万花筒 2011-03-30&03-31 美科罗拉多州惊现UFO

 We're gonna have that little Colorado town. That is on the map now for being a UFO magnet. Last week, the people of Lafayette, population of 26,000, looked up the night's sky and saw a strange triangular¹ formation of lights. The video has gone viral, so Clayton Sandell went there to see what's up.

 

One thing is for sure.

 

What the hell is that?

 

People in Lafayette, Colorado, don't know what they saw last week hovering² above their homes.

 

--I don't think it was an airplane, definitely not. 

 

--When it flew over there, this is just really weird³ energy.

 

Lester Valdez saw the lights, along with all of his neighbors.

 

--I have never witnessed anything like that though.

 

He says there were kind of like those tiny bright alien ships from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

 

--It was exactly something like that where you see an object and they all just kind of got into a pattern.

 

--They are just like ...

 

Leroy Vandervet and his son Nick managed to capture them on camera.

 

--It was completely quiet. No noise at all.

 

Leroy doesn't know what it was either, but he is sure that it wasn't a satellite, wasn't a helicopter and he says it wasn't an airplane.

 

Skeptics say there must be a perfectly⁴ good explanation. One that doesn't involve little green men.

 

--The idea of it actually being an alien spacecraft is pretty wacky

 

Beyond that, it's still a mystery, we tried calling the FAA for help. They refused to speak with us.

 

It is possible this is all a hoax⁵, after all, Lafayette isn't too far from where balloon boy's UFO took flight.

 

--If I'm lived to tell this, Oh, my ,god!

 

For now, it's clear this is an unidentified flying object. but is it really extra-terrestrial or just a plain old terrestrial?

 

Clayton Sandell, ABC News Lafayette,Colorado.

1 triangular   

adj.三角（形）的，三者间的

参考例句：

• It's more or less triangular plot of land.这块地略成三角形。
• One particular triangular relationship became the model of Simone's first novel.一段特殊的三角关系成了西蒙娜第一本小说的原型。

2 hovering   

鸟( hover的现在分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫

参考例句：

• The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad. 直升机在离发射台一百米的上空盘旋。
• I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight. 我犹豫不决今晚是听音乐会还是看戏。

3 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

4 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

5 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。