Impybat
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Here is another strange account from my Fortean Files. This took place in January of 1997, I believe. I was working at an after school center for elementary aged kids as a teacher doing homework tutoring and arts & crafts, basically glorified babysitting. The children from our town's schools who participated in the program were bused over except for a few kids, who were coming from the school next door to the center, so we would walk over to meet them. There was a short paved path from our parking lot to the school playground, and this is where we would meet the kids coming from that school.
My co-teacher and I headed over to meet the kids. We were about 15 minutes early and were sitting on the path enjoying the nice weather. We had been having a week of unseasonably warm weather, and all the snow had melted. This particular day was bright, clear, and sunny.
I looked up and noticed movement in the sky. It was barely discernible from the rest of the sky, but I saw what seemed to be a flock of something, way high–impossibly high–in the air. My first thought was that they were a flock of hawks migrating, but it was the wrong season and they were way too high in the air. They were moving slowly. I tried pointing them out to my co-teacher, but he didn’t see them. Eventually the kids arrived and I lost sight of the flying things.
There's another account that seems similar to my experiences in The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel. It describes the Italian astronomer Ricco, while studying the sun at 8 am on November 30, 1880, at the observatory in Palermo, Sicily, witnessed “winged bodies in two parallel lines slowly traveling, apparently across the disc of the sun. They looked like large birds or cranes.”
That wasn’t exactly what I saw, but it was close.
My co-teacher and I headed over to meet the kids. We were about 15 minutes early and were sitting on the path enjoying the nice weather. We had been having a week of unseasonably warm weather, and all the snow had melted. This particular day was bright, clear, and sunny.
I looked up and noticed movement in the sky. It was barely discernible from the rest of the sky, but I saw what seemed to be a flock of something, way high–impossibly high–in the air. My first thought was that they were a flock of hawks migrating, but it was the wrong season and they were way too high in the air. They were moving slowly. I tried pointing them out to my co-teacher, but he didn’t see them. Eventually the kids arrived and I lost sight of the flying things.
There's another account that seems similar to my experiences in The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel. It describes the Italian astronomer Ricco, while studying the sun at 8 am on November 30, 1880, at the observatory in Palermo, Sicily, witnessed “winged bodies in two parallel lines slowly traveling, apparently across the disc of the sun. They looked like large birds or cranes.”
That wasn’t exactly what I saw, but it was close.
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