I do! I think they are there watching us, trying to communicate with us, but it is complicated to get through our barriers. I have read alot of books where aliens are creeepy scary things. I think maybe it has been our perception of them. Perhaps if our perception of them changes, then they will change to us. Surely we must be really different from each other. Difference is always scary isn't it?

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

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Well Tren, I'll be the first to admit that I DO believe in aliens!! I don't think that it's very realistic of us to think that earth is the only inhabited planet. I myself have seen objects flying overhead in the nite sky that absolutely could not be planes!!! There have been several documented cases here in Maine of folks being abducted.

Have you ever read the book "Communion" by Whitley Strieber? Now that made me nervous since it seemed that not all aliens were friendly! But they did return him to his family. Supposed to be a documented true story!

I think I'd really be interested in meeting some aliens...after all, they can't be any worse than some of the "summah people" that come up here :-)!!

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

I'm with you guys...I believe. Budd Hopkins has also written interesting accounts of alien "encounters". And Zecharia Sitchin has a VERY thought-provoking series on ancient history, what we consider myths, and the possiblity of alien contact way back when.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001

I'm not sure of my opinion on extra-terrestrials, and that in itself is odd, because I'm one of the rare folks who've heard a UFO.

Yes, heard, not seen. It took many years for the whole story to come out on what that was out in the back woods, but apparently the strange humming noise that my mother and I heard when I was 12 was indeed, a UFO. I pinpointed the date because my father had left on a hunting trip and only my mother and I were home and she wanted to know if that was my horse humming out back. I told her that horses under no circumstances hum. We didn't see anything, and didn't think much of it until years later the subject came up in a strange way and it turned out that on the same night, another woman in our town saw a UFO out in her back pasture (the general direction we heard it from) on that very same night. She never told anyone about it because she was afraid that she'd be ridiculed.

This was at a time when there were a number of UFO sightings taking place in Wisconsin. At that same time, a man in a town about 25 miles from here had a close encounter of the third kind -- face to face meeting with what he said were aliens in a saucer-shaped craft that set down in his back pasture and wanted water. He gave it to them, and they gave him some of the breakfast they were cooking, which looked quite a lot like semi-burnt pancakes.

I know that because they were on display at a local grocery store and I got to see them when I was 11 years old!! It was very heady stuff to think about the possibilities of aliens (Star Trek was new on television about that time), but at the same time, it was a very decidedly disjointed feeling to be standing in the aisle of a grocery store, looking at food given to a man by alien beings.

What was so odd about it was that they were sitting on a plain white paper plate, on one of those little Tv tray tables at the end of an aisle back near the dairy case with a sign up explaining about them. My mom and I scrutinized them closely. I turned to my mother and said

"Gee Mom, those look a lot like YOUR pancakes!"

We both had to laugh. They did. My mother (as Joy has mentioned) had the family reputation of being High Priestess of Burnt (Food) Offerings, and she almost always managed to overcook some of the pancakes.

The man who claimed that aliens had given him pancakes was (or maybe still is) named Joe Simenton. You can read about his experience in a book entitled 'The W-Files', or maybe try a websearch on him (I now intend to, I haven't thought about this in some time). He was so ridiculed and disbelieved by people locally that he became quite angry and as far as I know, refuses to speak on the subject to this day, but before he began his silence, he did declare that he didn't care WHAT anyone else thought, he KNEW what had happened.

People accused him of seeking attention, being drunk, and on to being crazy, so that is why our neighbor didn't want to tell anyone what she'd seen. Me, I've just heard one.

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001

Joy , your story is so funny and so interesting and so cool. I have been going to different web sites and finding information on U.F.O.s Well I guess I have been doing a too much alien surfing, or else I have adequately prepared myself and am now ready for contact.

Last evening as I laid down to sleep I asked my Jim what the buzzing sound was in the background, he said that it could be anything, and that is true, sometimes we can hear the Ralston plant down on 22, it's like a heaving monster and even miles down the road you can hear it's moanings. Or it could be some machine that some man is running in his garage, or the gas well down the road sometimes makes strange sounds.

So off to sleep I went. We were sleeping quitely , when

suddenly I found myself wide awake and sitting upright in bed without knowing why. Then my Jim awoke when there were three loud clashes, which we surmised to be the mailbox bashers,{ a series of teenage boys who get a thrill from baseball battling all the boxes on a rurel road.} The sound was really near tho. which was strange because our mailbox had never been bashed due to the fact that it was connected to the telephone pole in a way that was hard for them to bash. And also I could hear no car noise , no fastly geered get away, no roar of a normal teenage car. I commented that they had an awfully quiet car.

Well, Jim decided that it was the bashers and desperately grasping for his needed sleep he settled back into a slumber.

Then I got an urgent urge to go to the restroom which was unusual for me at 12;30 in the night. So I got my robe and I tiptoed as quietly as I could across 100 yr old pine floors, out of our bedroom and across Bre's where our dog Laddy greeted me, as Bre keeps him with her when she goes to bed after I.

So Laddy and I headed for the steps and were halfway down when Laddy abruntly stopped, ears back, nose sniffing, body tense. I really had to go to the bathroom, so burglers or no burglers I was pushing him from behind to go forward.

It was really strange behavior for Laddy not to want to go down the steps. But I figured all the doors were locked and he was probably still smelling the bashers, who had been by a moment before. So I looked beind the door to the bathroom before I went in without Laddy, just to make sure no one was there, the whole time I was in the bathroom, Laddy was standing outside the door, growling a little, anxious.

