Eerie night: The thing in the sky

 After the monster porcupine went on its way, my friends and I slowly went back to hanging out and telling stories. We caught up on all the time missed during the summer, periodically moving from the living room to the deck, and back to the living room. I finished The Watchmen, and decided it would be a good idea to stargaze. So, I went out on the deck and hung out for awhile, spending some time with my new friend Jessica. She turned out to be pretty cool. We looked up at the sky, and swapped what if stories about the universe. I kept pointing out satellite dishes, and she kept trying to find them. There was one in particular that caught my eye. Satellites usually follow a straight line as they circle around Earth. They look like stars, but move at an angle in a straight line. I spotted one of these satellites, or what I thought was a satellite. The weird thing about this one was that it moved in a straight line, but stopped and, to my best recollection, zigzagged across the sky. It was pretty cool, but creepy as well. We were pretty sure the 'satellite' was an alien spacecraft. After it disappeared we spent close to an hour trying to find something else that would happen. Something else that would engage us into spending more time beneath the stars. And boy did we find that something. I remember saying, "Oh look a shooting star." And as soon as I said that, something came crashing down from the sky off to our right. It wasn't just anything. It was a flaming ball of fire, according to Jessica. What I saw was something different. I literally saw what looked like a ship of some sort on fire crash landing. It was massive in size, and wasn't on fire with the usual red lighting. This thing had blue and green fire coming from its backside, and looked to be propelled by something at the end. I shit you not, this is what I saw. We saw it crash behind Mount Roberts. And it crashed with ridiculous speed. We saw it for about three seconds before it crashed, that is how fast it was moving. Anyway, when it crashed, all of Mount Juneau lit up red. I mean the whole mountain. Two flashes of red came from behind Mt. Roberts when the object crashed, and for a few moments, it looked like daylight on Mt. Juneau. As soon as it happened I looked at Jessica. We had the same look in our eyes. We had both seen what could have been a plane crash, an alien spacecraft, or what most people have told me was space junk. From time to time garbage is collected in the atmosphere, mainly from spacecrafts, and falls to Earth. The thing about the falling balls of junk is that they are very small in stature when they land on Earth. Most of the time they are only inches in size. Whatever fell from the sky that night looked to be bigger than the Mount Roberts Tram. I remember this because the object fell right behind the tram, and it seemed to be bigger than the tram itself. Jessica and I ran inside to tell the others. It took them a second to believe us. I started calling everybody I knew that could have been awake at midnight. I started by calling everybody I knew that lived downtown and in Douglas. Nobody had seen what we had. Nobody believed it was a craft of some sort. And Nobody had heard of this from anybody else. I was constantly asked if I was taking drugs, if I was on a hallucinogenic. When I finished making phone calls, I sat there. We sat there, Jessica and I, for two hours trying to see if anything else would happen. We were sure that at the very least someone was in trouble, and that the Coast Guard, or somebody was gonna be coming in with helicopters to aid in the situation. We sat there, in the cold, for two hours and nobody came. Laura sat out with us for a little while, and she claimed to have seen what looked like a flare. But nobody else saw it.

It was not until the next day that people started to believe me. Because as it turns out, we were not the only people who saw the thing in the sky. Other people I know that were downtown saw it, and a few from Douglas too. The thing about it is that nobody could agree on what they saw. Some people saw a flaming ball of fire, while others could not describe it. It never made the papers, and the tower at the airport claims it was a test run by the coast guard for an emergency flare. And I only know this because I got the information from someone in the tower. I do know one thing though. The thing from the sky was no kind of flare I have ever seen or heard about before.

Eerie night

This last summer reminded me of how anything can happen. And these things can happen anywhere, at any time. There was one particular night that stood out in my mind. I decided to go to a friends house, on Douglas island (Juneau, AK), and hang out for a while. It was clear out, and the stars sat in their usual spots. We spent a good amount of that night indoors, laughing and telling stories. There were four of us that night, and we will all remember what happened, even if it never reached the papers.
I was watching The Watchmen, which is an amazing movie. I was so into it, so comfortable, that it took Laura three times to get my attention. She kept trying to get me outside on the porch of her upstairs apartment. I asked her if it was really that important, and she said, "You're not going to believe this, we thought it was a bear, but you're gonna have to see it to believe it." I'll give her this, she got my attention. I followed her out on the porch, followed straight to where she was pointing. There is one bright light pole outside her apartment, and something was smack dab in the middle of its light. It was too big to be a dog, and the possibility of it being a bear was moderate at best. When it moved, it did not move like either. Instead, it waddled. And thinking of things that waddled, I knew exactly what it was. This creature was a mammoth sized porcupine. Honestly, the thing must have been four to five feet in length, on all fours. When it started moving towards us Laura's dog began to growl. The porcupine froze. It stopped and looked up at us. The weird thing about porcupines is that they are almost blind. They rely on smell and hearing. So, to see something staring right at you, that shouldn't be able to is scary. I remember the eerie feeling you get when stuff like that happens. I remember what happened to me. I tingled everywhere, leaving goosebumps. I had never seen a porcupine really look at me. At least not one as serious as this one was. For a second I thought the thing was gonna try to attack us. But that would have taken time, seeing that its waddle is the slow motion of a slug on steroids. Instead of attacking us, the porcupine looked left, looked right, and turned around. It took two steps, and I shit you not, sat up on its hind legs. The thing turned its head, looked at us, and flexed its whole body. Every quill stood up, and they weren't like any regular quills I had ever seen. These quills were huge. Anywhere from eight to twelve inches in length. Everybody on the deck took a step back. After proving its worth, the porcupine got back down on all fours, waddled away from the light pole, and back into the woods. I still think the thing was some type of rare animal, some kind of porcupine that is not supposed to exist, at least not here.
As weird a night as it was at that point, it was only gonna get weirder. What we saw later that night had me and a friend calling people, waking them up, and trying to make them believe us.

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