Ever since the incident at Roswell, you couldn’t go five feet in any direction in America without seeing, hearing or being abducted by aliens. Newspapers, radio, television, and yes even the Weekly World News was hard-pressed to prevent the alien encroachment into the main stream of our
lives. Our belief and fascination with the little green men became a national pastime. Alien mythology has been woven into our past. Researchers began to pull back the blankets of time and hunt for evidence that the aliens were not a new occurrence; they sought out to prove aliens have been influencing the evolution of mankind from some of the earliest civilizations. Extraterrestrials have been credited with such amazing feats as the lei lines in South America, the pyramids in Egypt, and even the directorial career of Steven Spielberg. With the E.T. pop culture raging into the early eighties, it seemed nothing would stop the aliens from total world invasion. They were stealing our cattle, stealing our rednecks, and worst of all they were stealing our box office with such hits as M.I.B., and Independence Day. When the New Year’s bell tolled out on January 1, 2000, we watched and waited for Y2K to end our technological age, some of us with decades supplies of canned ravioli. What we didn’t see was the marking point of an end of the alien epidemic. It has been seven years people and with each passing year there is heard less and less about the alien crisis. We moved on to Superheroes, stomach turning mutilation films, and televised karaoke. The cattle can sleep easy, the final sign has come.
Sep
29