From: rj@incam.new-orleans.la.us (Ray Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: UFO "October Surprise" and USA TAKEOVER?!
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 11:02:48 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Camelot BBS, New Orleans, LA

randolph@est.enet.dec.com (Tom Randolph) writes:

> - more gun stuff deleted -
> 
> People, will you -please- take this to an appropriate newsgroup? You've been
> asked nicely, rudely, and indifferently several times. My
> courteous.little.netperson repertoire is about exhausted.
> -Tom R.   randolph@est.enet.dec.com

I would like to apologize for my own duplicity in continuing this on-going
thread about gun ownership.  Whenever I read this newsgroup, all I ever
see are messages about guns and gun ownership.  I forget this is
the "alt.alien.visitors" newsgroup and reply to some of the messages I
read.  I am new to Usenet and only recently began monitoring this
newsgroup.  In fact, I was fed this newsgroup by mistake, but I think
I would enjoy it.  Unfortunately, I haven't read a single message about
alien visitors (alien to our country or alien to our planet) since I
began monitoring the newsgroup.  I don't have anything to post about
alien visitors myself, but will make an attempt.  Perhaps, others will
pick up the thread.  Even if we still get cross-posts from other
newsgroups, we can skip them.

Okay, let's see.  Once upon a time...

Seriously (assuming you are serious about alien visitors), has anyone
had any personal experiences with alien visitors?  Would you be willing
to share same?  Why don't you post them.

I have had a few (at the time) eerie and chilling experiences but I
believe they were all later explained.  Once, I was on the heliport
atop an off-shore oil rig, late at night.  I saw a very bright light
which, at first, was moving at a nice rate of speed.  Then it simply
stood still.  It didn't move a bit for a long time (or at least it
didn't seem to).  After quite a while (at least five minutes), it
changed course and began moving again.  Then it began to descend and
disappeared as it neared the earth.

I said "an off-shore oil rig".  I would have been more correct in
saying an "inland drilling barge".  I wasn't actually off-shore, but
was in Lake Borgne near New Orleans.  After processing all the data,
so to speak, I realized what it was.  It was a small airplane which
had been moving at an angle to me.  It had changed course and came
directly at me.  It was in a landing pattern for Lakefront Airport.
It had slowed its approach in preparation for landing.   The change
in speed in addition to its change in direction coupled with the
night time sky, the lack of other objects for comparison and an
active imagination really had me believing I was observing some sort
of UFO.  Of course, by definition, I was.  However, it later became
an IFO (Identified Flying Object).

Okay.  I changed the thread.  Now it's up to someone else.  If we
can't stop them from cross-posting, we can, at least, "take care
of business", so to speak.

Later

Ray

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