ET visits Newbury?

Maybe the extraterrestrials read my blog and wanted to check out the crazy doings in Newbury ...

Two local men swear they saw a UFO over I-95 near Byfield (part of Newbury) yesterday morning. Read the full story here.

The piece talks about a UFO sighting in Exeter, NH: The Exeter incident was one of the best documented in the folklore of UFO sightings. It happened on Sept. 3, 1965, when several New Hampshire residents believed they saw a UFO traveling overhead.

The first to report it was Norman Muscarello, 18, who was walking along Route 150 in Kensington, N.H., at 2 a.m. after visiting his girlfriend in Amesbury, when he saw a strange glow in the sky.

Moments later, Muscarello said he saw an orb of red and blue lights.

"I didn't know what it was, but it was as big as a house," Muscarello recounted in the book, "Sightings: UFO" written by Susan Michaels and published in 1997. "It had a red hue and flashing lights, sometimes in sequence, sometimes erratic."

My cousin and I saw something that sounds exactly like this one night in Michigan, when we were approaching a football field to watch a JV game. It was hovering over the field, but high enough up that people in the stadium would not necessarily have noticed, if they weren't looking straight up.

I honestly don't know if anyone else noticed because we looked at it, commented on it, and went on our merry way to watch the game and said nothing to anyone else.

I liked this: When asked if there were any unique planes in the area, a skeptic Jim Peters, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said, "Our agency doesn't have the time or the resources to look into such things."

I notice that in the Exeter sighting, because police also saw whatever it was, Air Force officers were sent on up there to investigate.

My thought on UFOs is this: it's extremely arrogant to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe, or any universe. Even if one believes in God, it's still unlikely a God would start and/or stop at us. Unless he was assigned this planet - but who is doing the assigning, in that case?

It boggles the mind, doesn't it?