We were tipped off by a news item coupled with the creditors’ lawsuits against Peter Hight, our synchronicity sensitives finding a common link between the two. The news item said that the FCC was investigating a pirate radio station somewhere in the Los Feliz area. It was buried in the local section of the Times. The creditors were a foundry, a warehouse and a sculpture studio, trying to get paid for some very large pieces they had made. We tracked the warehouse down and with a little persuasion convinced the landlord to let us in.
Inside was an orrery – a moving sculpture, a representation of the solar system. It was about 30 feet high, the peak poking out of the warehouse skylights. A gargantuan thing, but it moved without a sound. All nine planets and their moons, the asteroid belt, and a few other unidentified cosmic objects were represented. Great bronze balls swirled around the center spike of steel and wood, painted a most royal purple. The pinnacle was in fact a miniature radio telescope, pointed straight up, and it was still on, receiving information from the heavens. What is most interesting about the orrery – apart from it having been built in the first place – is that the orbits of the planets are precisely and mathematically laid out with an error tolerance approaching perfection.
Our investigation into Peter Hight is pending, but from all appearances he appears to be an unlikely candidate to construct such a thing. A dropout of community college.