Post by auntym on Nov 25, 2012 13:05:21 GMT -6
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AT LARGE: UFO column generated some close encounters[/color]
By Tommt Stevenson
Published: Sunday, November 25, 2012
I saw a UFO once.
Or maybe not.
It was shortly after I moved to Tuscaloosa in the mid-1970s and found myself involved in a weekly Sunday afternoon volleyball game at a friend’s house in Mount Olive in the western part of the county.
The games usually ended with some sort of meal and fellowship, and it was rare to get home before dark, as it was during my possible Encounter of Some Kind.
I was headed east on U.S. Highway 82 on a moonless night when I saw what looked to be an unusually large and bright light about 30 degrees above the horizon at 10 o’clock high.
It seemed to be just sitting there, waiting, when a thought flashed through my tired mind: If you really were a visitor from another planet, you probably would not come barging in on mankind as in all those bad sci-fi movies of the ’50s.
No, you would probably show up discretely and wait around until you were given some sort of signal that there was an intelligent life form (go ahead, you can insert your joke at my expense here) of some sort willing to make first contact.
So I flashed my headlights on the old TR-7 a couple times, and lo and behold, the light in the sky flashed back. Or so it seemed.
In any event, as if on cue, it did begin a slow descent toward the ground in the general direction of the Tuscaloosa airport, toward which I quickly detoured to the southeast.
I can’t say that I found anything other worldly as I drove around the mostly deserted roads north of the river and, truth be told, I did see a helicopter near one set of hangers that may, or may not, have explained the light I saw clearly blink after I gave the first signal.
Still, the notion that if extraterrestrial life were to visit our planet, it would probably do so as unobtrusively as possible and would seek out people receptive to its presence, whether they were little green men or otherwise.
I wrote a column similar to this one making the case for my theory of benign contact with friendly terrestrials.
And that’s when the phone calls and even visits to the old Tuscaloosa News building on Sixth Street began in those pre-Internet days.
CONTINUE READING: www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20121125/NEWS/121129911/1215/NEWS06?p=2&tc=pg[/color]
AT LARGE: UFO column generated some close encounters[/color]
By Tommt Stevenson
Published: Sunday, November 25, 2012
I saw a UFO once.
Or maybe not.
It was shortly after I moved to Tuscaloosa in the mid-1970s and found myself involved in a weekly Sunday afternoon volleyball game at a friend’s house in Mount Olive in the western part of the county.
The games usually ended with some sort of meal and fellowship, and it was rare to get home before dark, as it was during my possible Encounter of Some Kind.
I was headed east on U.S. Highway 82 on a moonless night when I saw what looked to be an unusually large and bright light about 30 degrees above the horizon at 10 o’clock high.
It seemed to be just sitting there, waiting, when a thought flashed through my tired mind: If you really were a visitor from another planet, you probably would not come barging in on mankind as in all those bad sci-fi movies of the ’50s.
No, you would probably show up discretely and wait around until you were given some sort of signal that there was an intelligent life form (go ahead, you can insert your joke at my expense here) of some sort willing to make first contact.
So I flashed my headlights on the old TR-7 a couple times, and lo and behold, the light in the sky flashed back. Or so it seemed.
In any event, as if on cue, it did begin a slow descent toward the ground in the general direction of the Tuscaloosa airport, toward which I quickly detoured to the southeast.
I can’t say that I found anything other worldly as I drove around the mostly deserted roads north of the river and, truth be told, I did see a helicopter near one set of hangers that may, or may not, have explained the light I saw clearly blink after I gave the first signal.
Still, the notion that if extraterrestrial life were to visit our planet, it would probably do so as unobtrusively as possible and would seek out people receptive to its presence, whether they were little green men or otherwise.
I wrote a column similar to this one making the case for my theory of benign contact with friendly terrestrials.
And that’s when the phone calls and even visits to the old Tuscaloosa News building on Sixth Street began in those pre-Internet days.
CONTINUE READING: www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20121125/NEWS/121129911/1215/NEWS06?p=2&tc=pg[/color]