DOMINOES.

 

THAT NIGHT ART AND DAD DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A BIG KITE.  EVERY EVENING AFTER SUPPER FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK THEY WENT TO ART’S WORK SHOP AND WORKED ON THEIR KITE.  FINALLY ON FRIDAY EVENING THEY BROUGHT OUT THEIR KITE FOR A TEST FLIGHT.  IT WAS MAGNIFICENT.  IT WAS COVERED WITH BLACK PAPER AND HAD A TAIL 18 FEET LONG.  IT WAS 8 FEET TALL AND THE CROSS BAR WAS 6 FEET LONG.  THEY HAD 300 YARDS OF TROT LINE CORD TO FLY HER WITH.

 

BY THE TIME THEY GOT EVERYTHING READY FOR THE TEST FLIGHT IT WAS ALREADY SUN DOWN.  MOM ASKED THEM HOW THEY WERE GOING TO SEE THAT BLACK KITE UP THERE IN THE AIR AFTER DARK?  DAD AND ART HADN’T THOUGH OF THAT.  AS THEY STOOD THERE TALKING ABOUT THIS, JUNIOR RAN IN HIS HOUSE AND CAME BACK WITH A LITTLE 2 CELL FLASH LIGHT.  “WHY DON’T YOU TIE THIS TO THE TAIL AND THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE THE KITE IS.”  “SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.” SAYS MY DAD.  SO THEY TIED THE FLASH LIGHT TO THE END OF THE KITES TAIL AND TURNED IT ON.

 

IN JUST A LITTLE WHILE THEY HAD THE KITE UP IN THE AIR AND FLYING AT THE END OF 300 YARDS OF LINE.  THERE WAS NO MOON AND IT WAS A DARK NIGHT.  YOU COULDN’T SEE THE BLACK KITE BUT YOU COULD SEE THAT LITTLE FLASH LIGHT JUMPING AND WAVING AROUND UP THERE IN THE SKY.

 

THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND HAD THE KITE FLYING RIGHT OVER HIGHWAY 80, WHICH IN 1939 WAS ONLY A TWO LANE BLACKTOP INSTEAD OF AN INTERSTATE HIGHWAY.  THE LITTLE FLASH LIGHT WAS THE LIGHT IN THE SKY THAT STOPPED ALL THE TRAFFIC.

 

THE NEXT DAY, THE GLADEWATER NEWS PAPER HAD A BIG HEAD LINE ON THE FRONT PAGE.  “UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SEEN IN SKY OVER EAST TEXAS”  AFTER READING THAT STORY ART AND DAD DECIDED IT WOULD BE WISE TO TAKE THEIR KITE APART AND NEVER FLY IT AGAIN.

 

HOW EVER THAT WAS NOT THE END OF THAT KITE.  THE NEXT YEAR…….BUT THAT’S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 2000

 

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