Black Sphere Found Hovering at Jungle's Edge After Blue Light Crosses Twilight Sky

CO KHAO — A smooth black sphere, said to be hanging a foot above the ground at the edge of the trees, is the centre of a tale offered this week by the podcast Weird Darkness in its Midnight In The Macabre programme. The episode, billed under the heading "The Dark Realm," is a dramatised reading of a work of fiction, "The Black Sphere," by the author Patrick Greene, and is presented as such in its credits.

According to the episode's description, the events begin seventeen months after the official end of a war. A survey crew of six ex-servicemen hikes into the jungle behind Co Khao. Their employer, the description states, is a French power company, and their task is the laying of markers.

On the crew's first night in the jungle, the account continues, a ball of blue light crosses the twilight sky. The men then discover the sphere, which the description characterises as smooth and black, suspended a foot off the ground at the margin of the forest.

The published summary goes no further, and this newspaper has not been furnished with what the men make of the object, whether it moves, or whether the survey is completed. Readers wishing to learn the outcome are directed to the episode itself, which is available on Spreaker and through the usual podcast channels.

The production credits the story to Mr. Greene, whose books are listed on Amazon and whose writings appear on a website devoted to what he calls fear writing. Weird Darkness, which describes itself as publishing episodes seven days a week, covers paranormal subjects, true crime, ghosts, unidentified flying objects and cryptids.

No claim is made in the source material that the sphere is a real object, and none is advanced here. The tale joins a long tradition of stories in which men who have seen a war, and presumably a good deal else, are sent to a quiet corner of the world to do an ordinary job, and find on the first evening that the evening has other plans.