Are Aliens Invading Dallin?
DALLIN. For the third week running, residents driving past Coyote Crossing after dark are reporting the same thing: low lights over the mesa, moving in ways no aircraft in this county has any business moving. Nobody's caught one on camera long enough to prove much of anything. That hasn't stopped the checkout line at the grocery store from turning into the town's unofficial newsroom on the subject.
"I've lived out past the crossing for thirty-one years, and I know what a plane looks like, and I know what a drone looks like," said longtime resident Doris Calloway, who reported seeing three lights hang motionless over the canyon before scattering "faster than anything with an engine has a right to." She isn't alone. This reporter has now logged eleven separate accounts since the first sighting, most describing the same pattern: lights low and silent, then gone in an instant.
Cactus BioChem, whose research facility sits less than two miles from the reported sightings, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. It is not the company's first silence on a community question, and residents have noticed. "Every time something strange happens out that way, it's always right around their fence line," said one grocery-store employee who asked not to be named. "Maybe that's nothing. Maybe it isn't."
Dallin County Sheriff's deputies say they've received the calls but have "nothing conclusive to report at this time." In the meantime, the theories keep coming: aliens, a government project gone sideways, something environmental, and at least one vote for Bigfoot's cousin. This paper doesn't have an answer either, but we're not done asking. A formal poll on the theories is coming in a future issue, but anyone with a photo, a video, or an explanation is encouraged to write in now.