“He glimpsed a falling star in the west, like a match scratched against the sky, then returned to his room and rationed out three chapters of Two Years Before the Mast before going to sleep.” (99) – Metaphor caught my attention. – Sometimes things like this can bring peace to you and you just have that sense of feeling that you’re ok. – Stuff like this (shooting stars) doesn’t happen very often in most places.…
In early July of 1947, most likely around July 4th or 5th, something crashed to the Earth in the high desert of eastern New Mexico (Carey & SChmitt, 2009). Mac Brazel, a ranch hand on the J.B. Foster ranch, went to check on his sheep one morning after a series of severe thunderstorms. He was concerned about the wellbeing of his cattle because he heard a very loud explosion the night before during the storm. Upon riding out to the pastures, Brazel discovered a huge amount of strange debris scattered across the fields. Not knowing what this strange debris was, Brazel gathered some of it and showed it to his friends…
The second event that I went to was an observing done by Dr. Miller and his pal, that for the life of me I cannot remember. We all went out on March 20th, stopped for candy bars first! And then proceeded to the observatory. We observed Venus, Mars, Jupiter (and it’s 3 moons) and also talked about a few star constellations as well. Venus, that night was in it’s gibbous phase, and as I observed I noticed that Venus was a whole lot brighter in the sky to the naked eye than Jupiter and its three moons were. We looked directly behind us and saw Mars, which gave off a very dull red hue, but again this was probably due to us just viewing it with the naked eye. Dr. Miller also explained a lot about the star constellations, but one thing that stuck out to me was that the star Sirus, has a cousin that is a white dwarf star.…
Historically, has there been a Canadian statute specifically designed to regulate the press as an industry?…
"Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At twenty minutes before eight, Central Time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the Earth with enormous velocity..."…
i) In March 2004 Ted Phillips of the Branson, Missouri from the Center for Physical Trace Evidence photographed what he described as intense and odd-colored lights…
The American court would not take their testimony as real evidence because only seven out of the hundreds of witnesses claimed to have seen the debris or alien. Some of the people who have claimed to have seen the aliens seem to have made false comments which were by second-hand sources. Others made claims of sightings on their deathbed but they were thought to be elderly confused (Rowell 1947 Incident Retrieval). There may have been many people to make assumptions on what they saw but there was no solid proof or high quality…
Olson, Donald W, Russell L. Garrett, and Jennifer L. “The Moon and the Boston Massacre.” Sky & Telescope Mar 1998: 65-69. PerAbs. FirstSearch. Williamsville High School Lib. 23 October 2007. <http://firstsearch.oclc.org>.…
various regions of radiation. Numerous shades of varying size, shape and darkness swam steadfast past my eyes,…
But a sign came down from the world of grownups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it. There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars (95)…
The Captain noticed that at first the light was faint but growing brighter, and the light stood out against the darkness of the sky. Becoming clearer as the Captain’s plane approached the source. It was difficult to determine whether it was moving because his aircraft was also moving.…
In the article “Alien World” by Alexander Zaitchik (2009), the author makes a logical argument about how Mexico’s impoverished economy is heavily dependent on migrant workers and how it has affected an indigenous people. Zaitchik is a freelance journalist who is affiliated with Poverty Law, a U.S. organization that supports ethnic and racial tolerance. Zaitchik’s article attempts to convey the idea that Mexico’s economy is forcing people to take desperate measures in order to survive. He uses his experience with a border crossing simulation as a way to lure the reader into the article. Zaitchik then proceeds to use statistical evidence to enlighten the reader about Mexico’s economic dependency on migrant workers. Zaitchik travelled to Mexico to learn about and participate in the border crossing simulation. He effectively uses his experience with the border crossing simulation, its participants, the Otomi people and his knowledge of the Mexican economy to effectively present his argument.…
After spending the day with my old China roommate at his home near Chico, my two younger brothers and I began our long journey south not long after sunset. We finally passed Sacramento around 11pm. I can best describe the eeriness of the next six hours of travel observations using sci-fi geek terms: I witnessed a reverse Dave Bowman experience. If you may recall the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 1960s film of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: The Space Odyssey, stranded astronaut David Bowman encountered a massive black…
around me. The sky was pitch black with glistening stars that looked like fireflies. Groups of…
up, down, east and west in sudden and passing gleams”. Another alien encounter took place in…