Interesting post Terra. I spent a lot of time observing in SoCal in the early/mid 1960's. I saw a few weird (inexplainable to me) things in the night and even the day. I lived about 100 miles north of Edwards Air Force Base and attributed my sightings to something new and very fast originating from the military...but. About that time I read Project Blue Book and questioned a passage that Venus would be mistaken by a fighter pilot. I mean I was just a kid then and I would even know the difference between a planet and a UFO. Although I was disappointed somewhat by the book and explanations, I tabled my interest/concern.
Not long after my dismissal of alien contact possibilities my best friend's mother from across the street claimed to have experienced a ride on a spaceship. OK, she was now out of the neighborhood Tuesday coffee clatch. Too weird for the Mom's (my mom) at that time. I wish I had asked her something about her experience.
Much later I met a gentleman who claimed in a lucid dream he was brought aboard an alien spacecraft and shown scroll energy technology that would power everything forever with no input. He spent the rest of his life trying to back engineer what he was shown. I bought a telescope from him. I kept contact for years and then he died. Our phone conversations were a bit red wine laden, awesome, and unfortunately I never quite understood this scroll tech. Maybe just as well. Oil companies putting a target on my back for fear they'd be out of business tomorrow. He thought they'd hindered his progress. Who knows? I doubt it...but.
So a few years ago I asked my sweetheart's father what he thought of the Navy pilots and the TIC TAC experience. He was a Viet Nam era Air Force pilot. Flew cover behind agent orange sprayings, flew big C- I forget transports carrying in equipment, carrying out dead bodies. The usual stuff in the business of war. His response was because they were Navy pilots their accounts weren't worth the time of day.
So my point is, {if I even have one) is this. When do we stop shunning neighbors from the coffee clatch for their beliefs, discounting others because they're in the wrong branch of the military to be flying airplanes, or listen to the lucid dream crazies over too much red wine? I wish the answer was easy.
Edited by strdst, 17 March 2025 - 01:58 AM.
