GNIRPS:
Yes, we have no Bananas, but Bandana is close. Close to Monkey’s Eyebrow that is. And formerly Skillet. Have a great day!
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“Thank you GNIRPS for you contribution to the F&HE! blog. Now to my information this morning. I have a very serious topic to talk about. Contact with aliens. This is something I haven’t relayed yet about Ashville, our future home. I’ve discussed, I believe (I hope) that it has been a past home as well for me, but only for about 3 years. Yes, we got tired of it then. A return to Blue Mountain, the wife and I’s college town, was inevitable. We see that of course. What we didn’t see until very recently is that we had to return and then leave. Retirement will not be sitting in one place for 10, 20, 30 years and waiting for the end. Well, unless it’s Ashville. But we also plan to go to the UK, to Wiltshire in particular. But I digress. The subject this morning is aliens. Just happens that during my Ashville stay during the early 90’s, I saw, very plainly and clearly, a *UFO* there, and of the classic *saucer* design. I saw this UFO out the back window of my apartment just north of Ashville’s large and very cool downtown district. You could see Ashville’s skyline behind the huge UFO appearing outside my window. How big was it? Well… big. Colored lights kind of flashed in a cycle around the circumference. Green and orange as I recall, maybe blue as well (?) The dish shaped object was tilted to the right. Let me see if I can dig up a comparable photo online… hold on…
It was also tilted backwards, so if it had the “traditional” turret it remained out of side on the far side I couldn’t see. Or perhaps I was looking at it frontwards. I say this because it was dark during the sighting and as I remember the UFO was darker than the surrounding trees and sky. I can’t remember any details about the saucer except for the lights and the shape. And the size! I’m not sure how a UFO of that size could appear in the small parking space behind my apartment. And an even odder thing: when I checked the next morning, I realized that the Ashville skyline was also hidden by the building I was in, so I *couldn’t* have seen the skyline that night. The skyline was *almost* visible but I’d have to be leaning impossibly far out the window that night to see it. And I didn’t have the window open.
How did I happen to be looking out this bedroom window to see the UFO? Well, I was awoken by a strong white light coming through it and illuminating the room. I immediately jumped up out of bed and went to see what the source was. I guessed “UFO” as soon as my brain was jumpstarted.
There’s more to the story, including a movie we viewed just before the wife left that night dealing with, yeah, aliens (this was shortly before we got married, and she was living in a different apartment, more out in the country). I might have doubted the sighting more except it had happened before. The wife and I both saw a UFO plain as day while driving in southern Virginia in 1985. That’s another story in and of itself. But the UFO then wasn’t the classic saucer shape. It appeared more like The Enterprise vessel of Star Trek. The Ashville UFO was a simple disk from my perspective. A very dark disk with flashing lights around the edges.
Let’s return to the tiny community of Saucer, Alabama, then, on Pineapple Highway which leads to Pine Apple in the neighboring county to the west. Could *that* Saucer* relate to *Ashville’s* saucer, since the same town, during its continued mystification process, has attracted so many other fruit related names?
I’m very tempted to call one of Ashville’s as yet un-mystified neighborhoods Pineapple. A logical choice would be the neighborhood where I saw the UFO in the early 90’s. The apartment I was staying in lies only a couple of city blocks south of the now central Cherry-Lime, a fully mystified name. I’m also thinking that there was a town within the town, perhaps a toy avatar town or other type of “alien” avatar, existing just north of the mouth of Linden Creek, and on land now called either Read Park or Read Creek Park or Earl Weaver Park that’s the northern half of a determined two-part Google Maps Street View art event. I’m thinking the name of this community might be Orchard or Orchard City, like the conglomerate town in Colorado we’ve briefly touched upon before made up of Austin, Cory, and Eckert moving south to north. A(B)C(D)E, then. The first letter (of four) of TILE (“I”).
There was no noise that I recall.
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