UFO's and Aliens

Well, I admit it. Tonight (actually in the wee hours of the morning) I was perusing sites about UFO's and aliens. Not the kind who sneak across the border to find work, but the kind who zip around in flying saucers and apparently sometimes crash and such.

I'm not sure how I got sucked into the search. It had something to do with military experts testifying that there has been a big coverup regarding space ships and aliens for decades, and how these ships were seen beaming lights into our nuclear arsenals, somehow disabling their launching capabilities. Or something. So, you know... a few clicks, and I'm looking at "dead alien" pictures, and autopsies, and different photos of alleged spacecraft.

One thing struck me right away. The UFO pictures taken in the 1960's show spacecraft that are a lot more clunky looking than the more recent pictures. Apparently, aliens like to buy a newer model space craft every year or so. Some of the classic space craft have a certain appeal to them, kind of like the old Cadillacs of the 50's. You know... solid, no discernible fins as yet, a little tank-like but ultimately functional and luxurious in a practical kind of way. The new ones are more modern... sleek, with fluid lines and much fancier lights. I don't know if the old classics are still up there zipping around or not. Maybe the aliens, like the Japanese, are required by law to upgrade every year. Maybe that's what's actually on the dark side of the moon, that the astronauts ostensibly saw and couldn't talk about. A giant wrecking yard full of old space ships, bunches of clunkers from the fifties and sixties that nobody wants to drive any more.

The autopsy picture I saw of an alien revealed that they don't have much skeletal structure, or muscle for that matter. Apparently you just kind of peel back their "skin" and there's a hodgepodge of gloppy lookin' stuff in there that vaguely resembles stew meat. Ahh, mysteries abound.

Lest you think I am totally skeptical of the existence of aliens... well, I'm not. Matter of fact, the odds of there being alien life forms are much better than the odds of there not. And I don't doubt some could have visited here, or even kinda keep an eye on the place. It's entirely possible.  I don't trust 'em much, mind you. But by now, I don't really trust anyone very much. I've been around too long, and figure if I can't trust people born on the same planet as me, there's no reason to trust someone born in an entirely different galaxy. I figure E.T. was a con man.

This brings to mind one time in my wayward youth... when I was still in high school, actually. I was with a group of friends, driving on a dirt road south of Denver. We were, uhhh... in an altered state. Which makes one perfectly ripe for alien sightings. And sure enough, as we were driving down this bumpy dirt road in the twilight, a giant orb rose over the horizon. "Holy shit! What's that??" one friend asked incredulously. "Wow," said another, as that was all he could get out of his mouth.  I pulled the car over to take a closer look. "What the fffffff....." exclaimed another. And I, always the party pooper, looked up and said, "Uhhhh... it's the moon." Which of course it was. It was big, and orange-ish, and orb like, and a little more imbued with life when viewed in an altered state. But it was, nonetheless, the moon.

"Ohhh," my friends exclaimed all at once. "Yeah.... it's the moon....."

And people wonder why Americans don't do that good on test scores. If you're so wrecked you can't tell the moon from a UFO, trigonometry is gonna throw you for a loop.

I took care of a gentleman with Alzheimer's disease a few years back. Eventually he passed away, as we all do. He was a retired Air Force officer, and at one point he had actually been in charge of the base near  Roswell, New Mexico. He could remember stuff that happened a long time ago. He just couldn't necessarily remember stuff that happened a few minutes ago. And I asked him, point blank, one time if there was evidence of truth to the persistent rumors that aliens had been found near Roswell. 

"Not that I ever saw," he smiled with the childlike honesty of the Alzheimer's afflicted.

Of course, he could have been part of the giant cover up plot...