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I am a retired corrections officer from the State of Michigan. I am 59 years old and enjoy hunting, fishing and woodworking.
I believe that I saw a possible UFO in September of 1972. I was on duty at a prison work camp in Shingleton, Michigan when I observed what appeared to be a bright star moving in a pricise triangler pattern in the southern sky. It continued to move in the same pattern for several hours. The surrounding stars continued to move from east to west but this light remained in the same area. At arms length,using a ruler measured against a stationary object, it moved in an 18" triangler pattern, .
I contacted the state police ten miles away and asked if they could see the object. The could not due to hills. The object was about 15 deg. above the horizon. The next day a Lt. from the state police post said that there were UFO sightings in Oshkosh, Wisconsin over Lake Winnebago. This was at the same time that i saw the object. Oshkosh, Wisconsin is located about 230 miles south of my location.
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I read a short article in U.S. news magazine, July 30th, 2001 issue. I logged on and found the site very interesting.
I run SETI because I feel it is of the utmost importance that we attempt to locate life in the universe. Our planet is slowly dying and I feel it is time to move elsewhere. An advanced civilization could help us with the transition if they think we are worth the effort.
It is absurd to think that we are the only life forms in the universe. I believe that man and many of the Earth's life forms have originated elsewhere. Man may have been transplanted here. The story of Noah and the ark carrying all the animals may have its roots in space travel. Could it be that life came here in the form of DNA carried by extraterriestrials and propagated itself by a method similer to cloning? I think man is alien to earth. Earth may not have been they only place that he originally went. Man at one time possessed the intelligence to travel throughout the universe. The knowledge has become lost thru the ages, IE: if we placed children on an island to fend for themselves, after several generations how much knowledge would they have? They would have heard stories about vehicles that pulled themselves, people flying in machines etc. but they would be unable to prove that the superior intelligence existed.
We have nothing to lose by discovering extraterrestrial intelligence. They may have something to lose if we were to bring them the belief system that we possess that has caused man to destroy himself and others. Look what we have done to various "primitive" societies that we as "intelligent" man have tried to "civilize".
Whether or not we should transmit signals is a moot point. We have been transmitting signals since radio was invented. I sure hope extraterrestrials do not judge mankind by the mindless garbage that is being sent daily by television.
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