Fair enough, Bill. :-)

This is an issue that clearly pushes my buttons. There's almost nothing I get this upset about anymore. I find that interesting, and I shall have to see if I can figure out why it bothers me so much. I have no doubt of what I saw back in the late 60's...intelligently piloted vehicles of a totally unknown sort, doing quite amazing maneuvers, in complete silence, at a high altitude. Many other people saw them too, and it got in the local papers for a couple of days, then was forgotten...but not by me.

You find it unlikely that they could travel here? Well, using our science and technology?...yeah! Very unlikely. From the point of view of a Samoan villager on some isolated island not too long ago, it was quite unlikely that some people could fly over the island inside a noisy metal tube with wings on it too. Impossible! Laughable! Couldn't be! Then it happened...

"Hmmmm...well, ummm...I guess it IS possible, after all," says the poor, dumfounded Samoan. Then the other Samoans who didn't see the airplane and its crew boil him up in a pot for lying and spreading scary "ghost" stories!

I am suggesting that they have found a method of travel that we have little or no idea about, Bill...one that involves either faster-than-light speed or interdimensional travel or what we might call "time" travel. Or something else. They may be easily capable of visiting 85,000 different planets in the galaxy, and this one may be a very minor stop on the intinerary. Very minor. I know that thought would be hard to bear for human beings...that their planet might not be of number one concern to whoever else is out there...but it's a distinct possibility, isn't it? :-) We might be about as important as the Canary Islands. Or even worse...Belgium! Or worse than that...Blind River!

Number 6 - Yeah, there are some individual women who are just as inflexible as the "right man", and Maggie Thatcher appears to have been one of them. She made Bush look like a pansy. :-) I bet she wore iron shorts. Fortunately, such women are relatively rare.

You mentioned, "Now, back to aliens from outer space. I mentioned the power of the human mind. Do you not think it is the human, reaching within and outward of their boundaries, reaching for some spiritual meaning, beyond the physical of their being. Their own minds deriving answers from somehwere. Their answers bing remedied by some some vision within appearing as a supernatural phenomon such as aliens beyond their own world?"

Yes, that is one possible interpretation, and it's quite an intriguing one...

Our whole present perception of physical reality could be that too.