(1706) Evening all.

 

17. Interesting younger viewpoint

16. Ties in with Sat 9

The whole notion of believing officially handed down, versus rejecting anything researched … is human folly writ large:

15. Another I’d not give a penny to anymore

14. Significant events we’ve observed

Doesn’t need to be world renowned, can just be weird or a watershed or whatever … the main thing is you need to have observed it personally to list it. I can imagine those living through the war would have seen a thing or two.

a. Halley’s comet, Thursday, April 10th, 1986:

I actually saw it with my eyes, plus through the telescope … but we were quite lucky because there was cloud cover, but it broke long enough to observe. Only a vague memory of its shape, think it was going right to left and away from us, up high of course.

One of the boys in my class at the time … his father had a country property south-west of town, it was a party.

b. Probably have to put the moon landing (if it occurred):

Sunday July 20th, 1969, time I can’t remember, I had a bakelite type radio with knobs in my bedhead.

c. My third I’m listing was the UFO over a cliff on a rocky point:

It was mid evening, north-east coast of Britain, I’d retired for the evening, boarding house, maybe 1991 or 92, a hubbub brought me outside … everyone observing … no shots taken I ever saw, it was a light but certainly looked to be an object hovering above the hotel on the point, possibly half the size of the hotel, itself a mile or so away, maybe three such hotel sizes up, definitely hovering, no colour involved at night.

Maybe three, four minutes, then suddenly it took off on an upwards diagonal, disappeared, mach whatever. Just light? Seemed an object. Years later, someone I knew who worked MoD said it was not far from one of the hush-hush centres … there are a few in Britain.