Word: thudwunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Saucers have been reported over China, but we have been troubled by Flying Thudwunks-or, as the Chinese call them, Celestial Whang-bongs. Our one-eyed wash coolie, Yeh, sighted an unusual bright green Thudwunk two evenings ago whizzing across the thatched roofs of the native village next door to our house on Columbia Road-or, as the Chinese call it, Pan-yu Lu-and has become, as a result, a neighborhood hero...
...Thudwunk is shaped like two crossed chopsticks and apparently carries no pilot. Most of the time it spins like a windmill in a breeze, but every few minutes or so it pauses to reshape itself into two chopsticks in motion and tosses noodles from an altitude of eight or nine hundred feet. That, of course, is the really puzzling thing about the Flying Thudwunk-where does it get the noodles? Up until the time that it pauses and reshapes itself no noodles are visible at all. In fact, they aren't ever visible until they hit the Thudwunk-gazer...
...Some observers think that the whole thing is a mass hallucination brought on by local practical jokers throwing noodles over bamboo fences at unsuspecting neighbors while the neighbors look for Flying Saucers. However, with food as costly as it is, other observers doubt that anything except a Thudwunk would throw noodles. One possibly significant variation on this story came from Nanking, where a Thudwunk was observed throwing beef Stroganoff followed by kasha à la Gourieff. This has led inflammatory elements of the Chinese press to suggest that Thudwunks are the creation of a certain foreign power. The Chinese Air Force...
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