Descendants Are Descending

Dr. Bruce Goldberg has concluded that as many as 15 percent of "alien abductions" are committed by time-traveling humans from 1,000 to 3,000 years in the future.

In one dramatic case, one of Dr. Goldberg's abductee patients reported a time traveler using holograms aboard a UFO to reveal several of this patient's past lives. When this patient asked why he abducted her, this chrononaut informed her that he was her great-great-great... grandson! [Link]

The APG's Code of Ethics doesn't ban the abduction of ancestors, so I guess this is permitted. I'm open to being abducted and interviewed by some future genealogist, but please—no probing.

Buried Far From Home

An airship crashed into a windmill in Aurora, Wise County, Texas, the morning of April 17, 1897. An article in the Dallas Morning News reported that its place of origin was extraterrestrial.

The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one on board, and while his remains are badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.

The article closed with, "The pilot's funeral will take place at noon to-morrow." I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at that funeral.

Some years later, the Texas Historical Commission placed a marker at the entrance to the town cemetery, which mentioned that "This site is also well-known because of the legend that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897 and the pilot, killed in the crash, was buried here." According to this page, the alien was buried beneath a round rock (since stolen) under the limb of an oak tree.

The 411 on UFO FOI Requests

From Silicon.com:

Nazi gold to UFOs - National Archives frees information

Case study: The National Archives invests £150,000 to prepare for FOI requests

By Dan Ilett

Published: Wednesday 14 September 2005

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The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January this year. Under the law, public sector organisations including central government, local councils, emergency services and health authorities are obliged to make most of their information available within 20 working days of receiving a request.

This meant the [U.K. National Archives] needed to have systems that could handle requests for information from the public.

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[Dr Chris Owens, head of e-access development services] added: "We were on a very tight timescale - we finished testing in October or November. We had the system in one or two weeks later. We didn't go live until a week before January."

But after the rush to prepare, and although it has seen more requests than any other government department, the NA received fewer enquiries than expected.

"We get enquiries on Nazi gold, and on UFOs but most of the information we're asked for is about family history," he said.

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