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Back in 1988 or 1989 ABC had a story about UFO's and abductions and i remember i got scared when i saw this photo, i even cried.

http://www.mactonnies.com/ufonaut.gif

Anyway I was 9 years old then and I was fascinated.

Im not sure how I feel about the whole subject now-I havent seen anything in my life but I dont doubt some people who have seen anything unusual or experienced something out of the ordinary. I think something could be out there, personally I havent experienced it.

Have a great week!
 
Brad Steiger was a friend of my Aunt. his books were my favorites as a child and still are today.
 
i suspect it was Dr Who..........
on sunday nights the people of my village would cluster around the only set for miles to watch it.........

well not quite, but close enough, my grandfather was the third person in NZ to own a TV set (and much later first to own a colour set), so on sunday the whole family would have dinner at their house and then sit around the new toy and watch Dr Who.

then E von danikens books came out..... the rest is as they say history
 
I was into the Original Star Trek series when young during the late 70's and into the 80's... (2nd or 3rd run of it). Also loved sci-fi books and movies so it escalated from there, basically......
 
Faces at my window when I was 5. Seeing a luminous being with my neighbor at age 6.

Many other events through out my life that have made me more than question this altered reality we live in.
 
Lack of good answers from main stream science, religion, and parents made me seek out other avenues for answers, even as a very young child. I figured humans don't know what's going on, so looked into communicating, or any possible communication with the afterlife, or other intelligent beings, possible ets etc. for answers.
 
A ball of light that shot away at speeds no one can imagine. If I would have blinked I never would have seen it at all.
 
As far as an interest in ETs is concerned I think watching Dr. Who and Star Trek were my earliest experiences.

My interest in UFOs, however, probably began with an Eric von Daniken book and, at approximately the same time, a book called Spaceship Moon(I think).
 
NNN said:
As far as an interest in ETs is concerned I think watching Dr. Who and Star Trek were my earliest experiences.

My interest in UFOs, however, probably began with an Eric von Daniken book and, at approximately the same time, a book called Spaceship Moon(I think).
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our mysterious spaceship moon by don wilson, or the sequel secrets of our spaceship moon.

both great books imho
 
I've always been interested in sci-fi and space things in general. I wanted to be an astrophysicist when I was a kid (also wanted to be an assassin but thats neither here nor there :D).

Then aged 10ish, I saw something in the sky along with other pupils at my primary school. That was during the Welsh Triangle flap of 1978/9. A ufo landed at another primary school a few miles from ours at Broad Haven (south-west Wales); the school bully at my primary school saw a very tall something in a shiny silver suit ... scared him witless.

And of course, it was the rule to watch Dr Who on a Saturday afternoon at 5:25pm , just after Grandstand :D (never ending sports programme for those that don't know).

[ps of the Brits around here, does anyone remember a Nationwide programme ... somewhere in the mid 70s ... involving werewolves??? I remember an account of a woman going to her front door, after her doorbell had been rung, only to find a "werewolf" standing there!! They put up a picture of said werewolf on the screen. Scared me bloody witless ... but then again I was a sensitive child :p]
 
paraschtick said:
I've always been interested in sci-fi and space things in general. I wanted to be an astrophysicist when I was a kid (also wanted to be an assassin but thats neither here nor there :D).

Then aged 10ish, I saw something in the sky along with other pupils at my primary school. That was during the Welsh Triangle flap of 1978/9. A ufo landed at another primary school a few miles from ours at Broad Haven (south-west Wales); the school bully at my primary school saw a very tall something in a shiny silver suit ... scared him witless.

And of course, it was the rule to watch Dr Who on a Saturday afternoon at 5:25pm , just after Grandstand :D (never ending sports programme for those that don't know).

