Round The Square:

RTS for Friday, January 25, 2008

GAS PAIN: Lest any of our readers think Bradford gas prices have suddenly come in line with the rest of the country, consider this report from Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Jim Magee of Bradford wrote us Tuesday, “No snow here, Gas was $2.99 the first of January. It is now  it is now $2.74.”

We paid $3.22 on Wednesday, resulting in a record high fill-up price of over $50. And this is just a plain old sedan, not a gas-guzzling SUV or four-wheel-drive truck.

One can only wonder why it might be that the politicians in Washington, D.C., are having such a hard time grasping the concept of “inflation” or — dare we say it? — “recession.”

One weeps for reason.

             

LOOK UP: We must harken back to an item we carried in the middle of December. A woman reported an unusual set of lights when trailed off to the east. We believe it was in the Duke Center area but our memory “ain’t” what it used to be.

A few explanations were offered, including one that the lights were created when a rocket booster from a launch at Cape Canaveral burned up when dropping through the atmosphere.

But we had a call about perhaps something else from quite a few years ago.

Janette Church of Shinglehouse was driving home in the early 1980s and saw a slender cylinder hovering in a field near where homes now exist near the Y at Duke Center and Rixford. At the time, it was an open field.

Janette was not the only one to observe this item and other people had exited their vehicles to take a look at it.

There was no sound. But this large item was hovering right over the horizon.

She’s quite sure this phenomenon occurred during the cold months of the year.

Janette tells us she hadn’t thought about it for quite awhile but that our report in December sparked her memory.

And, so, we ask ... Does anyone remember this or have an explanation?

We know that optical illusions are not uncommon in the sky, particularly when it’s cold outside and ice particles and light team up to create strange stellar sights. We’ve seen the northern lights and seen halos around the sun and moon, and have heard of — but never seen — snow pillars.

 

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