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Phoenix
experienced the lights again and this time they flashed. Sunday the
21st, At 8:21pm, into the first part of the X-files, an X-ploding
flash from the east demanded my attention. I was convinced it was
the indians next door setting off some type of peyote/tubercular vaccine
concoction around their sweatlodge fire, and I had the phone in hand
trying to get the wording right to give the police. It was a nuclear
bright flash that lit up the whole sliding glass door area, a neatly
framed 'splosion of retinal burning capabilities. I stepped outside
to hear the screaming and was instead frightened by the silence. We've
lived her for one year and never has a Sunday night been quiet there
as that's The Indians official day to hold their sweatlodge ceremony
that includes very audible drumming and chanting. Even the anti-social
couple across the way and on the second floor actually came outside
(they are masters at the polite "no neighbor" policy. I
envy them, and study them, greatly) and the husband came downstairs,
his phone in hand, and we compared notes. He saw a huge blue flash
that covered the eastern horizon, certainly not a small containmnet
just from one campfire. What to do? Forget it. We both said "Phoenix"
and shrugged. The Pope got home and said he'd seen a flash that came from "up" and that it was exceptionally bright and he didn't hear anything going along with it. No news annoucements interupted tv viewing so we dug into pizza and finished watching X-files. (please, wont you help put a tv show out of it's misery? last night was a somewhat better show than most of this season but come on....enough.) At Ten o'clock in this town as news whoring and hungry as the rest, where every flat tire and breast implant is subject to ridiculous and uneccessary coverage, not one word was mentioned. Nothing. We still don't know what it was but if we do you'll find the answer here. If YOU know what it was, tell us! Odd skies are nothing new for Phoenix...this much silence is. |
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