Do you believe that extraterrestrials exist? Do you think they have been here before, in ancient times? If the answer to these questions is “Yes” how do you fit that reality into your philosophical outlook? I, for one, would answer “Yes” to those questions. I have had two experiences in my life that lead me to believe this, and there is much written and archeological evidence to support it.
Most of us who live in or near a large city have never seen a clear picture of the night sky. I’m not talking about a view that is not hidden by clouds or fog or smog, but a view that is not obscured by ambient light! Ambient light has become such a problem for the Mount Palomar observatory, that all the communities within a given radius (something like 50 miles) are required to burn special bulbs in their street lights. To really appreciate the beauty of the night sky you have to get away from all that ambient light, and that is not always easy to do. Not easy, but well worth the effort.
As a young boy in the early 1950’s, I remember my “awe” laying on our front lawn and staring up at the heavens. I remember seeing the Milky Way for the first time and realizing that I was looking at the center of our galaxy! Stargazing became one of my favorite things to do, and whenever the nights were warm enough you could probably find me lying on the front lawn looking up. One night in 1954 I was doing just that when I had my first experience with something very unusual.
As I was fixating on individual points of light and wondering what it was like in those other worlds (thinking at the time that they were like planets), one of the stars suddenly moved! In a flash, it moved from one position to another. It moved at a speed comparable to a shooting star which we all know, is faster than any manmade objects. Not knowing how far away it was, I could not estimate how far it moved, but if I held my hands out at arms length, it move the distance of both of my hands, quite a large arc in the sky. It stopped for just a second or two, then moved again perpendicular to the first move but only about half the distance. Again, it stopped for just a second and then, with the same blazing speed, flew out of sight. I laid there dumbfounded. The whole episode lasted less than 5 seconds.
I never forgot that incident, and about five years later on one of my excursions to San Francisco, I witnessed another strange event; this time there were thousands of witnesses to corroborate my story. I was on a Greyhound bus with my brother Kenneth and we were approaching the Eastern side of the Oakland/Bay bridge. Looking across the bay toward the cliffs on the Frisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge, we saw a huge red/orange ball, outside the bay and half hidden by the cliffs. If its diameter can be estimated by its proximity to the Golden Gate Bridge, then the ball had a diameter of over 500 feet! We both saw it and wondered about it, but we were getting close to our destination and the subject took a backseat to our immediate needs.
We had almost forgotten about the red ball when we heard a report on television that evening that the mysterious object “shot up into the air at fantastic speed and disappeared.” That event can be confirmed by checking the archives of the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper.
Philosophically speaking, if we can’t even deal with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, how in the hell will we ever deal with the existence of extraterrestrials when they are eventually confirmed?
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