TalkingMeatSuit
Paranormal Maven
So I moved back down south recently, and college football is big here. There's a local bar that makes AWESOME wings, and I wanted to get some for lunch. I decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and I sat alone at this semi-country bar and pigged out to break the monotony of work.
Shortly after I sat down, two old guys seated themselves a chair down from me around the corner of the bar. They were doing typical cranky southern Republican convo, talking about how their grand-kids are stuck with this generation's debt, etc. They eventually engage me in conversation, with the older of the two fossils eventually telling me that he spent his career as a Navy intelligence analyst after I asked him what he did for work (he asked me, so I made conversation by asking him the same afterwards).
At this point, his buddy elbows him and comments how "he still won't tell me what he did, him and all his security clearances". Having heard enough interviews and obviously being interested in the topic, I half-jokingly asked him "so if you were above top secret, I guess you worked with UFO's?".
He replied that he never worked with them, but knows they're real. Claimed to have seen a few while he was in the service but it didn't concern him or his duties. If he actually had clearances and was that old, I suspected that they would have something to do with nuclear / defenses. When I questioned him on the topic he wouldn't answer anything, not that this legitimises his claims.
In typical southern fashion, he informed me that he's retired and a preacher now, but believes "the lord has many houses, and space is very big".
Not exactly a paranormal experience, and for all I know I could have been questioning an old loony on his semi-monthly outside-the-walls visit at his nursing home. But it at last made for a more interesting lunch.
Shortly after I sat down, two old guys seated themselves a chair down from me around the corner of the bar. They were doing typical cranky southern Republican convo, talking about how their grand-kids are stuck with this generation's debt, etc. They eventually engage me in conversation, with the older of the two fossils eventually telling me that he spent his career as a Navy intelligence analyst after I asked him what he did for work (he asked me, so I made conversation by asking him the same afterwards).
At this point, his buddy elbows him and comments how "he still won't tell me what he did, him and all his security clearances". Having heard enough interviews and obviously being interested in the topic, I half-jokingly asked him "so if you were above top secret, I guess you worked with UFO's?".
He replied that he never worked with them, but knows they're real. Claimed to have seen a few while he was in the service but it didn't concern him or his duties. If he actually had clearances and was that old, I suspected that they would have something to do with nuclear / defenses. When I questioned him on the topic he wouldn't answer anything, not that this legitimises his claims.
In typical southern fashion, he informed me that he's retired and a preacher now, but believes "the lord has many houses, and space is very big".
Not exactly a paranormal experience, and for all I know I could have been questioning an old loony on his semi-monthly outside-the-walls visit at his nursing home. But it at last made for a more interesting lunch.
