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I was aghast. ‘How can you say that?’<br />

‘It could have been something the government is working on. Some<br />

military thing.’<br />

‘Military thing? Are we talking about the Australian government<br />

here? You must be joking!’<br />

‘How would you know, eh? You never know what the government’s<br />

up to these days. I’m not saying it’s not a UFO, but it could be anything.<br />

Anyway — whatever it is, it’s got nothing to do with us.’<br />

That was typical of Andrew. He had always believed that if everyone<br />

minded their own business, we’d all have far fewer hassles to deal with.<br />

He wasn’t denying that he’d seen it. He saw it alright, and he was as<br />

worked up about it as I was. What it really came down to was a matter of<br />

interpretation, for there was no doubt about the existence of the thing.<br />

There it was, as hard and real as anything physical you can name. But what<br />

was it, and where did it come from? That was the real issue between us,<br />

and to Andrew it didn’t really matter. As far as he was concerned there<br />

was nothing that we could do about it, no matter what it was.<br />

Once we’d both had our say, we started to settle back into the drive.<br />

But just a moment later, near Eumemmerring Creek, something else<br />

happened.<br />

Suddenly, there was a light in the middle of the road — a huge bright<br />

white light that seemed to cut off the entire road. It was coming from<br />

directly in front of us. It was blinding me and I couldn’t see a thing; I had<br />

my hand up to shield my eyes, and my face pressed against the<br />

windscreen.<br />

‘Andrew! The light! You see that light? You see that?’<br />

‘Yeah, I see it,’ he said, with the same cautious tone as when the craft<br />

had appeared a few minutes before.<br />

‘What are you going to do?’<br />

‘I’m going to keep on driving.’<br />

I don’t know why he said that. I was thinking that you couldn’t drive<br />

through light that bright, a light shining directly into your eyes. I was<br />

worried that he’d crash the car. But it occurred to me later that the light<br />

could have been coming straight into my eyes from a certain angle, but not<br />

directly into his. If it was very directional, like a spotlight, he could still<br />

have seen something.

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