well, meteors ARE alien, other. They're the nearest we will get to Other Worlds. Roger On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:00 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 -- 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