Wrong-Handed

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Testing. Testing. Kirk Luchtenlooper interview. Tape one, side one. OK, Kirk, just talk into the mike.

Thanks. Ahem. A blinding white disc glowed in the blackness, vibrating slightly, just like the Anti-Christ, which I had been watching religiously for over a month through my telescope.

With a click the light went out, and Dr. Smith pulled the opthalmoscope away from my eye. He gave me a clean bill of health. Gamma rays can’t be focused by a lens, he explained. And besides, they can’t get through the atmosphere. I should have known that.

OK, so on the one hand I was relieved for the sake of my retinas, although on the other hand this eliminated a little supporting evidence I was hoping for. But then, as the UFO crowd says, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I could hardly wait to confront Dr. Timothy Turner with my little discovery.

“What’s the matter? Why’d you turn off the tape?”

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