A Force Alien [View all]

"There's UFOs over New York, and I ain't too surprised."
-- John Lennon; Nobody Told Me

"On the 23rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a U.F.O."
-- John Lennon; Walls and Bridges


In 1967, I saw a UFO. In fact, most of the neighborhood witnessed it. As it took place on a warm, sunny summer early evening, lots of people were outside. I was with a group of neighborhood youth at the time. One kid was so scared that he messed his trousers, something that went hand-in-hand with the neighborhood's oral history of the UFO.

I do not know what it was. The local media reported on it. There are a few possibilities, of course, but it remains "unidentified" in my mind. I try to keep an open mind on if there is life elsewhere in the universe, and respect a wide range of views on that topic. At the same time, there are people I think are as full of shit as my neighbor's pants were on that day.

John Lennon and Muhammad Ali both said they saw UFOs. I have the greatest of respect for both of these men. May Pang has told about the day that John and others saw the UFO. For all I know, it might have been a drone, as US intelligence was spying on John back then. But I know it was not Paul McCartney's album "Flaming Pie." Paul was paying tribute to John, who once answered a reporter's question on how the group got their name: “It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, ‘from this day on you are Beatles with an A.'”

This, of course, does not explain why John named a song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in 1967. Was it Julian's drawing? LSD? A prediction of the drones that today are re-creating the excitement of The Beatles first trip to America? I didn't sample LSD until a few years post-1967 while listening to Sgt Peppers, so I can't say with certainty.Plus I never played it backwards.

From this firm foundation, I have been watching the reports on the drones that have caught the attention of a segment of the public as fast as hula hoops caught on in 1958. Nay-sayers may point out that the history of the hula hoop goes back to at least 500 bc, so it took some time to become a fad. The Slinky only dates back to the 1940s, after all.

Since the drones are unlikely to eat breakfast at McDonald's, I can only speculate. I don't think they are hunting a nuclear dirty bomb. I know the in-coming administration will declare war on our country, but their cult leader will already have the football. I don't think it is aliens, unless Jimi was right about their saying we've made such a mess, and they don't want to risk seeing us too closely. I will say, however, Fox News reported that it might be Iran, an obvious attempt to panic their audience.

I'll go with jets, planes, and drones. Let's focus on the drones. Is it a spoof by drone owners that has caught on? Maybe. A group of old Merry Pranksters, or their children and grandchildren? Or might it be coordinated -- at least originally -- by the gang of retired FBI agents in the NYC area? That group of Vietnam combat veterans who worked together to make Rudy G look good when he was a federal prosecutor? The ones that assisted General Flynn with QAnon? Flynn, the guy that had his suit against Rick Wilson tossed a day after another of his cases was thrown out? I mean, who better to run a domestic psychological operation?

That leaves the Space Force or some related military test operation as a possibility. One they don't share information on. And one that likely has caught the attention of other drone owners. This leaves me with the question of "what to do?" This reminds me of the 1938 CBS radion broadcast of "War of the Worlds," where Orson Welles read a version of the H.G. Wells novel. Welles had a great voice, and so lots of people believed it was real. Not that a great voice always matters: my maternal grandmother thought professional wrestling was real, and used to insist my father "make them stop."

What to do? Is it patriotic to panic? Stand in the streets and scream? Will the maga cult determine it is a call to arms? Most things are for them. Make a lightning trip to Stonehenge to conduct a fake Druid ceremony? Burn some sage there, and juggle six crystals while standing on one foot, singing "Nobody Told Me?" First, I can't afford that, even with a Go Fund Me page. Second, it's not true: Onondaga Faith Keeper Oren Lyons warned us of this as far back as the 1970s.

Yet, as a Clan Mother told me, "Yes, Oren warned us. But I hoped it wouldn't start happening while I'm still alive." But it is. And part of this reality is that we have a power foreign to anything experienced previously in this country taking over the three branches of the federal government. That is something that requires our full attention now, rather than hula hoops, slinkies, and/or drones.

Be awake! Be aware! We can and will survive this. Next I shall write about survival skills.

H2O Man