Illuminati-R-Us

So I was looking out the window to see if there was still any danger of electrical storms, as they've been going on to the east of here all afternoon. Then I notice a strange green light moving about off in the distance between the trees! At first I thought it was a meteor, but it didn't move in a straight line. Rather, it repeatedly swooped down and looped back up.

I ran into the other room to grab a pair of binoculars and a diffraction grating. I thought maybe someone was playing with a green laser pointer, although the motion seemed a bit too smooth to be guided by a human hand. In any case, that theory was disproven when I put the diffraction grating up to the eyepiece of the binoculars: this light was emitting a band spectrum, not a single wavelength like a laser does.

As I strained to glimpse the appearance of this fast moving object in the dark, I was able to vaguely make out that the light itself was elongated vertically, and that it was part of a myserious dark shape - maybe a cylinder tilted at an angle, or possibly even triangular! Slowly, as I watched it, it dawned on me what this object really is. I know exactly what is shaped like that, what moves in that fashion...

A kite. Someone decided they wanted to fly a kite in the wind, and since it was night time they attached one of those chemiluminescent glow sticks in order to be able to see it. :P

That was riveting. I was on the edge of my seat when, about 3/4 of the way through I thought "there won't be an answer, this will end with questions". Wasn't it a pleasant surprise to find out that, not only is the world safe but you resolved the mystery too.

Good story!!!

Thank you for sharing that with us.

Lance wrote:Good story!!!

Why thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

Thank you for sharing that with us.

I'm always happy to share these things. :)

But I think-- wait, I mean... I know the real question is, "Why would anyone fly a kite at night?" Surely it must go deeper. There must be something sinister about this night-time kite-flying. We must find out the truth here.

And by "find out" I mean make irrational and unfounded claims about... anything.

:D Flying kites at night is fun! When it's cloudy, because when it's clear, I drag out the scope and annoy the neighbors by asking them to shut off their flood light for the night.

Anyway, I'm the definition of insominac, and I mean at 2 am nothing's on TV and only the aussies are online, so I find other stuff to do. Like draw Albert Einstein. Or update my website. Or do homework. Or, yes, fly a kite. I made mine out of a white garbage bag, so as long at there's a little moon light, I don't need any glow in the dark assistance.

So? Who wants to have me declaired a governmental paid hoaxer and hang me over at GLP?!

--hipster

Obviously a distraction, if you had looked behind you, you would have seen a black helicopter.

Unfortunately, the windows only face north and west... there aren't any that face opposite where the [strike]kite[/strike] UFO was. :(

Which is exactly why the black helicopter was on that side in the first place...

You mean to say, Cl1mh4224rd. That you're not supose to fly kites at night?? Then what should I do when my date tells me to go fly a kite at 2:AM?? :D

Attach a glow stick to it. :D