It came from the sky!

A short story and birthday gift to my Friend.

The call came at night just after sunset to the Copper Mountain Mesa Police Department dispatch center. The new rookie Ami Ven was the only officer on shift at the time patrolling the town in an old 1974 Dodge Charger squad car. The city council wouldn’t approve the cost of any newer vehicles. The “Muscle Car” was like something out of an old ‘70s police TV show like Starsky and Hutch, Ami felt. Maybe she should wear her hair like Farrah Fawcett did back then. These old squad cars were kept running in perfect condition by Frank, a 59 year old master mechanic and part time fellow officer, who loved tinkering with anything mechanical.

“There’s several reports of a UFO flying in the skies in the vicinity of Winters Road and Bourland Pass,” announced the dispatcher’s voice over the squad car’s police radio.

“I’m on it. Be there in ten minutes,” was Ami’s excited reply. She has heard of UFOs being seen out in the desert and now was her chance to really observe one. She then punched the “pedal to the metal” for the first time ever in this ancient jalopy and was surprised to be thrown and pinned against the driver’s seat as the old Charger’s highly modified engine gulped fuel down its Holley four barrel carburetor to turn it into 450 plus horsepower. Rocketing down the road at eye watering speeds she arrived at the scene in five minutes.

She found the folks of this small desert community standing around in awe watching a small object zip across the sky, and then making loop de loops as if showing off. Some spectators came excitedly up to her squad car as she opened the driver’s door with the emblem CMMP painted on its side.

“Do you see it?” asked one.

“Look it’s looping around again and now shooting off across the sky at tremendous speeds,” explained another.

Always the skeptic, Ami left the crowd of awed spectators and headed off in the direction of the object. She walked a quarter of a mile to where she found a string tied to a fence post. She cut it and the kite attached drifted off into the night sky never to do a loop de loop or fly across the night skies at tremendous speeds again.

Ami walked back to the crowd still gathered waiting for the “UFO” to return and Ami Ven didn’t say one word to them about it only being a kite.

~RD