Thank you for that Roger. I'd reckon there's a treasure-trove of found
poetry out there, if nothing else.
I saw a UFO myself once, in my teens, along with most of the
neighbourhood. It was an orange oval, at least three times the size of
a full moon, throbbing as it flew overhead, varying in luminescence
rhythmically. There were related reports all over the country that
night. It was a meteor, that ended up in the sea. I read later how the
displacement of air by these objects creates such an engine-like noise
as we heard. I could see how people could take these sights for
something inexplicable, alien, other.
Best
Dave
2008/5/14 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
>
> well, now the crazies really do have something to cling to.
>
> I used to work for RAF Intelligence in a roundabout fashion. The
> company I worked for had a contract with said unit. I used to debug
> code by testing it once a month in London. That's right, I'd make my
> changes without knowledge of their effect, then haul the tapes to some
> "secret" place off of Trafalgar Square to debug it once a month. These
> people had never heard of test data or unit testing.
>
> whilst I was there, I went to the toilet BY MYSELF. Bikini Black Alert
> was violated, and my contact was hauled before his boss and carpeted.
>
> RAF Intelligence really is an oxymoron. The only guy with intelligence
> was my contact. The rest were moustached Flight Lieutenants
> reminiscent of the Battle of Britain. They spent their time taking the
> pss out of the token Yank, and planning their weekends at Hendon.
>
> Roger
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> The Go-Betweens
>
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David Bircumshaw
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