[ps of the Brits around here, does anyone remember a Nationwide programme ... somewhere in the mid 70s ... involving werewolves??? I remember an account of a woman going to her front door, after her doorbell had been rung, only to find a "werewolf" standing there!! They put up a picture of said werewolf on the screen. Scared me bloody witless ... but then again I was a sensitive child :p]
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i hated grandstand, even wrote to the nzbc, (local clone of the bbc) when i was five or six asking them to stop showing it. they even wrote back thanking me for my input....but that stinky show remained on air.
 
I would have to say Close Encounters of the Third Kind. My older brother took me and our mother to see it in 77 when I was barely a teen. I remember walking out of the theatre with my head on a skyward swivel. I barely slept for days and kept thinking about it for weeks afterward.
 
trilithium said:
I would have to say Close Encounters of the Third Kind. My older brother took me and our mother to see it in 77 when I was barely a teen. I remember walking out of the theatre with my head on a skyward swivel. I barely slept for days and kept thinking about it for weeks afterward.
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When I saw that movie I had just been to a party. There were kids running around ther eating brownies, so my spouse and I ate one, too. Then we went to pick up my mother, who was about 65 at the time, and take her to the movie. By the time I got to the theater I realized that unbeknownst to me, the brownies were full of pot and I was getting high. Brownies have a low-burn effect so it takes a little while to get going on them. My mother thought I was very funny staring at the blue screen prior to the movie and saying how cool the screen was. As I remember, and maybe I don't, the movie was a real trip.
 
My father had a beta-max player and 5 movies. Four were John Wayne westerns and the 5th was War of the Worlds (1953). I must have watched that movie 100 times. I always liked star wars and when I was 6 I loved watching Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers. Probably more of a Buck Rogers fan. I loved the thought of aliens. There was one episode with a blue skinned white haird midget and a headless guy. The Bird man Hawk and there was no food. Just pills that tasted like food but had all your nutrition. I loved that show.

Anyway, I was just a fan of anything Sci-Fi and around the same time (I cant remember the year) my parents were watching Close Encounters on the VCR. I was supposed to be in bed but was secretly watching from where they couldn't see me.

When I was older I loved to watch the series "V" and Star Trek TNG. I didn't really get interested until the Roswell story on Unsolved Mysteries. I looked into it for a couple of years after that but was more interested in stuff kids at that age are interested in. When I got out of College I got a job in Utah of all places and had no friends and a bunch of time on my hands. There was a crappy paranormal radio show called "Ground Zero" hosted by this guy named Clyde Lewis. (http://groundzeromedia.org/index.php) It was not very good. Sort of a marginally cooler version of C2C. Anyway, I got involved in the forum and live chat during the show they had (and this was 1997-98 progressive for the time.) and was known as a skeptic. Mostly because they didnt bother to vet their guests and treated every story as gospel. Hoagland and Howe were regulars. However, it was during that time that I became convined that there was something to the subject if only I could sift though the mountains of shit. Voila!
 
Watching that movie can have many different effects on people, brownies or not. Your description of it was quite funny! I can't overstate what an impact that film had on my life, generally speaking. I have never had a Paranormal experience but that film opened my eyes so to speak to the Paranormal.
David and many guests of the Paracast have referred to this movie as a possible contaminate to people's memory or beliefs. I might be nuts but somehow I think there is a correlation with this film and people's experiences,I don't know what it is but it seems to be prevalent, whether real or imagined. What do you think?
 
trilithium said:
Watching that movie can have many different effects on people, brownies or not. Your description of it was quite funny! I can't overstate what an impact that film had on my life, generally speaking. I have never had a Paranormal experience but that film opened my eyes so to speak to the Paranormal.
David and many guests of the Paracast have referred to this movie as a possible contaminate to people's memory or beliefs. I might be nuts but somehow I think there is a correlation with this film and people's experiences,I don't know what it is but it seems to be prevalent, whether real or imagined. What do you think?
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I think that it was just the first blockbuster film to address the issue. The special effects were great and the acting was top-notch. Hence it became a classic. Thus, it is in the minds of people because it was so cutting edge.
 
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