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A Crash and A Secret - CS Norwood 16 Jan 08 (1:00am)
Nothing exciting ever happens here in the U.K.
You're best watching the news for the exciting life.
Well, let's see about that.
My wife and I, Karen, were taking a romantic stroll down to
a secluded island within fifteen minutes walk from where we lived. Wigg
Island is a nice place for a walk,
hardly anybody goes there. Probably not that many couples in need of trying to
work on their marriage unlike us two at this time.
We left the house around 8:30pm
and it was still dark. We entered the bridge that crossed over to the Island
about 8:45pm and the sky was getting
very black. By that time our eyes had more than adjusted to the darkness and we
were ready for the trek around the Island.
By this time we started holding each others hands and
smiling at each other. That's a good start for a romantic walk to try and find
a spark in your relationship that's been missing for some time. We both knew
the walk would be at least an hour around the Island and
I'm sure that Karen had some of those extra thoughts about what could happen on
a particular walk like this. We both even took a little money with us so that
we could possibly drop into a pub on the way back home.
Some of the sights had passed within the first ten minutes
of the romantic time. We had started even to talk about certain problems that
each of us have between us within our marriage. We had reached the lookout
posts were during the daytime people would take they're binoculars and bird watch. We took a stop,
turned to each other and just looked into each others eyes.
As we looked up at the sky to locate were the North Star was
at that time we noticed another light that seemed to be falling.
I looked at Karen as she did exactly the same. We checked
again at the falling light and it was still there high in the atmosphere but
definitely moving downwards.
"Could be an omen." I
said.
"Weird seeing a shooting star." Karen was smiling as if she
was happy that an omen like this was meaning something.
"But..." I started.
Interrupting, Karen said, "Shouldn't it be shooting across
the sky instead of just falling?"
By this time the falling light was getting bigger and still
falling. There was now a definite dark and a light glow surrounding it.
"Yeah!" I said, trying quickly to figure out a reason why,
"it might have just hit the atmosphere at a funny angle."
"It's changed colour in the middle now."
The falling light had changed colour, it was now a dark,
even black in the middle with a smoky fiery glow surrounding it.
"Is it me, or does it look like its heading our way." My
voice had a slight worried tone to it.
The falling, now an object, was getting bigger, more a shape
and had both white and black smoke coming out of it. We both knew it wouldn't
be long now before it hit.
Karen was still watching it fall in amazement.
"Is it a bird," I said trying to be jovial, "is it a plane
or is it a U.F.O.?"
"Har har." Karen said looking at me with a half blank and
half worried look on her face.
Within the next five seconds the object showed a black
triangular shape with white clouds of smoke blowing from underneath it and the
black and grey smoke billowing out of the back of it. Well more billowing above
it. It slowed it's descent as it got to about three hundred feet above the ground
but still with the white smoke coming out from underneath it faster than ever
it made one hell of a thud as it hit the ground.
"Wow!" The both of us said that at exactly the same time. We
looked at each other in total amazement. In the distance the smoke was quieting
down. It was also nearly getting silent. The noise after the crash started off
being a loud hissing, fizzling sound but now it was disappearing into nothing.
"Should we have a look?" I asked.
"Uh?" Karen was staring in the direction of the crashed
thing, object, whatever it was. She then looked at me when she regained
herself.
"Why not?" She said with a grin on her face. Her body was
already making its way towards the direction of the crash.
As far as I could tell the crash site was only between one
hundred and two hundred yards away. With the smoke dying down the night time
darkness was taking back over the natural dark view in front of us.
"Come on," Karen said waving her hand beckoning me onward.
Trying to erase the thoughts of the films I had seen I
followed. Some of those films were horrifying, some were just weird, the rest
were actually pathetic, thinking about them.
We approached slowly towards the crashed ‘thing' with silent
caution. Karen was still in front. I was just following her without a proper
reason or thought going through my head.
What we saw was a black triangular shaped object which was
still billowing out but only now slightly, black smoke in parts and white smoke
in others. It must have been about twelve to thirteen feet across. I knew that
because of the length of our living room. There was a tiny flashing red light
on the top of it.
Suddenly a hiss sound came as quickly as it went. We both
just stared in shock. A lid or something opened. It looked like a black glass
window on the side that we were looking at. It was opening very slowly upwards.
"What we going to do?" Karen whispered. She now looked
scared. I was the one with the most fear I was sure but now just looking into
her face I could she that she didn't know what to do.
"Shhh!" An I pointed towards the ‘thing'.
As we looked the lid had finished opening and a hand like
thing grabbed the edge of the object. I could feel my heart pumping. Feeling
that I put my arm around Karen hoping that a little comfort would help. She did
the same. I could feel my heart racing and a lump in my throat. If this was
happening to me then sure it must be happening to Karen too.
Then as we watched the grey, black gloved hand lifted itself
up and we could both now see a head shaped object appear out of the ‘thing'.
Through all the fear I realised that the ‘thing' actually
looked like one of those stealth bombers the Americans use but very much
different. Especially when this one could slow its falling descent to earth
without crashing.
A whole body started to climb itself out of this craft. I
noticed that Karen had an ‘o' shaped on her mouth and realised I was doing the
same. At the same time we heard other noises getting closer. They sounded like
helicopters.
By the time the being climbed out of the craft there were
people surrounding the area with guns, the racket of helicopter blades were
drowning out every other noise. Three men in camouflage army uniforms had found
and picked us up off the floor and pointed in a direction were we should be
following another person.
The commotion lasted only about five minutes before the
helicopters were off again. Both Karen and I were put in the back of a car and
debriefed.
A test pilot had crash landed. Unfortunately we were there.
It was a top secret test flight. And we were not allowed to say anything to
anyone. All out details were taken and checked before we got dropped off at
home. It all happened so quickly it seemed only about ten minutes before we
walked through our front door.
"Wow, that was weird." Karen said.
"Yep, it's an idea for a short story too." With a smile on
my face.
Copyright 2008 Carl Norwood
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