Back Deck and away…
Colorado Rockies. 6,500' elevation. Early 1990's. Summer. Midnight, back deck... stargazing.
Bathed in the resounding rhythms of crickets, frogs and nighthawks, I lie comfortably lost to the peaceful night... gazing straight up into the inky, moonless sky wildly strewn with billions upon billions of shining white flickering stars... planets, suns, galaxies - whole constellations as adrift as our own Earth, when suddenly...
...within my peripheral...
...an extremely fleet astral motion caught my attention as...
...from about 45° to my right and due South across the open sky came the straight and smoothly sailing teeniest, tiniest white light, steadily shining like a glint of sunlight against the dark, infinite canvas...
...barely visible... and only more so from my peripheral gaze...
...four astonishingly short seconds till overhead...
...where it paused...
...for about a quarter of a second...
...then, shot 90 degrees to its right, well across the Eastern horizon and, quicker than the blink of an eye... had completely disappeared.
Curious company...
...on that sublimely synchronous starry night...
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