At What Age Did You Become Interested in UFOs?

[mike]

i grew up with Dr who, and gerry andersons UFO and captain scarlett, so all my life i guess .
i remember we moved house when i was five to be closer to a school and i have memories of watching UFO the tv series and Dr who in that house so from at least 4 years old but possibly earlier

[Ankhes]

I was about 10 or 12 when "Close Encounters" and "Star Wars" came out. I don't recall the exact years of those movies but they were late 70's. I was interested in the subject by those movies and by Star Trek and other tv shows, plus I read lots of comics.
The Paracast is helping me learn more about the subject and take a greater interest in it.

[POLTERGEIST82]

It was around the age of 7 around the time when E.T. came out. Even though I had already seen the re-release of Close Encounters (at the drive-in hehe), I was still a little too young to know what that movie was about.

[Tommy Allison]

Age 6.

[Artyom]

I've been fascinating with the phenomena since....I guess since the age 12. I remember tons of newspaper articles stored in my folder, well of course the majority of them had been written at classic mass media style:-)

[Flatwoods]

My first exposure to the whole UFO mystery was seeing a documentary called Strange Harvest on TV in 1980. I was eight years old at the time, and the cattle mutilation stuff scared the hell out of me. A couple of years later I found a copy of The Andreasson Affair at the local library, and then got interested in old re-runs of In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy.

Later, in high school, I became fascinated with Whitley Streiber and Budd Hopkins- so much so that wrote my end-of-semester tenth grade English report on the subject. My written and oral report covered everything about UFO's from the Roswell Crash to alien abductions, and my classmates loved. A few of them did their reports on UFO's also.

Since then my interest in the subject has waned a lot, and I've turned into a total skeptic on almost everything. I still think the mystery is worthy of study though, because it reveals a lot about human nature and psychology.

[Live at the Witch Trials]

I remember when we were kids and our parents were broke and mean spirited to boot. We had nothing of entertainment value whatsoever but i had this friend who lived nearby and he had this HardBacked book Arthur C Clarkes mysterious World and boy how we would look at it.

On the Jacket was a photograph of a Crystal skull. We would sit on the wall surrounding my friends house reading the book together it had everything Ghosts , UFO'S Sasquatch etc,

We used to have really interesting conversations after reading this book and we realised that man was not the be all and end all, there was some things that we as a species did not know.

They were long summer evenings i was about 9 years old and ive never stopped wondering ever since.

[schticknz]

[quote=Live at the Witch Trials;29551]I remember when we were kids and our parents were broke and mean spirited to boot. We had nothing of entertainment value whatsoever but i had this friend who lived nearby and he had this HardBacked book Arthur C Clarkes mysterious World and boy how we would look at it.

On the Jacket was a photograph of a Crystal skull. We would sit on the wall surrounding my friends house reading the book together it had everything Ghosts , UFO'S Sasquatch etc
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My god ... I think I remember seeing that book at the local library ... that takes me back a bit.

But what is more important is ... "Live at the Witch Trials" ... The Fall ... well I never ... really never expected to see a Fall fan on here. Stone the flaming crows-uh.

[Digression: I took my moniker, "schtick"(nz) from the cover of a Fall album ... which one?? Oh one of the earlier ones ... may have been "This Nation's Saving Grace"]

Still Mark E Smith has mentioned "pre-cognition" at least a few times maybe (its sometimes difficult to tell with MES) so maybe The Fall isn't so strange on a website and forum about the paranormal.

Yours Bombast-ically-uh

schtick-uh

[Live at the Witch Trials]

[quote=schticknz;29896][quote=Live at the Witch Trials;29551]I remember when we were kids and our parents were broke and mean spirited to boot. We had nothing of entertainment value whatsoever but i had this friend who lived nearby and he had this HardBacked book Arthur C Clarkes mysterious World and boy how we would look at it.

On the Jacket was a photograph of a Crystal skull. We would sit on the wall surrounding my friends house reading the book together it had everything Ghosts , UFO'S Sasquatch etc

My god ... I think I remember seeing that book at the local library ... that takes me back a bit.

But what is more important is ... "Live at the Witch Trials" ... The Fall ... well I never ... really never expected to see a Fall fan on here. Stone the flaming crows-uh.

[Digression: I took my moniker, "schtick"(nz) from the cover of a Fall album ... which one?? Oh one of the earlier ones ... may have been "This Nation's Saving Grace"]

Still Mark E Smith has mentioned "pre-cognition" at least a few times maybe (its sometimes difficult to tell with MES) so maybe The Fall isn't so strange on a website and forum about the paranormal.

Yours Bombast-ically-uh

schtick-uh

Your right there about Mark E Smith being something of a pre-cog.

Here are a few song's that are uncannily Precognitive.

Terry Waite sez
Spencer must Die........(written before Lady Dianas tragic accident)
Powder Keg ........... (written proir to an I.R.A. bomb that was detonated in Manchester City Centre, one of the biggest bombs to go off in the UK mainland)

There are many others too.

I'm suprised that somebody here actualy picked up on my name.

I salute you schticknz.

[schticknz]

Originally Posted by Live at the Witch Trials

I'm suprised that somebody here actualy picked up on my name.

I salute you schticknz.

Its a pleasure ... we're definitely in a very select club us Fall fans.

But god I'm gonna have to dig out my Fall albums now but where the hell do I start? Oh I know ... the beginning

And just to scare the kiddies (and those grown-ups who have never bumped into the Fall ... shame on you if you haven't) here is a (not-so) scarey pic of the greatest living Englishman, Mr Mark Edward Smith ... just because I can

Don't have nightmares-uh

schtick ... ... ... -uh

ps Wasn't "Free Range" about the war in the Balkans before it even happened?? Can't quite remember since it was a while a go now ... but that could be another pre-cog-sinister moment :P