Saturday, June 9, 2012

Starman 1

Back in the 1950s there were all those reports of UFO sightings and it seemed everyone, everywhere was seeing flying saucers and little green men - mostly in the USA. All of it, well most of it, was complete nonsense.

It seems just a few of those sightings actually were of something "not of this world".

It was in 1959 in Iowa and it was a saucer shaped space craft. Three times previously similar crafts to this one  had flown close to the surface of Earth to see what they could find out. This time though, this craft actually landed, dropped off 6 of its occupants then left again - not to return for another 10 "Earth" years. In that time the occupants who were dropped off spread out across the globe to try and investigate this world that was so similar to their own.

They were not green men, in fact, they looked very similar to the humans of Earth. This allowed them to blend in with the humans where ever they went in their quest for information. They communicated with each other by a series of vocal noises that sounded like clicks and pops and beats. But they did not spend much time together while they were on Earth. As soon as they landed they all went their separate ways to gather their information then to meet up again in 10 years when the craft that dropped them off would pick them up again to return home with all the knowledge they had gained.

This all went well. They all spent the 10 years learning, without being discovered for what they really were (mostly) and gathered back together in 1969 and returned home to their planet to let the others of their kind know exactly what they had found about the Earth.

All of them, that is, except for one...

This is his story...

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