When you see a UFO drop everything

Christmas vacation, a time of slow news. “Give me something, anything,” begs the news editor.

I’d opt for UFOs.A needle roller bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion They are a contagion without a vaccine. As soon as a few are seen, they grow viral and plenty more are claimed, making the perfect storm: stories breeding stories.

Ask Bill Clinton. They fascinate him. Was that a UFO over Obama’s Colorado speech, then his inauguration?

Astronauts are seeing strange lights in space.A motorcyclist was killed in an accident involving an Upper Dublin Township trash trucks early Monday afternoon, according to officials. UFO experts interpret this as “stalking by a UFO mothership.” NASA says it’s ice floating off the spacecraft.

A UFO expert claims new photos show Mt. Adams in Washington State is the disguised entrance to a deep alien base. “Glowing orbs fill the sky nearly every evening.”

Those of us in the news media expect to chase windmills during these epidemics. I was the de facto UFO reporter for a number of years after I interviewed a guy from Minerva who believed he was abducted by aliens. Obviously, they threw the fish back into the water. It was a very slow news day.

As they do now, people at that time allowed Hollywood to define space aliens, as if Hollywood knew anything.The move to metal packaging has allowed Sprecher to reach key customer targets and has resulted in a clear growth in sales since the initial launch. I wrote one story about a scientist at Kent State. He was worried we were so enamored with Hollywood stereotypes, we wouldn’t know UFOs when (not if) we saw real ones.

In the 1950s, UFO spotting became a hobby, then a passion and then an obsession. The military bears responsibility as they used the reports to disguise experiments on secret rocket and jet planes. They paid for that, still blamed for a massive cover up.

Then came the 1966 “swamp gas episode.” Hundreds of folks attested to seeing bright lights flitting around two Michigan towns. They eventually were explained by glowing swamp gas, but nobody bought it.

My Dad blamed the Russians. They’d exploded a 50,000-kiloton bomb in the atmosphere in 1961, enough to surely magnetize curious space aliens.They removed the majority of the bolts but not the locking Wheel nut, that's why I managed to get so far

We ran an AP story on how a group of boys in Indiana perpetrated a UFO hoax. They put a candle in a plastic dry-cleaning bag. The bag took off when filled with hot air and flew for 8 minutes before disintegrating in a flash.

The reporter had to know he’d just published a recipe that every kid in the nation would die to try. And we did.

We sent off a flotilla of bag UFOs the first clear night. They lined up and flew in formation on the west winds. And people went nuts, calling the airport tower, the weather bureau.The first tin cans were heavy-weight containers that required ingenuity to open, using knives, chisels, or even stones. Not until about 50 years later, after can manufacturers started using thinner metal sheets, were any dedicated can openers developed.

Cop cars were scrambled. People tore themselves from their popcorn and Disney’s “When You Wish Upon a Star.” Funny how some people only think about God when they need him the most.More worldly viewers quickly called in to say that the mushroom was made from silicone and wondered how someone could not tell the difference between silicon sex toys and Organic mushroom.