It was late one February night and I had
just taken my dogs outback for a walk.
I had been thinking about the fact that it was around this time
that my mother and I had, had to force my now deceased brother
Ralph to go to the hospital and how he had wanted to go home
but my mother and I would not give him the key to get back into
his apartment.
I became sad, so I did then as I often do when I start to feeling
down I go outside and "Throw it into the sky," as I
call it.
In other words I just go out and look into the skies and let
my thoughts wander this always makes me feel better.
Unfortunate for me when I stepped out side though crystal clear
it was freezing and I went back in to stand at the doorway of
the basement.
As I stood at the foot of the basement stairs waiting for my
dogs I was told,
" Look above your head."
I stepped out on to the stairs and looked up and saw something
slowly rotating
directly over my building.
It looked like an elongated dead jelly fish for it was solid
but semitransparent at points but at others it seemed opaque
or a faint filmy white in others.
It did remind me of a crooked balloon one of those long ones.
"It's a balloon," I said to my self "That or a
blown up condom."
I was ready to dismiss it at that but for the reason that it
was absolutely stationary on such a breezy night other than its
rotation it did not move at all.
Then I said to myself,
" Maybe it is a piece of clear plastic on a spider web and
its closer to me than I think it is."
So I came up out of the basement and stepped in to the yard and
squinted and
moved from side to side to see how it's position change relative
to the house.
Then I finally said "It has to be something on a spider
web."
But then I thought,"Wait a minute it was mid winter where
the hell would a spider web come from at this time?"
There had been several heavy snow storms in the weeks before
this happened and so if it was a spider web it would have had
to been brought down by ice, wind, rain or snow before then.
That was when the object suddenly as if it became unmoored began
to move to the south.
"Good I thought the strand had broken and I expected the
plastic thing to become entangled in the branches of the tree
at the end of my yard.
Instead the object passed over the tree and only then did I realize
how big this
object had to be as I watched it twirling off like a boomerang
in slow motion turning clockwise as it slowly went.
At that point I could see the object had been very high up in
the sky and so was enormous.
The larger picture that I have made of this object shows the
exact size that the
object appeared to me from the ground.
I believe this thing to have been a Nont, though I got the feeling
that this one was sick, dieing, or dead.
