THE TURQUOISE PEN

FACES IN THE SKY

Noël R. King

Once, when I was flying in a jumbo jet from Spain to southern Africa, I looked up from my in-flight magazine to see a UFO beside our plane. (I was in a window seat.)

Inside the UFO (it had windows, too), I saw a little face appear and see me through the glass. The little face started making faces at me, pressing its nose and lips against the glass, pulling back its eyelids, etc. It was all very familiar to me, having been a highway traveler many years.

Then a big one of it came and pulled the little one away, and off they sped into the sky.

"Hm," I smiled. "I wonder where they are going?"

Then I turned and took a nap.

—As circumstances warrant, through her Turquoise Pen column Noël R. King, Scottsville, Virginia, reports on strange and wonderful things, including faces in jumbo jet windows on the way to Africa.