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Public Forums => Wrightwood History => Topic started by: GRAHAM_RANCH on May 01, 08, 05:37:42 PM
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Wrightwood, Ca
There was something strange going on the west side of Wrightwood, and darn if it wasn't messing around with the rerun episode of Wonder Woman! The women were relieved, but dad burn it! there was something to Linda Carter's outfit that grabbed the attention of the men. It was shortly after nightfall on July 26, 1976 when the fire department got telephone calls of strange happenings occurring on Flume Canyon Road and Cardinal Street, just on the Los Angeles County line of Wrightwood. Blue lights were seen silently cruising by homes and vacant lots at certain intervals at street level! Wives pulled husbands away from the boob tube (excuse the pun) and they pointed out the windows at the strange blue lights in the distance.
As husbands watched, the blue lights went up Flume Canyon and Cardinal street and zigzagged through the cross streets. Was it space aliens or something else out of the ordinary? In a mountain community it really didn't matter, for the only proper way to check out the unknown was to lock and load the 30.30 hunting rifle and have a look-see. Who knew what was going through the residents' minds as they studied the situation outside. One thing for sure is this, instead of being fearful of the blue lights, they should have been more attentive of the glowing dots on the ground.
Before the fire department responded, residents saw the blue lights stop occasionally and heard the unmistakable sound of a truck door opening. After a quick outburst of unintelligible words from the blue lights, quick scurrying feet would rush over to the green glow on the ground while holding long tong-type instruments, and then return to the blue light with it. There was the unmistakable sound of an auto door opening and closing, and once again the blue light was on its way to the nearest green glow.
The activity outside in the darkening night would not last long. The Wrightwood Fire Department soon learned that a vehicle was using "black light" to locate scorpions in the field for scientific studies. The "black light" made the scorpion fluoresce or glow. The Wrightwood Mountaineer wrote of this night, "Residents were somewhat alarmed at the strange sight." What was more alarming was some father's outburst when they learned that they missed the rest of Wonder Woman.
Just a little bit of fact and a little bit of the other stuff
T. Graham
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It is such fun to read your work! Thank you.