Monday, September 13, 2010

UFO Shaped Like Ford Station Wagon Drove Me Off Road, Woman Says

UFO_20100904121503_JPGSide view, 1969 Ford Falcon station wagon. Not...An Australian woman claims she was cut off by two alien beings in a spaceship shaped like a Ford station wagon -- before it took off surrounded by green, blue and red flames, the Northern Territory News reported Saturday.

Her amazing tale was just one of the stories to emerge after public broadcaster the ABC opened up the airwaves in the Northern Territory to UFO believers.

Betty, from Alice Springs, said her close encounter occurred in 1969.

She was driving 12 miles south of Aileron towards the northern city of Alice Springs at 4 am with her6-year-old daughter when they saw the vehicle "flying alongside us."

"We saw these two figures inside this thing. It looked like a Ford station wagon, with the windows," Betty said. "It came in front of us really quickly."

Her daughter then said: "There's nothing to be afraid of."

"I said, 'Why did you say that?'

"She said, 'I don't know, it just came out of my mouth.'

"And as I was talking, the whole thing took off like a shot out of a gun ... And then there was all this green and blue and red flames or lights all around it.

"I'll never forget it."

Another caller, Dennis, said his sighting was shared by a crowd of people on the Dripstone Cliffs, 61 miles (98km) south of Darwin, at sunset.

"A mate and I were looking down the beach and saw this orangey-pink light progressing towards us. No sound at all," he said. "We just watched it in silence as it cruised on past the casino."

via UFO Shaped Like Ford Station Wagon Drove Me Off Road, Woman Says.

That was 41 years ago. Memory can change quite a bit in 41 years. If you write down the details of events and go back and read them for the first time even a few months later, you will often be surprised at how much your story changed.
Some of the most rousing arguments I’ve had with family and friends center on events that we all remember “perfectly.” I nearly came to blows (not really) with my mother once over something that I “knew” she said, that she “knew” she had not. Which of us is right? Are we both wrong? How does this happen?

Memory is different than most people realize. We do not remember events. We remember the story we told ourselves the last time we remembered the event. This causes a game of telephone where the actual details change to fit with the other information about our world we have stored since the event happened.  If this Betty has notes she wrote in 1969 about this event, I'd like to read them.

1 comment:

Robert Myrland said...

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