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In reply to the discussion: My family UFO story: [View all]H2O Man
(73,528 posts)But-but-but - we are the exact center of the universe, and clearly the ultimate in creation! Just look to the heavens on a clear night, or listen to Oral Roberts!
I'll note that both Muhammad Ali and John Lennon saw what are known as UFOs. Neither would lie about such a thing.
Also, I believe it was in 1967 -- but I could be off a year either way -- everyone in our rural neighborhood witnessed a UFO in the early evening sky, flying very low. This made the national news, as it covered a long path in the northeast.
A few weeks later, as a victim of a Catholic parent, I found myself listening to the Sister say that there was no such thing as a UFO, for if there was, it would surely be in the bible. Thus, I asked her how the prophet Elijah had left the earth? "On a flaming chariot," she said. The room went silent, then people broke out in laughter. She called my father, and I got the holy shit beat out of me on the front lawn of the church.
In the many years that I served as the top assistant to the Onondaga Nation's Chief Paul Waterman, we used to discuss things like this. The traditional elders had a more open mind about such things.