by Norma Kawak
I picked up the local newspaper and burst out laughing.The headlines shouted out:
UFO’s SEEN OVER WOODRIDGE
One of the witnesses, a scout leader, camping out with a scout troupe in the nearby forest, declared excitedly, “They were definitely UFO’s, I saw them cross the sky. There were three of them.” And he was now ready to tell his story to the broader media. And who wouldn’t have believed a scout leader?
Once I stopped laughing I rang the local group leader, a friend of mine. “For goodness sakes,” I bagged him, “tell him to keep quiet.” And I added. “Don’t believe everything you read in the paper.”
I went on to relay to him the events of the previous Sunday evening when the prankster in my family arrived to share with us his latest gag. He produced some large garbage bags, and with firelighters attached to coat hangers, sent them floating gracefully into the night sky. In essence, they were three hot-air balloons. As luck would have it, I happened to overhear the words UFO coming from the television and dashed inside in time to catch a glimpse of the 6 pm news describing how the previous night four UFO’s had been sighted over Brisbane. When I told the prankster he grinned. “That was us.”
But I still never expected to make Newspaper headlines. When I hear stories of UFO’s now I just chuckled and say, “Oh ya?”
© Norma Kawak 2010
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