An X File

After 60+ years, it's time somebody revealed what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in July '47, and I guess I'm elected.

An engine malfunction forced my ship down on that sheep ranch.  Nervous about all those sheep staring at my claws, I ran to a nearby town and hid in a dark movie theater, just in time to see Flash Gordon strangle an extra-terrestrial.  Yikes!  I should have phoned home then, but I didn't, I stuck around for "The Purple Monster Strikes."  Double yikes!

There were a lot of movies that portrayed extra-terrestrials as monsters --- "War of the Worlds," "Invaders From Mars," "Invasion of the Saucer Men," etc.  In "The Day the Earth Stood Still," an E.T. on a mission of peace was shot as he stepped off his ship.  In "The Thing," an E.T. was shot, fried, dismembered, and electrocuted.

Today, we're portrayed as bugs.  Bugs you want to step on.  Anything you don't understand, you step on.

You Earthlings are nuts!

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