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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:53:00 -0400 Archived: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:53:00 -0400 Subject: God Aliens And Strippers Source: The Guelph Mercury - Ontario, Canada http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/328650 May 16, 2008 God, Aliens And Strippers Scott Tracey Guelph Mercury I have seen, at least once in person and more recently on an amateur videotape, UFOs. I won't go so far as to suggest I've seen spaceships, but they certainly were, in the truest sense, unidentified flying objects. When I was about 12, my family was driving in two vehicles along the South Service Road, adjacent to the QEW, near Grimsby. My dad, who was driving our car, and my uncle, who was leading in his own car, both suddenly pulled over to the shoulder at the same time. We all got out to look at this weird round thing floating in the clear blue sky. It seemed to hover silently in one place east of us, then quickly zipped over where we were standing and then stopped and appeared to hover again to our west. After several seconds, it sped away northbound toward Lake Ontario and like that, it was gone. Even then, I knew it was no plane or helicopter, and more than a quarter-century later I still remember the encounter vividly. My next experience with an unidentified flying object came about a decade ago. I was working in our Fergus bureau when I got a call from a farmer up near Arthur, telling me about this strange thing that had flown over his fields a day earlier. It was a slow summer day, so I took a drive up to see what he had. His jerky video depicted a pipe-shaped, black or dark grey object against a clear blue sky. The object seemed to be flying horizontally, then would suddenly switch its position so it appeared to be flying on one end, then would lean over at a roughly 45-degree angle, then back to horizontal and so on, all the while never changing its apparent flight path, before quickly disappearing. I don't really know what to make of either incident, but I noted with some interest they are not unlike some of the accounts contained in approximately 1,000 pages of formerly classified UFO documents released this week by Britain's National Archives. I do, however, think we would have to be pretty naive to believe that of the approximately 300 known planets, this tiny blue dot is the only one with life on it. Even the Vatican's chief astronomer -- yes, the Vatican has a chief astronomer -- conceded recently there could be intelligent life on other planets, noting to suggest otherwise would be to put limits on God's "creative freedom." So the obvious issue is this: How to reconcile witness reports of eight-foot-tall, skinny, green-skinned, bulbous-headed aliens with the notion of "created in His image." Speaking of clumsy segues... <snip> Scott Tracey's column appears Fridays. He can be reached at 519-823-6068 or by e-mail at stracey.nul [Lead from Stuart Miller @ http://www.alienworldsmag.com] Listen to 'Strange Days... Indeed' - The PodCast See: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/subscribers/
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