> -=> On 12-28-97  08:36, Jack Sargeant said to Ivy Iverson,<=-
 > -=>"About [2/2] A surprize from the...,"<=-
 > Hi, Jack;
 >  JS> I had a flying saucer sighting in 1953.
 >  II> Was it a FLYING SAUCER, (specifically round and flat), or was it a
 >  II> UFO,
 >  JS> Round and flat.
 >  JS> I never said it was flown by aliens.
 > I didn't say you did, did I?  But if not, then by who?
I've never been willing to speculate on that. ...Flown by "us"
doesn't seem a likelyhood.
 >  II> Did it appear to be intelligently controlled?
 >  JS> Yes.
 >  II> please speculate on who was at the controls?
 >  JS> Me? Speculate?  OK... ...Little green men.
 > AH HAH!  So you now consider the POSSABILITY that it was being
 > controlled
 > by "someone/thing" from "somewhere else"?  Got any OTHER
 > possabilities?
Your next door neighbor?
 >  JS> I did say I didn't think we had that kind of technology back then.
 >  II> But you would have no way of knowing - unless you worked at Area 51,
 >  II> that is.  (And I'm reasonably sure that you didn't and didn't know
 >  II> anyone that did).
 >  II>  JS> Not all people who believe in UFOs think they are piloted by
 >  II> aliens.
 > Ya, I have one living next door to me... He would rather believe
 > that
 > a UFO is a flock of birds/airplane/temperature inversion/mirage/
 > cloud/
 > baloon/Venus/the Moon behind a cloud/meteor/an overdose of
 > painkillers/
 > someone's prank/his imagination than to CONSIDER the POSSABILITY,
 > (however
 > remote), that something which he and 1,000 other people saw and
 > showed
 > up on 8 different radars COULD be piloted by intelligent beings
 > from
 > "somewhere else"!!!  I really believe that if he were to see a UFO
 > land
 > in the back yard, saw occupants come out, talked with same, then
 > watched
 > them go back in and fly away, he would be over here accusing me of
 > putting
 > LSD in his drinking water or something.  (He denies this).
That would be >one< explanation for his actions of late.
 >  II> Granted.  However recent surveys indicate that a majority of
 >  II> Americans now believe that ET's do exist and that they ARE visiting
 >  II> us.
 >  JS> Do you?  What do you think they are here for?
To show us the error of our ways?
 > I do not discount the possability, in fact, I consider it a very strong
 > possability, based upon several things which I believe I have
 > elucidated here in the past.
It would be fun if you would elaborate on this a little.
 >  JS> It's fun to think about it though.
 >  II> Yes, and a lot of people do think about it, ranging from abductees
 >  II> to authors of books, movies, and folk who post in this echo.  
 >  JS> Our resident skeptics don't believe such.
 > Like the one next door... Is he a skeptic or an FNB?   :-}
The word loser comes to mind.
 > Catch you later... Happy New Year to you and yours!
 >    Ivy
Same to you.
Regards,
Jack
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