Tuesday, July 14, 2015


Evelyn's Close Encounter Story


About the landing: It's the northernmost edge of a long city park. At the time of landing, the stars no longer shine, nor are the clouds lit by bright city lights as they were an hour earlier. In the sky, the very pale night sky, about 2:00 High, a pale white moon is hanging low a good distance from the treetops. Those trees on the (your) left side, are a cluster of magnolias say very dark and lushly grown. There is a barely discernable sidewalk slicing down, like a small hour hand pointed to 8:00. Closer to the viewer is an ordinary concrete park bench with wooden "horizontal" slats of wood.  We were both standing once the saucer appeared on the grass, not half a block down the park the cluster of big magnolias are clustered and only the right side of it was clear of overhead branches. I was 17 and my sister was 23. She could stand an inch taller -- maybe wearing wedgies ("platform" shoes). I'd pointed the saucer out to her in the sky, watched the dark round circle descending overhead while she had gone ahead to sit on the bench. It was such a nice evening, she thought, we could wait outside the apartment building for our parents to come home from a late even shopping.  I'd seen it coming lower, but when I got to where she was sitting, I was aghast to see it already touched down, tucked under the trees. I figure either they'd shot me with a ray cause there seems a missing time which could have been more than a minute long...or either, I might have been able to watch the whole thing but had enough of my memory erased that the touch-down simply was erased from my brain. I may never know. This is the sister who died last November...The two girls will be maybe 1/2 a head top distance between their heights. The younger could be profile. Might show the eldest mostly full-face, eyes wide! They both have long dark hair -- that should help show they are (in fact, highly resembling) sisters. The taller sister could have her arm in front of the younger, in a guarding pose. A leg should be stepping backward. The saucer is over a double roads width from the bench, mostly tucked under the shadow of tree branches, tightly. You can see the green vaguely on the upper contours of the trees. The moon light is so bright... The saucer's dome is visible but not lit...I don't know offhand how to make that show well, but you are an artist, too, the point is, the moonlight was so bright, it was nearly light as day, you could think the green grass was lightly blanketed with ice or snow. Farthest left, there are two separate brick buildings with concrete archway entrances on either side of an alley (but parking spaces shouldn't be available to eyesight from this distance). The saucer is tri-legged, not too high; the vehicle's belly isn't flat on the round should be obvious There are similar trees on the far right side, looking smaller to indicate the wide grassy spread from the magnolia cluster .  The saucer was opening on the side under the trees. The whole thing was little more than half way into the cover of tree branches. It didn't gleam or glow but did look like aluminum and maybe the length of a school bus I will be interested in seeing this. Oh, we wore straight dark skirts a ways below the knees back then, and light short-sleeved sweaters that just pull down a few inches beneath, the natural clinch of the waist -- we also often wore corsets to pull the waist in, back then. Early 1950's fashion (Neither had big boobs).

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