click to enlarge!This new space is terrifying to me, and it is also a great, great curiosity. That's because it's not just a website in the old way we used to think of websites ... oh, no my friends, it is not.

It's more of an experiment, in the way that those dried space monkeys in a glass are an experiment. Not that I ever had space monkeys; they were something you bought from the back of a comic book and I never read comic books very much as a kid. Plus, we were poor and I would have had to play sick and stay home from school to ambush the mailman before he got to our house and then I would have had to hide the thing the whole time I tried to enjoy its bubbling magic, and hiding a glass of fomenting monkeys away from my mother in my room was not that easy.

I'd link you right up to the sightings report in question so you can post your comments, but right now I don't know how to do that. Never fear -- we will learn to navigate this space soon enough and build roads and landmarks. Right now, it's virgin snow. Trek on.

But you would have keep watch once you applied the water if you wanted to see the wonder and/or avoid a huge mess. This site is like that. Within the confines of a generous space, we (Lesley mostly; let's be clear) are dribbling in bits of sightings, scary stories, unusual moments ... rants, raves, and requests ... and each and every part of this thing comes with that handy comments button, which is where the magic comes in.

We just don't know how it's going to grow or what shape it might take or what kind of space it might grow up to be. That's up to you -- the fluid you that will step in and stir things around here. You might be asked to become a guest blogger and your words might catch fire. You might have a sighting tonight and post it to the discussion forum. You get the picture. It's a marvel that we have a tool like this: so easy to just hit a button and write.

So, that's what I've been doing lately -- peeking in the glass, basically. This photo? Isn't it amazing? A reader sent it a few months back right when it happened. There, in the snow outside his window, his security cam captured ... something. What do you think it is? There will be those among you who can totally answer that question. Of that, I have no doubt. Is it an alien, a mirage, a bend of the light? Check it out.