November 2008 ArchivesAnn Arbor woke up to more rain today....not surprising considering trails were being laid down most of the night as those of us out for a moonlight stroll surely noted. I took pictures but only one really showed up well. Still don't have the hang of night photo shoots! Anyway, look at this. It's really creepy how the gaps in pressure show up in the dark.....definitely not a trail left by a smoothly functioning motor. This is a spray operation! This was taken from the top of Fountain St. near Sunrise at about 9 pm. 
But just go on pretending they are not there....better not to say anything as we rake our leaves up and say hello to the proud young parents pushing their stroller by our lawn, or watch the 15 year old raging by on his skate board. We tend our flowers, raise our children, shop downtown at the farmers market and chat in the last few golden days of fall before the frigid blasts of winter begin ramping up. Everything so calm and ordinary. Meanwhile in the blue skies above us another drama has been unfolding, a separate life, alien and frightening. What do these giant X's signify and who is to read them? The following were taken over the last few days:    In quiet neighborhoods we see the trails Xed and re Xed over and over as if underlining some mysterious hieroglyph. As I chat with friends and neighbors I see the strange signs above their homes while we talk of dinner and the details of our little lives. But above us big plans are made and we know nothing of them:     sometimes the long expanding trails will seem to "roll over" as if someone twisted them just like a ribbon....like this:   Is this some form of pulse or radiation that causes a distortion? The following shows a triple cross in the making:  on the left side of the X you can see another jet approaching. Here it is from a slightly different location as it crosses the center line:  the following are shots of the triple cross with the strange curve on the right shot from different places as I drove down Huron towards the campus area:     |