The Sailing Stones of Death Valley

I’d first read about these things years ago when I was a kid, and over the course of my life thought I’d made it all up—until I checked out this MSN link. Well, I’ll be danged—there they were!  The Sailing Stones of Death Valley!

Okay, being that I’ve given so much thought to these over the course of my life, and that this is so fricking out there to begin with, I thought I’d come up with a just-as-out-there possible solution. A gedankenexperiment, s’il vous plait:

What do the tracks look like?

Trajectories.

Of what?

(Here it comes…)

Flying saucers. UFOs. Foo Fighters!

Yeah, isn’t that out there?  I mean really out there?

But, wait—there’s more.

What kind of UFOs, you ask?

Ours.

Ain’t that just great?

Maybe…it’s a training field for UFO drivers, as they’re being taught by the Master UFO drivers, yeah? You know, like when you learned to drive, you took out the Family Truckster into a deserted parking lot and drove donuts til you puked?

I don’t know how much I believe this, but let’s just give this some amusing “whiteboard” consideration, in this gedankenexperiment of ours. And, yes, I know—these things have supposedly been around some 90 years, but with some of this “technology,” time actually doesn’t matter, and UFOs have also been seen for as long as Humans have been walking this earth—they’re even in some Renaissance paintings. I say that Death Valley being a “huge patch of nothing” makes it a great area for UFOs to play around in, whoever’s flying. You know, screaming around, buzzing and skimming inches over the ground. Heck, conventional fighter pilots do it—why not other “pilot types,” right?

And what if these UFOs were controlled by magnetism or electrogravitics, or some other power source that emitted a force field? So, here you are screaming along at 70,000 feet, then—purely and justly fer kicks—you dump the nose, and power dive…only to yank-and-bank it out of oblivion at the last possible moment….

Or, perhaps, you’re just tooling along in your craft, and huggin the ground, like terrain following aircraft ….

So, you see, in this gedankenexperiment coming so close to the ground, your force field would move some rocks about…while leaving others untouched.

It fits!

Okay, that’s my theory, whether or not I believe is moot…

But, most amusing to kick around!