A selection from "News on the March" by Edward Morris

News on the March

by Edward Morris

B

urning Debris in the Sky Was PAN-ASIAN Missile FMC Reports the ‘Meteor’ over R.oF WASHINGTON may Have Crashed in r. OF OREGON.

USAP/MIL/GOV/ SALEM — The brilliant flare of fire that woke residents of Vanport, Washington and surrounding areas was a misfired Pan-Asian ICBM in disintegrating orbit, which WestUS Northern Command missile defense systems quickly shot down after a Pacific Rim attempt to clear their own orbital space of several large-scale meteorites.

Federal astronomers are not disputing said findings as yet, though no prior warning was given as to any unannounced meteor showers over Shentsi Province.  Col. Erik Ulery, Federated Military Corps Long-Range Reconnaissance High Command, said FMC-Recon are even now verifying reports that a piece of the missile may have hit the ground near the Vanport Reactor at about 9 PM Pacific Standard Time.

(As this reporter goes to live feed, however, I must report that Recon are still not on-scene. However, our own scanners here at the station record no unusual activity or distress calls from anywhere near the reactor. Further bulletins  as events warrant.)

 “Our first concern was that this very spectacular burning object we all saw was not a crashing aircraft of some unknown type. It was leaving a burning trail behind it, too. Objects falling from space are an everyday occurrence in this day and age, but not into urban terrain,” Ulery clarified.

The Colonel also informs me that  there was, in his words, “No known connection between similar ‘meteor’ sightings throughout the Eastern US Capital State of Philadelphia, as well as Ft. Laramie, Wyoming; Weed, California; Portland, Oregon Provisional Secessionist Republic, and points in Canada too numerous to mention. 

“The Perseids are in season, or the Leonids, or some [expletive deleted] –ids, Lieutenant, tell that little faggot there to get the camera out of my f—” [Feed cuts out]

  The Colonel also reports that a rocket burns up differently than any sort of natural aerolite; in many thousands of pieces, with a flare of burning metal, as opposed to several big chunks of amorphous material. Most re-entries of space trash go unseen, Ulery states, because they happen in daylight or in the middle of nowhere.

 Tonight’s augury was widely witnessed because it occurred during the second/third-trick commute just above the advertising border on the local horizon, tracking from east to west. Had it been directly overhead, Ulery points out, few commuters would have even noticed.

 All this comes at odds with the testimonies of twenty stubborn employees of VPDX Aerospaceport, who are very upset that FMC Brass will give no credence to their accounts of two oblate speroids that plummeted to Earth in the area of the ‘port so quickly they created a small tornado, said the twenty VPDX-Spacelines pre-flight crew on duty at the time of the alleged phenomena.

 All witnesses said the objects were silver-and-black and very clearly visible, with no external lights of any kind, roughly eight feet in diameter.  The unidentified aerolites were first seen by an FMC non-com ground crew worker who was power-oxying the hull of a Grumman-Dahaitsu geosynch skipcraft at Gate D12 at approximately 1440 hours, according to this soldier’s testimony. 

 FMC Press Liasons profess no knowledge of the event, reported by more than 500 nationalized-airline workers when questioned recently.  All controllers and radio operators of any rank in the area reported nothing out of the ordinary.

Yet hundreds of employees are protesting the lack of action on the part of the FMC. They state that the objects could have interfered with any instrument in the area, and probably did. Many have called off sick or walked off the job.