Laddy and I checked the othere four rooms of the house, just to make sure, but now he really wanted to go outside, so I said OK, Laddy lets go see if they got our mailbox. So we went outside and while Laddy was doing his sniff sniff thing, I shone the light on our mailbox which was completley unbashed, so Lad and I walked on down the road in the misty, left over full moon lit ,night. The neighbors box was unbashed. I noticed that the hum that I had heard earlier was gone. In the distance I heard someone whistle for their dog.

As we got back toward the front of our house Laddy picked up a scent and went racing towards the pine tree area of the yard, where he ran in circles around a large spot. Well it was getting cold and I was a bit spooked so I called Laddy and we went back up to bed.

I have yet to look at the spot that Laddy circled.

But I had dreams of aliens for the rest of the night, aliens short, and green with huge depthfull eyes, eyes that swam like black and stary universes.

I also had a dream where I tied Laddy up to go into a house with some friends and when I came out , a big black dog was tied up with my Laddy, and two men were walking away and saying we gave your dog some company, but when I looked closer I saw that the dog that I thought was Laddy wasn't Laddy at all, it was an imposter that looked just like Laddy, but I could tell when I looked into his evil eyes.

I found Laddy lying on the ground where the two dogs had conquered him. I took my Laddy away to my childhood home and there I called the vet that we have now, and Laddy had a broken leg and a few other injurys but he healed back up.

During one of my dreams I awoke to feel a new mole on my chest that had not been there before, and I wondered if the aliens had implanted in me.

grinTren

Ok I promise not to think so much about aliens today!

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001

After that story, Tren, I think I'll be staying awake quite late tonight!!!

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001

Sadly, I could find no entries dealing with Joe Simenton's alien encounter doing several searches, so don't waste your time looking for it.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2001

I drove 7 teen-age girls to a football game last night.

Yes, I believe in aliens.

Not quite sure if it's me or them, however!

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2001

Polly,

I wonder the same thing about my daughter-in-law!!!

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2001

Funny ladies!

I don't believe in aliens. I don't disbelieve either. I feel it's extremely likely that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe (whether we have it here is debatable!). Whether any of them are visiting this planet/solar system -- I refuse to commit myself one way or the other.

Now, I DO believe in UFO's -- because UFO = unidentified flying object. See them all the time, along with URO's (unidentified running object) and USO's (unidentified swimming object).

Heh heh! I saw some program about legendary denizens of the big lakes, like Nessie (aka the Loch Ness Monster). There was a video tape of a supposed lake monster taken on some lake in the states, don't know if it was Lake Champlain (Champ is their monster) or the one out in British Columbia, Lake Okanagan where Ogopogo lives. Anyway, I watched this video of this "thing" swimming along, and you really could not tell what it was. Then it slapped it's tail and dove under. It was a beaver, IMO, though they never even mentioned the possibility in the program. The videotapers said that it was GREEN. You couldn't see that on the tape, but if it was, it was a trick of light, or it had algae or something on it. I always wondered why alligators are depicted as green, when they're really shades of brown. Until I saw a picture of one emerging up through an algae scum. It did look green.

Even though I think that was tape of a beaver, I do believe in Nessie. Julie even got a shot of her when we were in Scotland (1987 I think). All I got a picture of was Prince Charles [pout]. Maybe we could get Brother Dearest to scan her picture so we could post it.

Here's a link so that you can read about Nessie and get other links to the other less-well-known lake monsters: http://www.strangemag.com/nessie.home.html

I just read the one about Ogopogo and the guy writing it thought it was a beaver too. That doesn't mean that other's haven't seen a "monster" in different sightings.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2001

I think our evolution was helped by ETs. I read Chariots of the Gods when I was a teenager (and you know how our young minds can be influenced) The main thing that sticks in my mind is somewhere flat, Peru maybe (would probably help my reason if I could remember more facts), there were these little gullies in the ground that seemed to have no reason, until the first plane flew over and saw that they were actually very large pictures. They also really don't know how old the pyrimid is or how they were able to build it so exact and without any fire inside (no smoke residue) and that it lines up with certain stars. And isn't it funny that they mummified their dead for their long sleep with their possessions waiting for them.

I think I watch too much Far Scape and Voyager. But I love it.

-- Anonymous, September 10, 2001

Yeah, I believe in extra terrestrial life. Not necessarily green men from Mars, but aliens from other planets out there, sure. But after what happened yesterday in N. Y. and Washington D. C., the aliens must have "beat feet" to another galaxy. I sure would, if I could.

There had better be some aliens out there; if the human race is the most intelligent life in the universe . . .

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

Dee, I don't know exactly which pyramid you are referring to. However a well-written and easy to understand discussion of dating techniques and and how they work is in the September 2001 issue of National Geographic magazine. One of the very famous pyramids called The Pyramid of Khafre has been estimated at over 4,400 years old. We do have greater understanding of how they were built. Some archaelogist/anthropologists have studied that question very thoroughly and have come up with plausible methods. If you are interested in the pyramids, be sure to check out another easy to understand article is in the latest issue of Dicover magazine dated October 2001. I mention these magazines because they are easier reading than the professional journals.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

That's Discover magazine.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

Thanks Anne, I still think they aren't sure how old it really is. They also say that the pharaoh's face was added several thousand years after the orginal lion was built. Where I saw this, I can't remember, probably one of the Discover shows. It's just like they find something different about the dinosaurs everytime they turn around.

Hey, that reminds me, what if the climate of Earth was changed because of an impact of a spaceship that intergarated into our world?

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

The exact date the scientists pinpointed was 4,419 years ago, I believe. Pretty close. Also, please remember that even though older people's did not have our technology they had their own studies and would have been capable of the the skills needed to build such fine structures. Please consider the ancient chinese.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2001