more of the night THEY came home

The anniversary fast approaches of the largest ever UFO sighting in Irish history, now known as The Kilcullen Incident. The incident took place four years ago this weekend. A few hours after midnight, police began receiving reports of a formation of lights in the sky above the Wicklow mountains. The lights appeared, then disappeared. They were motionless in the sky. Witnesses over a fifty mile stretch of countryside from Naas, Athy and Carlow reported seeing them. The formations were filmed from Kilcullen by my father Tom Healy. This footage lent its name to the incident. Army sources have indicated to me that the UFO's were in fact army parachute flares being used during army night manoeuvres in the Glen Of Imaal. I believe this explanation accounts for the lights with a certainty above 90 percent. I would have said the explanation was 100 percent certain, except for the fact that my army sources themselves refused to state the probabilities so categorically. One said: "I am certain these are army parachute flares. But I wouldn't bet my mortgage on it." My assessment is that if he was absolutely certain, he would bet his mortgage on it. Neither army officer was able to account for the lights being motionless in the sky. Army parachute flares are designed to sink slowly towards the ground, extinguishing just as they reach earth. The officers' explanation was that these lights were being seen from so far away that they only appeared motionless. One conspiracy theory around the lights has persisted in spite of the parachute flares explanation. Within days of The Kilcullen Incident, a book on UFO's was published in Ireland. Could the authors of the book have colluded with friends in the army to stage the sightings? The army has been using the Glen Of Imaal for more than half a century. Night manouvres have never previously resulted in a widespread regional UFO sighting. Perhaps the flares were fired higher than normal in order to create the required illusion... One other factor of note might be considered in assessing the sighting. When I was showing film footage of the lights to Giovanna Rampazzo and Mareen Von Liebnitz at their apartment in Dublin, a shelf partially detached from their kitchen wall, spilling items onto the floor. For a moment we were all quite dumbfounded. Then our instinctive capacity for denial, kicked in. "Well that just goes to show," said Giovanna as we stared at the debris, "that girls don't know how to put up shelves." The falling shelf showed nothing of the sort. She knew it and so did I. But if anything mysterious was involved it is more likely to have been the actions of our over stimulated imaginations inducing telekinetic pressure on the shelf, than anything directly to do with the UFO's reaching out to cause such an effect from the video. So it was either telekinesis or else the girls were witches and through playing with the occult had allowed some sort of an evil spirit into their apartment. To be clear, I'm saying the falling shelf was caused by telekinesis or a disembodied spirit. I'm 90 percent certain of that one too.