Moving Stars

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: Near Wind River Range, Wyoming
Source: Form Submission

I had a similar experience to Vicki Whitehead's "Eradicated Stars" story. I grew up in a small town near the Wind River Range in Wyoming. During the summer months, my brother and I and our friends would pitch a tent outside our house on the lawn and sleep out almost every night. Armed with a bag of Chip's Ahoy and a book on constellations, we would stare at the sky for hours. It got to the point where we could differentiate between satellites, falling stars and comets, jets, and other things. We called the other things we saw "Moving Stars". Unlike satellites and falling stars, these would travel forward, backward, zigzag around, stop for a while, and then warp out of sight at maximum speed like something out of Star Trek. We saw a lot of the "Moving Stars" every night that we slept out. By the way, a lot of people I knew in this same town, saw a lot of other strange things in the sky and a cattle mutilation happened on a nearby ranch in the 1970's.