UFO Makers

Years ago, I lived near the Wanaque reservoir in northern New Jersey. I would always find myself driving the winding hilly roads near those miles and miles of water. I was a subscriber to WEIRD NEW JERSEY magazine and had loaded up on stories of the Wanaque UFO sightings in the 60s. The area was super creepy at night. Especially around the dam, where the sightings supposedly took place.


My brother and I built a triangle out of red glow sticks and tied it to a bunch of those aluminum-looking balloons and drove the thing up to the dam late one winter night. We decided to suspend a birthday cake candle at the very bottom and light it at both ends. The ballast was perfect and the thing slowly drifted away from the car and over the water. The red from the glow sticks was reflecting off of the shiny balloons. The candle was flickering like mad and was about to blow out. A car was approaching as we sped away. As we passed the car, we looked back and saw their brake lights as the car came to a complete stop. They must have spotted the UFO. With perfect timing, the cheap string we were using to suspend the triangle snapped. With a strange vertical flash, the craft took a nose dive into the dark and disappeared.

Success.


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