I, personally, can't wait 4 aliens 2 land. I'm sure aliens r among us now--so that doesn't scare me that much. But, I'll tell u, reading Striber's Communion and watching the movie scared the literal crap out of me!!! I watched The Mothman Prophesies on Sunday, which was pretty darn good, and the red eyes of the "Mothman", or whatever it was, got me thinking of 1 of the freakiest xperiences I've ever had: --My x-wife and I were driving across country in '86 from NM 2 NY 2 catch a plane 4 Portugal. I did alot of the driving, but slept 4 3hrs while she drove. I took over the driving again @ about 2am, my x-wife was sleeping and we were in eastern Oklahoma. Around 3am we were close 2 the Kerr-McGee factory (Karen Silkwood, plutonium poisoning and all that) and there r signs in that area that say "turn lights on thru smoke". Apparently they burn alot to keep the brush down in that area--they do it during the day...I caught up w/a car that was about 500 yards away and paced it @ about 68mph. this went on 4 15 minutes and there were no exits coming up on the freeway and trees and guardrails lined the road. I didn't kno it but my x-wife was awake and looking @ the car ahead of us--and mentioned something about how big the rectangular taillights were. 5 minutes later the other car and ours started down in2 a little valley and this strange smoke/mist came across the freeway and we couldn't c the taillights anymore. We could c the trees and the guardrails continually passing by, but we lost sight of the taillights. We came out of the "smoke" and topped a rise, then could c cleary 4 about 1/2 a mile down the road. But no car was ahead of us!! I thought it was odd and though that possibly the other driver had an accident so I speeded up 2 about 85. No sign of the guardrails being disturbed, no sign of the car. Then I hit up 2 over 100mph 4 about 5 minutes straight--the moon came out from behind a cloud, we topped another rise where we REALLY could c VERY clearly 4 1/2 a mile--no exits no broken guardrails NO car! We were both completely sober and I definately should have seen the taillights, or headlights 4 that matter, when I topped the first rise--even if the guy was going 150mhp!! When I speeded up so fast my x-wife kept saying "slow down" mayb he broke down in the middle of the road and u'll hit him!" But I could c well enuff 2 stop if that were the case--so I kept going. That 1 little curtian of "mist" was the only 1 we encountered--and we're both still freaked about the xperience 2 this day... How far do you fall Pilot?<i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 6/23/02 6:33:22 pm </i>
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