What The Heck Is That?

I just got some fodder on a subject that is close to my heart -- UFO's. This comes from someone who stays awake listening to Coast to Coast A.M. with George Noory weeknights and Art Bell on weekends. This greatest radio show of all times blasts through the airwaves from 10:00 p.m. 'til 4:00 a.m. on WREC in Memphis. I pray that it is never taken off the air -- if it is just get me ready to meet my Maker.

Coast to Coast A.M., for those of you who are not avid listeners, covers topics varying from the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash in the '40's to time travel, alien abduction, black holes, parallel universes and all that good stuff.

I have one of those pillow speakers so that the radio will not keep Melinda awake as I cat nap through the six-hour show. It may surprise some of you that I am into all of this pseudo-science and science fiction, but I am going to have a leg up on most of you when the aliens take over the planet -- I will know what to expect and how best to combat the situation.

Now to the subject of this latest UFO sighting.

One of the largest unidentified flying objects ever reported was recently observed by the crew and passengers on a British airliner over the Channel Islands. Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, spotted the object while flying near Alderney and described it as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light."

As the aircraft got closer to the UFO, Captain Bowyer observed it through binoculars and further described it as a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. "It was 2,000 feet up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realized it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a Boeing 727, but it could have been as much as a mile wide." He also saw a similar object further to the west.

The sighting was also confirmed by some of the passengers, an unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands Airline and by a Tri-Lander aircraft flying near Alderney. Most sightings that I have read about have not been nearly this large -- whatever this was, it was bigger than huge.

I don't know your feelings on UFO's, but I can only say that there have been many, many unexplained sightings for far too many years by reputable individuals. There have also been many crazies who have seen lots of things in the heavens as well.

I personally have never seen anything that I could not explain or identify, nor have I been abducted, examined by short grey aliens with big almond-shaped eyes and had a chip imbedded in my body. But I cannot deny that strange things are evidently happening in this infinite universe where we are privileged to occupy a teeny tiny spot.

Are we alone?