Rant #3,941: Out of Limits

Well, I guess I got through the first day of my personal "Week of Hell" in one piece.

I saw both my dermatologist and my retinologist on Monday morning, and I guess I am OK, for right now, in those regards.

Today begins my further horrors leading up to Friday, when I actually have to get a procedure done, so yes, I am counting the days.

Mother's Day was really just another day for my family and I.

We had some plans for Saturday, they were scuttled, so even though I wanted to go out to a restaurant on Saturday--our son works on Sunday, so I figured we could celebrate as a family a day early--but my wife didn't want to go out, with bad weather about.

So I brought in food that she wanted from the local pizza parlor, and that was pretty much that.

My son and I gave my wife cards for the celebration on Sunday, but my gift to her had not arrived in the mail by Sunday, so I gave it to her when it came on Monday.

So, you can say that I am off and running ...

Hopefully more on than off.

Onto other things ...

I see that the government has released an entire trove of UFO-related files, from the 1950s to the current time.

It really doesn't mean much of anything, but it still engenders a lot of curiosity.

The clips and photos are grainy--even the more recent ones--and who knows whether what is contained in these clips are factual--

Or just fun.

The way you can explain these things are many, including:

1) They are, in fact, UFOs, or, as they are now referred to, "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" (UAP).

2) They were sighted, but they were weather balloons or there are other reasons for their existence.

3) They were actual flying vessels, but were sent over here by foreign powers--and yes, we probably did the same thing to them, too.

Personally, I do believe that the existence of these photos and images are a combination of all three reasons, and like President Trump said, it is up to us to decide what they represent and "to have fun with it."

I don't believe we are the only beings in the galaxy, I do believe that some of these things were real, but it is probably a mix of the reasons I wrote about above.

Heck, even astronauts have seen some strange things when they are in outer space, so I won't question their logic.

And yes, I have had my own experience with a UFO, or at least what I thought was one.

It must have been sometime in the early to mid 1980s, I was driving home at night--well after midnight--and about a block away from where I lived, I saw something right in front of me in the sky.

It was illuminated, moving in weird directions, many of them side to side.

I got home, got out of my car, and I didn't do anything much about it.

I went to sleep, and that was that.

I don't remember the next day, but in the very next local Newsday newspaper--what amounted to two days after I saw what I saw--there was a story about people seeing the same thing that I did at the same time of night.

Newsday checked around, and it was listed as an errant weather balloon.

I didn't buy that explanation then, and I don't believe it now.

An "errant weather balloon" does not move side to side like this thing did ...

So was it, in fact, an "errant weather balloon" or some type of flying object from a foreign country, or was it really a UFO?

I would like to think that it was a UFO, but who knows?

The one thing I do know is that if it wasn't an (U)nidentified (F)lying (O)bject, it certainly wasn't--

An (U)nidentified (F)igment of My Imagination (O)bject, that's for sure!