Mystery Black Boxes (8)

But one of the most interesting black box mysteries is my own. As the pattern of alien black box devices began to emerge from the data, I gathered my references together to produce this article on my computer. One night, I strolled through the menus of my computer files to be certain that I had not already created a reference file for this article. I was surprised to discover a .4K file named "Box" already on the drive. I wondered if I had forgotten that I created it, working through the night as I often do. I pulled up the "Box" file to check the contents and I literally could not believe my eyes. I ran to get my husband to witness the event. There, on a word processing file with no graphic capabilities, mind you, was a 1" by 2" outline of a black box!

In order to create this kind of graphic on a word processing program, one would need to know computer programming. I don't, my husband doesn't and no one else has access to my equipment. Besides that, my computer is not" online"-no random hacker could have surreptitiously inserted the file on my hard drive, at least not in any way we currently understand. We even checked with the computer experts who last upgraded the equipment. They did not know about my proposed black box article, and indeed knew absolutely nothing about how this graphic black box presented itself on a file in my computer. They couldn't even guess.

I just have to chalk up this experience as another Black Box Mystery. I didn't put the box there. I couldn't have, even if I wanted to. This "Box" file defies all logic and should not exist. But it does. Just as aliens are not supposed to exist; but they do. And many of them seem to depend on their little black boxes to make sure we get that message.