Securing The UFO Vote
The Wall Street Journal recounts the story of Dennis Kucinich and his close encounter with a UFO. Kucinich himself absolutely refused to have anything to do with the story, but two people who say they were with him at the time of the incident have come forward to tell their story.
Here's what happened, according to separate interviews with Mr. Costanzo and his former girlfriend:
The day was strange from the start. For hours, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Costanzo and his companion noticed a high-pitched sound. "There was a sense that something extraordinary was happening all day," says the girlfriend. She and Mr. Costanzo say that none of the three consumed alcohol or took drugs.
As they sat down to a dinner, Mr. Kucinich spotted a light in the distance, to the left of Mount Rainier. Mr. Costanzo thought it was a helicopter.
But Mr. Kucinich walked outside to the deck to look through the telescope that he had bought Ms. MacLaine as a house gift. After a few minutes, Mr. Kucinich summoned the other two: "Guys, come on out here and look at this."
Mr. Costanzo and his girlfriend joined Mr. Kucinich, where they took turns peering through the telescope. What they saw in the far distance, according to both witnesses, was a hovering light, which soon divided into two, and then three.
After a few minutes, the lights moved closer and it became apparent that they were actually three charcoal-gray, triangular craft, flying in a tight wedge. The girlfriend remembers each triangle having red and green lights running down the edges, with a laser-like red light at the tail. Mr. Costanzo recalls white lights, but no tail.
Mr. Costanzo says each triangle was roughly the size of a large van, while his former girlfriend compares it to a "larger Cessna, smaller than a jet certainly." Neither recalls seeing any markings, landing gear, engines, windows or cockpits.
The craft approached to within 200 yards, suspended over the field just beyond the swimming pool. Both witnesses say it emitted a quiet, throbbing sound — nothing like an airplane engine.
"There was a feeling of wanting to communicate something, but I didn't know what," says Mr. Costanzo.
The craft held steady in midair, for perhaps a minute, then sped away, Mr. Costanzo says. "Nothing had landed," he says. "No strange beings had disembarked. No obvious messages were beamed down. When they were completely out of sight, we all looked at each other disbelieving what we had seen."
Mr. Costanzo is afraid that people are ridiculed if they come forward with stories of this type. We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are quite happy to make his fears come true. When we originally heard about the incident we suspected that it might be Uncle Guido testing his new hovercraft. The description seems about right, after all. If it wasn't Guido, it may have been someone else sending directions to Denny, of course.
Meanwhile, Kucinich has asked all of his supporters in Iowa to vote for Barack Obama on the second ballot.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Representative Dennis Kucinich urged his Iowa followers today to select Senator Barack Obama as their second choice at the caucuses on Thursday if his support is not strong enough to be viable in the 1,781 precincts across the state.
“Senator Obama and I have one thing in common: Change,” Mr. Kucinich said in a statement today.
The two spoke briefly by telephone before Mr. Obama flew here for an afternoon rally. In a statement, Mr. Obama took advantage of the opportunity to point out that he, along with Mr. Kucinich, opposed the war in Iraq. “He and I have been fighting for a number of the same priorities,” Mr. Obama said.
Gee, it makes you wonder why the UFO story was published just at this particular time, doesn't it?
Politics, Weird Stuff | Gaius Wednesday, 2 January , 2008
By NortonPete, Wednesday, 2 January , 2008 @ 11:05 am
How safety conscience these aliens are in observing our rules for position lights on aircraft. Green on the right wing, red on the left with a white light at the tail and a red flashing beacon.
About 20 years ago a group of local pilots north of me got into some hot water with the FAA and police for a UFO hoax that went on for years. About 10+ of them would takeoff with various small aircraft and form a formation at night, particularly when there was good visibility but no stars or moon.
They would fly at an altitude that made them look like one giant UFO mother ship. Sometimes idling back their engines to appear to hover, they then might all turn the lights off on a signal and break out of the circle in every direction putting their lights back on. This would be done over a small town, with Piper Cubs or Cessna 152s.
Local police would get loads of UFO calls. They got smart and landed at different small local airports. Stories would pop up in the local paper, some with very elaborate descriptions of alien craft.
They did get caught, I think they flew over a prison ( FAA infraction along with formation flying ) and the guards turned the lights on them, called the police who waited at some of the airports.
Anything for a joke.
By martian, Wednesday, 2 January , 2008 @ 1:46 pm
I agree with NortonPete it was probably someone playing a joke. After all, my ship is protected by an invisibility cloak - they couldn’t have seen it!