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My stand...sure why not. Otherwise, how could the Indies have the cadlestick or the art that can only be viewed by the sky.

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This has been explained many times. In fact the task has been replicated without the use of aircraft.

I believe in life on other planets; I don't believe any alien life forms have visited the Earth.

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No I DONT believe in aliens.They are always reported in some out of the way hick town.Why wouldnt they visit the big city their are "weirder aliens" there? ???
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I live in New York and can tell you that even if there were aliens here, we wouldn't realize!  I saw this really wacky creature yesterday who hardly even passed notice and only generated a few chuckles.   ;D

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I live in New York and can tell you that even if there were aliens here, we wouldn't realize!  I saw this really wacky creature yesterday who hardly even passed notice and only generated a few chuckles.   ;D
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Hey I'm from NYC too and I totally agree with you. I once say a guy walkin down 3rd ave + 11th with nothin on but a rope strung right up his kiester. It was like a twisted medieval thong! And you know what? No one cared, except me I laughed myself silly ;D

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Does anyone believe that UFO's exist?

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Of course they exist, earth-person  :o

:P :P :P

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I agree Hairspray  ;D.

By the way, tell me what you saw BrianMaddoxgirl? 8)
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I would - If only I knew who Brian Maddox was !!!!

Hmmmmmmmmmm  its a thing I have yet to reveal to the WWW world.  Actually I have probably told like 3 friends in my whole life.

oh what the heck.  

For many many yars I assumed what I remembered was a dream.  

From 1968 to 1974 we lived in a caravan and we moved towns every couple of weeks for dads work (he hooked up telephone lines and switchboards etc for towns).  Mum would drive the valiant and tow the caravan and dad would be up ahead driving the 5 tonne truck.  Anyway - this "event" happened when I was about 4.  We were driving between towns way out in the middle of no where and were about 300km from any town in any direction.

Mums story is:  a light had been following her for hours.  It was just a bit too high up off the road to have been a vehicle and it stayed an exact distance behind her the whole time - she slowed right down and sped up etc  but it stayed the same distance away.  So eventually she sped up and caught up with dad and signalled to him to pull over for the night.  So they set up camp and mum watched for the light - there was only one road and if it was a vehicle it would have had to eventually drive past.  It didnt.

My memory:  I woke up in the middle of the night in the caravan.  My brother and I slept in bunk beds that went across the width of the van with windows at each end.  I looked out the window and felt that I could see dad outside pumping up the trucks tyres with the big T shaped air pump.  I felt that I could see the moons reflection on the metallic surface of the T going up and down.  So I got out of bed and went to mums bed at the other end of the van (it was a 32 foot van).  I said "mum why is dad out pumping up the tyres", she said "he isnt, silly, he is right here, see. now get back in bed".  So I went back to my bunk and again looked out the window.  Coming towards the window were a great crowd of naked "children" - they were peering in and beckoning me to come outside.  I pulled the curtains closed and probably eventually fell asleep.

Ever since then I have not been able to sleep in a room where the bed in near or under a window, nor had a window left open at night.

Later when Close Encounters was released and I saw it at the drive in - I said to myself "there are the same children".  I never told anyone about it.  Not a soul.

Then one night a couple of years ago mum and I were drawing a time line of all our travels back in those days - I was trying to work out where we had been where certain childhood memorys occured - so we sat and drew up a chart of all dads jobs and the towns we lived in and filled it in with events and memories.  I asked mum about nights where we would have slept by the road instead of a town and she was remembering dates in her head.  

Suddenly she says "oh we slept by the road the night I couldnt get away from that light" and I said - did I get out of bed looking for dad that night and she said yes you did, you kept insisting dad was outside and you wouldnt go to sleep because you thought children were there to take you away.  So we told each other our memories and it all fit together.  She said she looked outside and didnt see the children - but she saw the light nearby still.

so - it feels a bit weird to type it all out for the first time.  Strange - cos when I have discussed the various ghosts in our homes it doesnt bother me at all.  But this has always freaked me out more than ghosts and I have always found it easier not to discuss it.

Yet I am fascinated by books on the subject etc.  I just dont read them at night cos it wakes up memories and I dont sleep !!