“Have you ever seen a UFO?” Interview #11
Idyllopus Press: OK, we’re recording now. Have you ever seen a UFO?
Software Developer: I have.
Idyllopus Press: You have? Really? Tell me about it.
Software Developer: I don’t remember too much other than it was at high school, during the day time, over the high school…
Idyllopus Press: This was in Augusta, Georgia.
Software Developer: Yes. I saw a sort of a silver elongated thing, sort of in the distance, flying not over the school but past the school. It didn’t look like a plane but it may have been.
Idyllopus Press: OK.
Software Developer: I couldn’t identify it.
Idyllopus Press: OK. So this was in the afternoon?
Software Developer: Yes, in the afternoon.
Idyllopus Press: Did it just track out of sight, you watched it slowly going out of sight?
Software Developer: I followed it for about a minute or so and then lost interest.
Idyllopus Press (laughing): Ok. That was some spectacular UFO sighting, hmmm? Very. It really held your attention there. The aliens weren’t too exciting.
(Laughter.)
Software Developer: Or I wasn’t too exciting to them.
Idyllopus Press: They weren’t too worried about you, were they?
Software Developer: They weren’t in the mood for an abudction that day.
Idyllopus Press: And they didn’t feel like they had to run off quickly when you saw them. What year was this?
Software Developer: 1976 to 1978, somewhere in there.
Idyllopus Press: Do you know anybody who’s seen a UFO?
Software Developer: Yes.
Idyllopus Press: Who?
Software Developer: My mother and my sister saw one in Chattanooga. Which….they didn’t know what it was…now, they didn’t say it was from outer space…
Idyllopus Press: OK.
Software Developer: The thought was it was some sort of military aircraft but it sure had a lot of flashing lights if it was.
Idyllopus Press: Have you ever dreamt about UFOs?
Software Developer: No, I’ve never dreamt about UFOs.
Idyllopus Press: Now, the second question is what is the most interesting synchronicity you’ve ever experienced?
Software Developer: Most interesting. I mean I have synchronicities but none of them really are interesting.
Idyllopus Press: OK.
Software Developer: Where I’d think of a song I hadn’t heard in years and later on in the morning I would hear it.
Idyllopus Press: I know that happens a lot to some people. I’ve had that happen.
Software Developer: I’ve had that happen on quite a few occasions.
Idyllopus Press: Can you think of a specific song?
Software Developer: No.
Idyllopus Press: I can’t either.
Software Developer: And there was an odd synchronicity the other day. Let me think. You might want to turn that off while I think. (Indicates the recorder.)
Idyllopus Press: No that’s all right, I’ve got plenty of battery and memory here.
Software Developer: It might run out. Oh, OK. I’ve been thinking about doing a website.
Idyllopus Press: OK.
Software Developer: And the theme of the website would be green living.
Idyllopus Press: Oh, green living? All right.
Software Developer: Yeah. That sort of thing. Ever since I started riding the bus to work, I would, I’ve been thinking more of, you know, being departed from the use of fossil fuels…
Idyllopus Press: All right.
Software Developer: So I’ve been thinking about what website. So I thought of a website name the other day and, oddly enough, that evening, my wife came up with the same name for the website.
Idyllopus Press: That’s cool, I like that. That’s a good synchronicity.
Software Developer: I’m trying to think of what the name was. It’s…maybe by the end of…
Idyllopus Press: Well, you don’t have to give it. You don’t want anyone to steal it in the first place, you want to keep it a secret…
Software Developer: Well, I found out that someone had already taken it.
Idyllopus Press: Oh. OK.
Software Developer: Probably in India or something like that.
Idyllopus Press: You can’t remember what it was?
Software Developer: I’ll probably remember it by the end of the interview.
Idyllopus Press: That was a good synchronicity. We do a lot of that kind of thing around our household.
Software Developer: That was just the other day though and I thought it was so weird we both independently came up with the same name.
Idyllopus Press: The third question is if you have a story to tell, your story, unlikely that anyone else would have that story to tell, what would it be?
Software Developer: I wouldn’t say unlikely.
H.o.p.: The third question!
H.o.p. sings the first few notes of Beethoven’s Fifth.
Software Developer: Uhm. This was an interesting thing that happened to my wife and I when we were living up in Woodstock, Georgia. We were driving…we were on our way home one night from Alpharetta, and we saw a falling star but it was actually a meteorite that hit a field probably…probably 200 feet away. I mean it was just spectacular. If we could do it all over again I wish we had stopped the car and I’d just scoured the field but it was at night. But I thought that was an interesting moment. I don’t think too many people would have encountered that…
Idyllopus Press: So close…
Software Developer: When they were with someone.
Idyllopus Press: Interesting as long as it doesn’t plunge through your car.
Software Developer: No.
Idyllopus Press: Ok, well thank you.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I’m replying here but it isn’t specifically about this entry. I was thinking about the
fact that it seems like you’ve not had too much trouble finding people who’ve seen UFOs. I’d have thought it might have been a more rare event than it would seem. Interesting. Not sure what to make of that.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Well, I’ve got less than a dozen interviews so far and that’s no base for thinking in terms of broad encompassing percentages. The next 10 interviews may have not a single person who’s seen a UFO.
I am finding the interviews difficult in that usually there are things going on around that distract so I end up not getting to ask the kind of questions I’d like for presenting the scene and establishing context.