War of the Words: The True but Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze Ufo by Craig R. Myers

Author:Craig R. Myers [Myers, Craig R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction, Humor, General
ISBN: 9781465326775
Google: ZV385o0gPbUC
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2006-10-26T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

When Worlds Collide

Combating mysterious and sinister forces from a galaxy far, far away is not as clean and sterile as slicing Darth Vader open with a light saber and picking off Storm Troopers like ducks in a carnival shoot. No sir. Whatever the UFOs had emptied like bilge water into the minds of Gulf Breeze residents had soaked in and taken root like the pods in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

OK, that’s quite enough sci-fi analogies for one chapter, sorry . . .

Anyway, by summer of 1990, the belief that UFOs were visiting the humid Gulf Coast had dug in deep, and was spreading like kudzu weeds across the country and the globe, attracting blow-dried, hair-sprayed television personalities, New Age groupies with whacked-out theories on sexual relations between aliens and earthlings, European space buffs, gullible grade school students being dragged along on field trips and Japanese film crews searching for the newest model American pop-psychological, belief systems to import back to the land of the Rising Sun.

Anyone who has ever walked on the beach, at least down here, knows how easy it is for sand spurs to latch onto your socks and pants legs like Velcro. It is nature’s way of spreading this irritating and useless plant that exists only to perpetuate its own existence. After it attaches, you walk a few steps before you feel its pin-prick sting on your ankle or leg. Reaching down with an assortment of curses you clamp your fingers around the offending seed. Ouch again! Then, angry that the burs are now drawing blood from your fingers, you fling in to the ground and stomp it for good measure—which is exactly what Nature wants you to do to the sand spur. You have in effect moved and planted it, therefore assuring it will spawn another pesky brood to prick the next guy.

This life force that attached itself to the Gulf Breeze peninsula was sticking like a sand spur, and trying to pick it out was becoming just as painful. Our attempts so far to stamp it out seemed to have only caused it to grow even more, and spread even faster.

Fighting this alien invasion had proved to be a messy affair, unlike the campy sci-fi movies of the 1950s. It was becoming more and more like an intergalactic Vietnam and it looked like there may never be a clear winner. This was no scientific discourse, governed by the rules of evidence, logic and empirical thought, where professionals could offer points and counterpoints. Scientific debates find common ground in the laws of nature—which both sides stipulate to—and employ tools such as Bunsen burners, test tubes and calculators.

The bitter blood sport known as UFO research had no such anchor in reality. It was more like a medieval siege or World War I trench warfare. The basic premise itself—whether or not we are being visited by beings not of this world—encompasses religion, philosophy, politics, mythology, archaeology, photography and psychology. The game begins when someone reports sighting or being picked up by a craft of unknown origin.

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