AhabsOtherLeg wrote:I'm not being funny, Penguin, but my Mum and her sister saw a Gnome once as well. They still talk about it, but not much - they're not keen to talk about it, and not it's not cos they're scared of ridicule, or or the crushing reality of it, or anything like that. They just don't talk about it, much. 'Cos it's not that big a deal.
Well notice people in Brazil, Tibet, South East Asia, ect openly talk about all this Fortean stuff, as if its like going to the grocery store?
Some people dont talk about this stuff, as like a rape...they'd rather forget it. I know of stuff even the most drug fueled Hollywood writers
couldnt even make up.
It's long been known that the classic pointy hatted lawn gnome looking
characters have been seen in real life for centuries, and for some reason seem to be cropping up in South America.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:But it was the typical pattern - hammering under the ground, a wee man in a suit rising up through the ground, and running away. Not running away because they'd seen him. Just running like he had somewhere to go.
And he actually was a Gnome. Not just a wee drunk guy who'd been lying in the grass in his suit, hehe.)
I believe you. It fits in exactly with the no frills pattern countless others describe, long before we even had lawn gnomes decorating America's landscape.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:There is a pattern and a template to a lot of these incidents. They are random and bizarre, but not really. I've seen two UFOs, at the same time, even though I don't believe in aliens, or UFOs, as such. They were lights in the sky which moved in ways I can't explain (I was sober, for once, and had a reliably sober fellow witness). They didn't seem a threat, or even worth bothering about. They just floated about in the sky.
What's the problem?)
In 1991 I witnessed for almost an hour, a small armada of UFO's at night doing a kind of mandala like circular ritual...almost like a dance. It was so in your face, that a lawyer neighbor next door started firing his gun in the air. There was no doubt that these werent "government craft" or planes, helicopters, stars, satelites, ect. This was the real deal.
My mom describes a brightly colored UFO following them on the way home from church in late 60's southern California.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:If I'd later heard that Whitley Streiber had been abducted again near my house I would've started worrying. But they never bothered anybody.
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Somehow, it becomes ever more doubtful Streiber is talking about "aliens" from other planets in his writings.
Penguin wrote:Wrong!
Japanese have written records of UFO sightings from the 1500s. And I bet there are paintings even earlier. And some apocryphal books also feature these. As do ayahuasca vision portrayals etc. Not 140, thousands of years!
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Have you seen the ancient Hindu illustrations? Holy crap, the drawings look just like the famous UFO saucers, down to even the littlest details.
I do believe some if not many of the UFOs are more than apparitions, and may be nuts and bolts. Its clear, the UFO saucer/craft phenomenon is millennial old.
