Journal of a UFO Investigator by David Halperin

Author:David Halperin [Halperin, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-17T08:00:00+00:00

“Where are we?” I said.

Where do you think?

My head was in her lap. I felt weirdly light, as if I were going to sail off into space at any minute. I couldn’t see her, but I didn’t know if that was because she was still transparent or if my head was at the wrong angle. I wondered if the seeding was already past, if I’d been part of it and yet somehow missed it.

“Are we on the moon?”

Colored shapes streamed through the black sky above us. A flotilla of glowing objects, like the one that stopped over my house and hurled itself down upon me. Like the gas station signs, the evening before my mother’s heart attack, when my father drove us home from a picnic in the country and I lay with my feet in his lap and my head in hers, and I watched the blazing disk of Gulf and the red star of Texaco and the winged, bloodred horse of Mobilgas stream through the sky beyond the car window. I was safe then and happy. For the last time.

Far beneath me I heard a faint murmur, which I took to be the lapping of tiny waves.

“We’re in one of the towers,” I said. “Aren’t we?”

Just like in the crater that the Gypsies had drawn in their book. There must be many such towers on the hidden side of the moon—way stations for vast and thrilling journeys among the stars. The waves surely broke against its base.

“So there is water here,” I said.

And I could drink from the moon, as she’d bidden me do. From water that was sweet and pure and good. I felt relief beyond anything I’d known.

I listened to the rustling, the humming. I began to doze. I slipped away....

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