|
was notified from ground radar that something was on his tail. He chased a zooming light around the sky and it vanished. When he got on the ground and reported to his commander, he was told, "This did not happen," his report was deep-sixed and all records of it were expunged.
Could be they (the AF) were experimenting on HIM, with some new toy. Or....?
Lots of pilots and other trained observers have seen inexplicable things. And the more planets that are found orbiting suns, and the more water we find in our own solar system, and the more unusual non-oxygen-based lifeforms we find on earth (like those at the bottom of the sea, recently discovered), the more astronomically do the chances increase that we are not--and really cannot be (give the numbers, the probabilities)--alone in the universe, neither in our galaxy. It's only a matter of time before we connect with other sentient life not of this world. And it is not really that far out to believe that we have been visited, or are being watched.
Do you want to know something strange, that occurred to me? Human literature has always been written in the past or present tense--mostly past tense. ("Once upon a time..."). Set in the past, often distant past. And just before the 20th century began, the first stories began to be written about the FUTURE. We take this for granted, now. But this has been only a one hundred year time span from humans who were past-oriented, to humans who are routinely future-oriented. For tens of the thousands of years before H.G. Wells (I think was the first), we didn't really think about the future, except maybe to store up enough grain for next year. (And some indigenous cultures think and plan to the "7th generation.")
And now we have not only a whole library full of science fiction, guessing what it's going to be like a hundred or a hundred thousand years from now, but we have all the many Star Treks, and Star Wars, and Farscapes, and Battlestar Galacticas, and Stargates (well, somewhat about the past, but speculative about the impact of the past on a future contemporary discovery), and any number of future-oriented POPULAR entertainments.
Is that not strange? A major shift in human consciousness, and we hardly notice it or think about it.
|