mystery, yet another

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Okay. This is getting spooky. 2011.

Last week, I half-heartedly called on Scully and Mulder to come out of retirement to investigate a strange, hairless animal shot in Kentucky. Somehow I felt safer when the pair of pariah FBI agents were sleuthing into all those things that go bump in the night. Didn't you?

Now, red-winged blackbirds have dropped from the sky by the thousands in Arkansas and, days later, in Louisiana. "Residents there had reported stumbling upon the bodies littering the ground and even being hit by them as they fell," one report states.

Yet, another posting reads, "Preliminary tests in Arkansas revealed the birds deaths were a result of massive trauma. Experts believe that fireworks are to blame for deaths, claiming that the sudden lights and sounds likely frightened the birds. The official cause of death for the tested birds was acute physical trauma leading to internal hemorrhage. Dr. George Bradley did note in an interview with NBC that the birds did not die on impact but died while still in mid-air."

Yes, mid-air.

When you rule out the probable and possible, you are left with the improbable. Is it therefore possible that the 5,000 blackbirds flew into a hovering saucer-shaped object in the dead of night?

Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana. My part of the planet. We need Fox to reopen the X-Files.

For more information go to: X-File.

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