View Comments It’s not often that I cover the same topic in consecutive columns, but cicadas seem to be the gift that keeps on giving. The overwhelming influx of email questions and comments on the topic seems to indicate that there’s more discussion to be had. So for this follow-up edition, I thought it would be good to spend a little time separating fact from fiction. First, I’d like to immediately address an issue that seems to have been completely missed by the hard-core, investigative journalists across our fair land. You may have noticed that just as the beastly little Brood Xers were emerging from the ground to wreak havoc on our everyday lives, officially sanctioned government sources stopped referring to Unidentified Flying Objects — they now all refer to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.