When Flying Saucers Attack!

[Celesta]

Hiddy ho Gang,

I saw the Chicago airport UFO Hunters last night. That was interesting about the crafts showing up on film but not necessarily to the unaided eye. Tom said that airports use clinometers to measure clouds heights. They used to use regular light but he says that now it would make more sense if they used IR. If that's what they're using, it might be an explanation for some of this. However the films they used in the program certainly captured what looked like moving objects. Tom's been doing a search for IR clinometers.

Stan, your response to my post about spare the rod had me chuckling the rest of the day yesterday. Thank you!

[Celesta]

I didn't mean it in quite that way, Stan! Sorry!

[sdreid]

Stan,

You Illinois folks sure are getting a lot of UFO attention these days. I guess they heard about Spare the Rod and want to check him for their own amusement.

Yes, now I guess we're the laughing stock of the Universe.

[Celesta]

Thank you, Jeff. It's deeply appreciated. I just heard from him a minute ago and his tongue is really bothering him. He is so ready to be rid of this thing.

How's you mom?


Stan,

You Illinois folks sure are getting a lot of UFO attention these days. I guess they heard about Spare the Rod and want to check him for their own amusement.

Mike,

I have to agree that that is pretty scary with those turbine blades. I've never seen one up close though, so I have no idea how fast they revolve.

[sdreid]

It's flying saucers over Chicago on UFO Hunters tonight.

[Mike Covell]

New spy plane unveiled in the UK,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7881031.stm

Report by company investigating the turbine, states that it was not a UFO! They believe it it wear and tear, which is frightening, as the turbines are quite new!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7880987.stm

Another white horse "down south"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7880889.stm

Hope everyone is well!

[Mayerling]

Hi Celeste,

I have not been on the board this week much - but best wishes to your brother on his surgery this Friday. My prayers are with your family.

Jeff

[Celesta]

Thank you, Mike! Bless you all.

[Mike Covell]

You don't need to ask Celesta, you know were all thinking of you and yours, and we will continue to do so.

[sdreid]

Hi Cel,

I didn't see it either. It didn't really interest me.

[Celesta]

Hi Stan,

Thank you for your prayer. It means a lot.

I never saw that movie. I saw some quick previews of it, just brief ones, and I wasn't very convinced with her. How was the full version? What did you think?

[sdreid]

Hi Cel,

I did say a prayer for your brother. All the best of wishes to him.

Hopefully, the authorities will keep an eye open for that gun.

Who knows what Dylan has in his mind. I wonder how he felt having a woman play him in a movie.

[Celesta]

Hi Gang,

My brother has his cancer surgery this Friday. This has gotten in a lymph gland, but the cancer surgeon says that it is a very slow spreading cancer. Any spare prayers you may have would be deeply appreciated. We need all the help we can get.

Stan, We just have no way of knowing what happened with that rifle. We searched the house several times and have not found it. It's being like those used by the army at the Little Big Horn was a very interesting aspect of it.

I was a bit suspicious of Dylan's song about Carter. Of all of the people he could have helped by writing such a song, why did he choose someone who was already a celebrity? Of course it's neither here nor there, I guess. Just something I wondered about at the time.

[sdreid]

Hi Jeff,

I agree Carter may well have been innocent but I'm still not 100% sure of that.

[Mayerling]

Hi Cel, Stan, and Mike,

Cel -Mom is doing better, although still occasionally taking a pain killer. She cooked dinner tonight (but I did the laundry tonight!)
Thanks for asking.

Stan - I forgot Freddy Mills and Hurricane Carter (but the latter was proven to be innocent!).

Your comments about the repeater rifles and Custer reminded me of the situation three years later at Isandhlwana. Due to being held responsible (financially) for the cost of lost ammunition, the quartermaster at the battle insisted on handing out literally handfuls of bullets at a time, which caused the British to be massacred. By the way, the genius' was named Edward Bloomfield (again not a relation). He also died in the battle. The ammo was also in "tins" like sardine can, and there was only one key to open them all. British soldiers at the end were desperately trying to break open the tins with their bayonets.

Best wishes,

Jeff