Astronaut Edgar Mitchell says alien beings have visited earth.
All right, I'm willing to give Ed the benefit of the doubt on that one. After all he walked on the moon so give the guy a little credit over the rest of the crazies. But then he takes the claim a little too far by saying that their visits have been "repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades."
Holy moly, Ed. With the possible exception of North Korea, governments in this day and age can't keep even their "Top Secret" documents from being published on the Internet and in newspapers. In the United States the one sure way to get a top secret document published is to classify it as such. So I'm quite sure there's been no cover up of alien visitations in the U.S. Sorry, Ed but your credibility takes a hit on that part and that brush paints a wide swath.
His allegation brought up a personal memory for me though. One very late night in the late eighties I was driving from Las Vegas to the high desert of California. Those of you who might have done that drive know it's on I-15 and it's a really desolate area after you get out of Vegas. I was in the high desert on a long business trip including a weekend. Along with some business associates I decided to hit Vegas and we drove up early Saturday and came back very late Saturday night. We didn't leave Vegas until about eleven pm. At about midnight or so and in the middle of the Mojave Desert it was as dark as dark could be. There were no cities or anything that provided light except the cars on the interstate. Just take my word for it that driving in that blackness felt a little spooky.
But it really got spooky when the whole desert seemed to light up instantly and stay that way for about ten or fifteen seconds. We went from pitch dark to something approaching sunrise or sunset--except there was no sun. It scared the shit out of all of us because it was so sudden, so bright and we had no warning. Then just as quick as it came it went.
We were really totally spooked at that point and someone mentioned an alien landing. I didn't think that but I had no answer for what happened. We turned on the radio to try to find out and got nothing. Zippo.
I can tell you the remaining hours of that drive were pretty weird. None of us could figure out what happened and the mystery of it with no radio announcements made it worse. We all tried to find a rational explanation but there just wasn't any. As soon as I made it back to my hotel room I flipped on the tube. There was no news at all about anything happening in the desert between Vegas and there. I went to bed totally mystified at what had happened.
But the next morning I turned on the tube and the local news had a report about it. It turned out that Vandenberg Air Base had made a missile test the previous night. Vandenberg was a long ways from where we were that night but apparently the light from it was strong enough to cause what we saw. I was relieved though because I finally had a rational explanation. Not all my buddies were though. A couple of them said it was a cover story for an alien landing or departure.
I think it wasn't that. In fact I'm sure it wasn't that. But Edgar Mitchell might disagree.
July 24, 2008 in
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I was about to type "Nuclear test, dude--hope your car was lead-lined." Then I read to the end of the post.
Still sounds like a nuclear test.
Have you seen the latest Indiana Jones flick? It has (arguably) the funniest Indy line of the entire series. Indy finds himself standing in a flimsy "test house" (complete with dummy human figurines) on a gunnery range in Nevada when suddenly sirens start to wail and a countdown begins.
Indy says, "This can't be good."
No spoilers--what happens next has to be seen to be believed.
Posted by: Pete (Alois) at Jul 25, 2008 10:32:39 PM
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