[Quix]

THANKS.

Interesting.

Your take on it?

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[sharktrager]

Please take me off the list

[janetgreen]

Their scientists will at least admit publicly that UFOs are real, unlike the stories coming from our government. I choose to believe that they are real and are watching Earth, for what purpose I'm not sure. Fascinating...

[Ff--150]

While in the Navy in '75, while going to avionics school near Memphis, a shipmate was taking me to Memphis to see my future wife. On a dark, deserted road a reddish-orange light about the size of a baseball zipped past.

Sitting beside me was a linebacker-sized shipmate who flew into my lap in the backseat. To say he was scared witless is an understatement.

My shipmates in front asked what in the *&## was wrong with him, and I squeaked, "That #@%^ light!!!!!!!!!!"

What light??! they asked, baffled. The man in my lap related what light for about an hour, gratefully scrambling out my lap, and loosening that bear-hug so I can write this today.

Years later I told this to my now-deceased neighbor who was in WWII, and worked on the B-29 that bombed Nagasaki, to which he repied, "You know, I've never told anyone myself, but in '44 I was station in Dennison, Texas, and one night the same thing happened to me." He saw an orange light fly by his car on a dark, lonely road himself--while his passenger slept. LOL!

[WorkingClassFilth]

I am an unbeliever. UFO's, as entities from another planet, are beyond my abilities or that of favored beverages to make believable.

1) I see nothing in the world that does not obey the basic laws of the universe. UFO's do so all the time.

2) I have several problems with the theory of evolution, not the least of which is mutation probability, complexity and order in energy and major league biochemical explanations that must precede any of the 'fossil record' crapola.

3) Because of #2, I have greater problems with the idea of other places where star-hopping visitors have risen from the primordial slime. Seems to me to be a 'lightning strike twice' conundrum, even though probability theoretically says the chances are the same.

4) For all of the Indy 500 stuff that UFO sightings seem to come in, I am perplexed why we don't see a steady stream of convoys of the suckers from the far realms of the solar system.

5) Reports from these deals are wrapped up in occult junk all the time. People who buy into the boogerman always buy into UFO's. It just goes together like bacon on a cheeseburger.

6) I reports from the 'witnesses' are credible and the UFO's do exist, then we better get our sh*t together because these are very kinky freaks that are coming to our shores for their pan-galactic vacations. Welcoming them would be the last thing I would want to do - nuke them is more in order.

7) I despise their ideology. In between buggering men and women with probes, they spout the same inane 'one-world-one-universe-kumbaya' crap that Lefties do here on earth. I am waiting for a comprehensive, longitudinal study that correlates eye-witness contacts with political orientation. I don't think I'd be suprised by the results.

8) I never outgrew the excitment of going to the drug store to get the new editions of my favorite comics. I loved my superheroes battling freaks from the far reaches of the universe. I did, however, come to realize that that monthly pleasure had nothing substantive to do with the actual world that I lived in.

How's that for starters?