Posted on 06/06/2009 4:24:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono
"If, in fact, we are able to find life or to answer the question 'Are we alone?' then that certainly is grand enough and noble enough to be the enduring legacy of our civilization."
NASA statement
October 1999
The skies over Texas have been busy with spottings of unidentified flying objects in recent times, and I can't help but wonder if some of them might actually be visitors from a galaxy far, far away.
I'm sure that thought has crossed your mind, too, whether you want to admit it out loud or not. Just the chance that we are not alone is enough to pique anyone's interest.
Just days ago, a Continental Express pilot took off from Houston en route to South Carolina and had a weird experience not long after lifting off.
Reaching an altitude of 11,000 feet, still over Texas, the pilot suddenly radioed that a large object was flying 150 feet or so beneath him. The report I read on the Web site of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) didn't say what shape this thing was, but the pilot was shocked to see that it didn't show up on radar.
MUFON records indicate that another Continental Airlines pilot spotted a UFO in May of last year, very near the same area.
You don't need a map to discern that this puts these objects pretty close to our area.
On the same night that the Continental pilot was gazing wide-eyed at whatever it was, another man spotted a UFO in the skies over East Texas, MUFON says. This, according to the spotter, was a triangular-shaped craft.
And, yet another spotter saw three star-like objects over East Texas, traveling fast, then slow, then fast, on that same night.
In view of the spate of UFOs seen flying over the Stephenville, Texas, area last year, and other, less noted sightings since then, maybe we should be spending more time looking up.
MUFON's records show that the U.S. is by far the leader in sightings of UFOs, and Texas is always first or second among the states in the number of these.
Remember that guy in the old 1950s version of "The Thing?" At the end of the movie, he tells the whole world on the radio, "Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies"!
That could turn out to be sound advice.
Hey, I remember seeing that movie... :-)
But, I like the first picture better...
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I recently watched "Dreams With Sharp Teeth" featuring the ever-irascible S.F. author Harlan Ellison. He reserved his nastiest comments for directors and producers who ignore the original authors of movies and TV shows. They frequently behave as if the author doesn't exist and take all the creative credit -- no matter how much they've messed up the original writer's concept. His anger is justified, I think.
Um, then whom wrote on the wall in Belshazzar’s party central, when only the hand was visible to the room full of partiers? Whom was it that visited Daniel, Ezekiel, Gideon, Mary, etc.?
< Believe it or not, this was my wife about 35 pounds ago. I'm gonna hang a picture of Adrienne in front of her treadmill and tell her not to get off until she looks like this again.
Bad Viking! Bad Viking!
('Course, I was also built like Dick Durock about 35 pounds ago. LMAO)
Interesting to hear their voices. Regardless of whether they were actually abducted by aliens, these two people were very courageous to go through this ordeal with media considering the era in America for mixed racial couples! Barney was an astonishingly brave fellow.
I read it again today, with the commentary by Steyn et al.
Now I see the truth...we are not alone!!!
bodacious tatas.
One of the greatest movies of all time, and scary at the time. I remember watching it in the theaters and jumping at the appropriate times, etc. Nice to have a girl with you at the time. Another one was Creature from the Black Lagoon. Still, for sheer believability The Thing(as it was called then but has been since changed to “The thing from Outer Space”. The new one with Kurt Russell is “The Thing), was the best at that time!
That may be wrong, but here is the deal: We don't know what is possible and what isn't. 100 years ago, radio was just starting to make a splash. 200 years ago, telegraph had not been invented yet and if someone had suggested electric lights and radio, not to mention TV would be in homes across the nation people would have laughed their heads off. Jules Verne tapped into the fantasy of people and made several novels about impossible things that later became reality.
Who knows what is really possible. Anti-grav device? Possible, not known yet, but possible. Space time warp? Possible, not known how yet, but possible.
Never say never, never say that beings from other worlds couldn't be coming here, because we simply don't know. No evidence yet, but none that totally refutes the fact either.
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