Aliens among us?

The very first thing I noticed was how normal everyone looked.

Oh, there was more than your usual percentage of bearded men. Ditto for guys with long hair. But in general, it looked like a tame gathering. I mean, no one was even in costume!

Somehow, I expected a UFO conference to be a little more flamboyant.

But things quickly picked up. For one thing, the community college auditorium was packed – people sitting in the aisles and standing in the back. About 60-70 UFO aficionados had been expected. More than 400 showed up. And more than a few of them totally believe that aliens from other planets have visited Earth.

Some of them also believe in ghosts and Bigfoot.

There were a number of knowledgeable speakers with impressive resumes, including the head of a local UFO group, a journalist from a national UFO magazine, and a college professor who has made it his life’s work to uncover the hidden memories of alien abductees through hypnosis.

There was also some cool eye witness testimony from a few very sane-looking people who had seen UFOs flying over their homes at night.

It was an extremely interesting afternoon! Here's a recap of what I learned:

• Aliens have been visiting Earth since the 1920s.

• They fly in aircraft that can change direction and speed very quickly.

• Some spaceships have been recovered by the military, but the brass isn’t talking.

• For whatever reason, it is extremely difficult for a human civilian to take a decent photograph of a UFO.
  

• The military has been reverse engineering military aircraft from alien spaceships.

• If scientists don’t acknowledge the alien presence on Earth it’s because they are not looking at the data logically.

• Aliens have abducted a lot of people over the years.
  

• Abductees’ memories are mostly wiped out afterward, but can be recovered through hypnosis.

• Many of the abductees have had similar experiences, even people who have never heard any other abductees’ stories.

• Aliens can control humans’ minds.

• UFO believers do not have a high opinion of Bill Nye the Science Guy (though I was unsure whether the heckling was directed at Bill! Bill! Bill! himself, or whether Dr. Nye was simply a symbol of the entire disbelieving scientific community).

• Aliens do a lot of reproductive experimentation on humans, gathering sperm and egg samples.

• Aliens do this because they are creating a hybrid alien/human race.

• Over the years, the alien/human hybrids are becoming more and more human-looking.

• There are a lot of hybrids living on Earth now, posing as humans. They could be your next door neighbor (I always suspected…).

• The aliens are probably planning an invasion of Earth, and the hybrids have probably been stationed here to help when the time comes.

• Some UFO believers think this invasion will be a good thing. Others are not so sure.

None of this was really a news flash. It was all stuff I learned watching the X-Files.

But this WAS the first time I’d heard the theories seriously presented by intelligent people in a non-fictional environment.

Am I now a believer?

Well, not really, but I have to admit, it’s more than a little spooky. While even the most hardened UFO enthusiasts admit that 90% of UFO sightings/abductions are false, there’s still that 10% that can’t be explained.

And that ½ of 1% that REALLY can’t be explained.

So….here's what I took away from my first UFO conference:

*Something* weird and unexplainable has happened to many people over many years. As for what it is…I haven’t a clue. But it sure inspires story ideas!

Vampire conference, anyone?

Joy




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