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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

A cloudless Welsh sky

Sheep upturned, cows set ablaze

The skies are watching

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Honeygloom's avatar

Tbh I thought night when I read sky, so you probably all good 😊 Also, were the cows literally set ablaze? That’s a terrifying encounter!

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Honeygloom's avatar

😅*you’re

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Looking at it again, perhaps that first line should read: “A cloudless Welsh night”.

But we are what we are when we are where we are, no?

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erniet's avatar

Roswell is the place

Where aliens crashed and burned;

Party animals!

😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Love this! Like a UFO DUI😂

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erniet's avatar

Never drink and hyperdrive...😂

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Thea Wood's avatar

Small-minded humans

Alone in the Universe?

A great waste of space

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! I see what you did there, very clever🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

How callest thou me

Unknown, for I am like thee

Step thou in my ship

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Love this take! Works as a historical reference, or as a pretty funny space alien encounter🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Yeah, Shakespearean alien, maybe. Chortle guffaw!

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MS Rivera's avatar

Spinning disk dives down

Lights blinking, parts rattling, crash!

A humanoid dies

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love this scene!! So vivid in such a small space🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

My mashpotato sculpture tells the place;

gathering lights tell me the hour -

play your notes and let the dance begin!

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Honeygloom's avatar

I feel like there *must* be a reference here to something. But if it’s just a loon and their delusion, I’m hungry and ready to dance 👽

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

It's the Spielberg movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Richard Dreyfus's mashed potato sculpting in that was iconic when I was a kid.

A movie that holds up very well, arguably the best early Spielberg after Jaws.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Defined heard of it! And I’ve been to Devil’s Tower actually. Absolutely being place.

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

Our lasers call them.

They respond with bold displays

of engineering.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very cool take!Aliens out-science us as opposed to just attacking 🖤

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Diehard “X-Files” fanatic here:

Truth is out there, Fox

Scully doubts, but follows still

Shadows hide secrets

Mulder's sister gone

A lifelong quest for answers

The truth eludes still

Ancient cave paintings

Depict odd beings from sky

Visitors or gods?

Crop circles appear

Geometric mystery

Farmers scratch their heads

Desert lights flicker

Radar shows nothing there, yet

Pilots swear they saw

Alien black oil

Infects and controls its hosts

Conspiracy grows

Government denies

While witnesses tell their truths

Who can we believe?

Cigarette smoke swirls

Shadowy men plot in rooms

What do they all know?

Missing time puzzles

Hypnosis reveals strange tales

What really happened?

Abduction scars fade

But memories haunt the night

Who can they trust now?

Skinner torn between

Duty and the search for truth

Allies hard to find

Evidence vanished

Files redacted, leads go cold

Yet they persevere

Lone Gunmen aid them

Hacking secrets, spreading truth

In their bulletins

The syndicate looms

Alien colonization

Can it be stopped now?

Scully's faith tested

Science and the unexplained

Collide in her mind

Believers gather

Under starlit desert skies

Waiting for contact

The struggle goes on

Mulder and Scully seek truth

The X-Files never end

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Honeygloom's avatar

I was thinking about a re-watch, but now I don’t even need to! Wow, what a great recap!

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erniet's avatar

It flies through the air

With the greatest of ease, thing

From the outer void...

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Honeygloom's avatar

Thinking of the Tic Tac video? Pretty cool one, too.

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erniet's avatar

I've never heard of the Tic Tac video...I'll check it out!

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Honeygloom's avatar

It’s so cool!

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erniet's avatar

I just looked it up...I had seen that before! It is cool...

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erniet's avatar

Fourteen men, five planes

Flew through a cloudless blue sky

UFOs got them...

(an homage to Flight 19)

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Honeygloom's avatar

That’s a crazy one! Probably one of my fave UFO stories.

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Is it aliens?

It's probably a frisbee,

Or some sort of drone... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

I bet so many are drones. Would be so cool to see a real one though🤞

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

A lot of them are fake, for sure. But drones have at least made it more exciting and sophisticated than just dangling spacecraft models from a fishing rod. Haha... 😎

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Dustin's avatar

Yes. Like Mulder, I definitely "want to believe."🙂

Very excited for this prompt!

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Running Elk's avatar

Gun metal storm clouds threaten -

Nowhere to run to.

Then rushing sound, wheeling wheels.

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Running Elk's avatar

Or if you prefer a traditional 5-7-5:

Gun metal storm clouds -

Abandoned church in distance.

Suddenly a ship.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I prefer whatever you’ve got! Tbh I am not a stickler for rules😊

Which is to say, I like both versions! The cloud description is so vivid, I love it, and the abandoned church is also such a lonely visual. Really well done🖤

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Running Elk's avatar

It's actually a true story.

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Honeygloom's avatar

No way! This happened to you?😱

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Running Elk's avatar

It was a dream or vision, but very real. Here's the full account:-

Cliff-top – I was standing on the edge of very high cliffs looking out over a stormy sea. The Sky was getting darker and there were heavy storm clouds coming in from the south-west, that were the color of gun metal.

Among the clouds I saw formations of hundreds of war planes coming in with the clouds. I realized that it was time to move, so I went inland a little way in search of some place of safety, or some people, but there was nothing but an old abandoned church that was locked. So I returned to the Cliff-edge. Then I heard a great

sound of rushing and vibrating like a helicopter, except that it was almost like it was alive with sound and rushing energy, and suddenly I was in the craft and being taken over the sea.

The sight of an enormous beacon, like a lighthouse with a circling spotlight acted as a kind of power source that first drew us towards it then acted as a sling-shot, taking us out over the ocean."

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David Perlmutter's avatar

You think that they have the right name for something, and then they go and replace it with a far more pretentious one.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I know right!? Like I need another acronym floating around in my brain.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

j. jones says sip, follow me

They will come. 300+ died.

No one picked them up for believing.

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Honeygloom's avatar

You might be mixing the Peoples Temple up with Heaven’s Gate. Jim Jones mixed the “Kool Aide” because he was about to get nabbed by the Feds and convinced everyone in the cult that they’d go to jail, too. 900+ died.

Heaven’s Gate was more like 40, but they thought aliens were going to pick them up when the Hale-Bopp comet came by… or pick their spirits up? Can’t remember exactly why they killed themselves.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Thanks for correcting. Time warp got to me. But Belize was the place.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah, I gotta thing for cults😏

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erniet's avatar

Flashing lights fly by

Stop and hover in the night

Then zip away again

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love how almost quotidian you make this sound, almost like an imagined future🖤

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erniet's avatar

Thanks; I actually saw lights that did this once as a kid…have no idea what it was!😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

I saw something weird too as a kid. I told my dad about it and in true engineer fashion he said, “Air Force base is near here, whatever you saw, it’s military.”I was like 9😂

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erniet's avatar

Where Ingrew up there wasn’t any military bases nearby…that we knew of…🤔😂

I don’t think what Insaw was alien…it was just freaky weird though!

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