Wingless Sky Monster Part 2

I've been looking at an atlas this morning, trying to figure out the conundrum of the "Wingless Sky Monster!", first reported here a few days ago. Like Dr. Hynek before me, I am troubled by the discrepancies between the time the flaming cylinder appeared in the sky in the Eastern Time Zone and the time it appeared in the sky in the Central Time Zone. Although the sightings are commonly reported as having taken place an hour apart, they seem to have taken place two hours apart, "if the witnesses all reported the times correctly for their individual time zones." And since there's no reason to assume that they didn't, we can thus assume that there were two hours between the sightings in Macon, Georgia (1:45 EDT) and Montgomery, Alabama (2:45 CDT).

But, if the "Wingless Sky Monster!" was really traveling at 700 miles an hour, as two trained observers reported separately, then it only would have taken the "WSM!" about 20 minutes, give or take a few, to traverse the distance between Macon and Montgomery.

What does that mean? It means the "WSM!" had about an hour and forty minutes to kill between sightings. Now, what could a 700 mph wingless rocket do in an hour forty?

"Anything it wants to!"

At 700 miles per hour, the WSM! could cover nearly 12 miles in a minute. That means it could cover nearly 1,200 miles in the hour and forty minutes between sightings. That's a quick jaunt of 600 miles out and 600 miles back for those crafty aliens.

Where did they go?

Looking at the atlas, I can see many possible destinations:

* New Orleans, for some coffee and beignets?
* Miami, for some beach time?
* St. Louis, to fly under the arch?
* Nashville, to hear some country ">You know what they say: "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." But then, other times, a cigar is a UFO!

Credit: aquarius-project.blogspot.com