The Rothline Perspective

On March 24, 2011 the Channel 6 News in Tulsa, Oklahoma reported on a sighting of a strange light in the sky.

Could the light in the sky be a shooting star, a meteorite, or something intelligent from another world? One witness claimed that when she saw the light she heard a fizzle sound.

Was that the fizzle of a hyper-drive engine from a craft visiting from another world?

Probably not, because the Channel 6 news report said:

Wayne Harris-Wyrick, an astronomer with over 30 years experience working at the Science Museum, said it was most likely a meteor the size of a walnut falling from space. Anything else he said is highly unlikely.

D’oh!

Hey, don’t let some science expert ruin your fun. You’ve probably seen one or more sci-fi or horror movies where the opening credits state, “Based on a true story” or “Based on true events.”

Take the film The Exorcist (1973) for example. That film claims to be based on true events.

Zoinks!

That claim is exaggerated.

The film is based on a book that was inspired by the events of a boy in Maryland during the 1940s that suffered from a neurochemical muscular movement/tic disease known as Tourette’s Syndrome. That along with some other emotional issues resulted in the boy behaving in a way that was pretty freaking scary.

Instead of contacting a doctor or a psychologist the parents contacted the local Catholic Church, which promptly sent over some priests to torment the poor child who was never demon possessed but emotionally unstable. Granted there is still debate over the case of this boy.

The point being that this true event inspired the highly imaginative fictional novel of a girl being possessed by the devil who could spin her head, spit green pea soup, and walk down a flight of stairs like a spider.

So now take the true event of a strange light in the Oklahoma sky along with the sound of fizzle and you’ve got yourself an inspiration for a book or movie that is based on true events.

Here’s how you get started:

1. The story begins with several people in Oklahoma witnessing the strange light and the fizzle sound.
2. People start noticing that some of their family, friends, and pets are missing.
3. Police stations across the state are flooded with calls of missing people and bizarre events.
4. Two days later a missing man is found alive but disoriented in a crop circle near Salina, Oklahoma.
5. He remembers nothing but he has unexplained surgical scars on his body.

So take it from there. Write the next X-Files movie or make up your own movie.

Either way, you can claim it was based on true events.

Have you lied?

No.

Groovy baby, groovy

If video does not play use this link to view the NewsOn6 report.