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.
There is a difference?
I'll have to have a few shots of Smirnoff triple distilled and think about that.
Here in Ohio we have had undeniable proof that aliens live among us for many years now:


Silly ... shift branes to one temporal valance higher and you can avoid all the square root garbage. It’s like the reverse of flattening 3-D onto a 2-D surface, you bubble 4-D onto our 5-D brane. Kaluza-Klein already did it for you.
I'm going to bed ... fair winds to you all, and good night.
Night, and I hope you find your way back. ;)
JPB,all
FYI:
the actor with the glasses on your posting, was George Fenneman, he was the announcer that worked with Groucho Marx on the TV quiz show, “You Bet Your Life”..
Yes.
Got links to Steyn, et al, that indicate this?
It was a joke.

I am surprised I have not seen this video (chase burns’) http://www.vimeo.com/4336805 linked on any related fr threads. It is certainly one of the more puzzling videos I have seen recently. it has frequent switches in view to give foreground reference, and the light-gain change at 50 seconds shows a good bit more detail, at the cost of resolution.
I have read comments that people wonder why more videos of UFO’s aren’t popping up, given the proliferation of cameras/cell phone cameras, but then you look at this video and some other recent ones, and it appears that this is indeed happening.
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