Eddie Middleton seems like a reasonable guy. He's 53, mild-mannered, and an adjunct professor of philosophy and ethics at Shelby State Community College and State Tech. In 1977, during a meteor shower, he caught a glimpse of a football-shaped object in the night sky through binoculars, just for a few seconds, before it disappeared. Friends scoffed and offered explanations after the fact, but Middleton insists that it was a bona fide sighting. Apparently, whether or not we're alone in the universe, Middleton isn't.
Aliens are certainly all the rage.
At times, it's difficult to tell which way the influence runs, whether the fascination has fed the media or the other way around. The way they do it, it doesn't capture my interest that much. There's something phony about it. The more we talk about the conference and the latest in E.T. theory, the more I get the same feeling. There might be aliens, and maybe they even drop in from time to time.