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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.