Duel in the Dark

A couple nights ago, I went on a night cross country flight to Filmore, UT (KFOM). IT was a pretty normal night flight for this time of year in Utah. There were some high clouds, but other than that it was calm and clear. About half way there we heard someone clicking the mike on their radio. For the non-pilots reading this, that means they were tuning on the lights at an airport nearby. Not having heard this guy make a position report, we craned our necks as far as we could scanning the night sky for this mystery airplane. After a few seconds of unsuccessful looking, we gave up on finding him and made a position report of our own on the radio. Now I know this sounds rather mundane, but someone has to be relatively close for you to hear them clicking the mike, so this guy was somewhere near by. The rest of our flight to Fillmore was uneventful except for this mysterious aircraft clicking his mike every five minutes or so. We kept reporting our position and eventually even asked for the mystery plane if they could hear us, and if so to make a report so we would know where they were. No answer ever came, but the clicking continued. We made it back to Salt Lake just fine, but the thought of this unidentified flying clicker remains in the back of my mind. This airplane is still out there somewhere. I’m going back to Fillmore tonight, so whoever you are watch out, I’ll be looking for you.