First, let me say that I am a rather conservative person. Not prone to believing off the wall tales until I can see some proof. However, the story I'm about to relate is true ( belive it or not )and will forever after have me looking to the night skies knowing we really have been visited by ETs.

Around 1961 or 1962, some friends and myself were at an old church building called 'Fishback' to listen to some local kids sing and play guitar. Fishback is out in the country about 4 or 5 miles east of Springdale Arkansas.

Around 10:00 or so that night a couple of guys came in and said there were strange lights outside. We all scrambled outside and sure enough,due west and apparently right over Springdale was a sight I will never forget!

Spread out over perhaps 2 or 3 miles was a geometric formation of red lights. Lots of red lights! As we watched, these lights moved back and forth into and out of each other. They seemed to be in triangular patterns.

My buddies and myself jumped into my old '50 Plymouth and headed north on old highway 68 which would eventually take us west to Springdale. WE had proceeded about a 1/4 mile when the lights started moving slowly to the south.

At this point I turned off the road to turn around to pursue them and got stuck in the ditch. All we could do was watch them slowly disappear into the night sky over Fayetteville.

I know this is not the UFO forum but I thought you might like to hear my story and I would certainly like hear to yours. So, if you have wanted to tell your story and were afraid of being ridiculed, perhaps this would be a good place to be anon.

I have had one other UFO experience that was just as spectacular in it's own way but I'll save that for another time.

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), January 24, 2000

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Citizen, I am still frozen at discovering the Hazards of Fluoride in drinking water, the scientific reports of Diet Coke, not to mention the Steroids the cattle are fed, which seem to be killing our kids, and their Ice Cream. Now you ask me to bite into your U.F.O.I am sorry. I won't bite off, more than I can chew, in this life-time.

-- Life Knowledges (moreth@nIcanchew.com), January 24, 2000.

Saw a large mothership in upstate Hudson Valley, NY in 1979. Thought I saw one when I was flying into Albuquerque, but that might have been one of "ours", since it was near to the base there.

Ever been to the Sandia Mountains? No birds sing up there, & black helicopters fly over the spine of the Sandia Range on a regular basis.

Is that proof that they exist (or of my wild imagination?)? If you read Phillip Corso's bbok, you might come to the conclusion that something did land at Roswell, & all the wonders of the New Millenium (CD-rom's, silicon wafers) come from re-engineering those fallen craft (fallen angels???).

One of the ways there might be a future worldwide dictatorship is as the outcome of a faked war with "outer space aliens". But how about a more disturbing scenario. What if we are already in contact with aliens. And they and TPTB "stage" a war!

-- INever (invercheckmy@onebox.com), January 24, 2000.

Life, just to push you over the edge (hehe) call coke and ask if nutrasweet is in the regular coke distributed to your area; "they" have learned that fermaldehyde uh I mean nutrasweet is a good flavor enhancer. It's shipped to Southern Cal, but I don't know where you live, so you would have to check with your local distributor.

Citizen, are you familiar with Project Blue Beam?

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 25, 2000.

citizen -
I recall some of your posts and (assuming it's the real you who started this thread) I don't think you're a wacko. Reassuring, eh? I, too, have witnessed what I'm quite certain was a UFO. After returning from Tae Kwon Do practice one summer evening in 1987 my stepfather and I noticed a circular aircraft with light at the base hovering at a few hundred feet (er, approximately). We looked at one another and he asked, "What the f--k could that be?" What surprises me most about the experience is the relative indifference with which we responded...

-- 2 (bucket@in.sky), January 25, 2000.

Good story Bucket...I think we're jaded by all the scifi special effects etc. When we see the real thing, part of our brain assumes we're still watching a movie! :)

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), January 25, 2000.

Having spent 20 years in the development of technology that was finally excepted, I love hearing that I got it from an alien spaceship.

Nutra-sweet only degrades to Formaldehyde if it is kept at elevated temps for an extended period. Do not leave your sodas in the car. Personally, I will not touch the stuff.

Saw an incredible UFO light show once over an airbase I was stationed at. Everyone got fairly excited when the lights hovered over a nuclear weapons storage area. Three days later, there was a massive earthquake. My take. Static discharge from the friction of plate tectonics. Yes this does happen. It is what animals pick up on.

Do believe they are out "there", just not here.

-- Surrounded (hiding@thefirststate.com), January 25, 2000.

I agree, citizen. Witnessing something that defies the norm can definitely seem surreal...

-- 2 (bucket@in.sky), January 27, 2000.