Look up.
Look around.
We never know what it is we might see.
For.
On this date, January 18, 1644, a group of perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America’s first UFO sighting.
It was recorded by a man named John Winthrop.
John Winthrop kept a journal of the trials and tribulations of his fellow Puritan newbies as they made a new life in America. He served as the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. And he made it his job to put pen to paper and record their daily happenings.
And with that came the sighting. A few men from the community were out on a boat one evening, rowing along. They saw some funky, weird lights over the Charles River behaving erratically before speedily disappearing over the horizon. They had not been drinking, just rowing.
A couple of more sightings occurred around the same time. Different people. But the same general area.
And so it goes when we look up and look around.
We never know what we might see.
Don’t let us blink. It might pass us by.
Or maybe there is not a single thing passing by.
And so, we blink.
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“To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the
existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far
more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped
and filmed and, by the way, unexplained sightings from all over the
world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced
military and civilian radar operators.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
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“There is no generally accepted procedure in identifying UFO.”
― Toba Beta
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” — Saint Augustine
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Blink and we might miss the whole thing.
