Maury Island Incident

It was a sunny day in 1947 when suddenly a UFO appeared in the skies over Maury Island in Washington State.  This was the first real sighting, well, let's say the first real verifiable sighting.  How real?  Well, there was a fair number of witnesses on both sides of Puget Sound and some physical evidence no one could explain away.

You see, the saucer became stationary over the beach area on Maury Island and then some part of it exploded.  Proof?  Well, how about a dead dog and, a man and his teen aged son in a boat fishing whom were hit by flying debris and injured enough to require hospitalization.  And then there was the man on the dock under the saucer.  Yeah.....

In the following days and weeks, Maury Island was to be descended upon by the Sheriff's office, Washington State Patrol, the FBI, the Army and a questionable group dressed all in black whom thought they owned the island and took complete control.  And then there was the problem of "aliens" making a surprise visit several more times.

Weird enough yet for you?

How about one of the survivors of the incident, whom had been injured by the explosion, writing a book to remind people it really did happen, and getting the local media and businesses to start a campaign to get a movie made of this?

And so, a saucer was constructed, a crash staged just blocks from my house, and I was there!

It was great fun!

About 400 came out, many dressed in alien costumes, some quite inventive, there were two flash mob dances, lots of smoke from the crash and an official alien emerged!  It was one of the local celebrity horticulturalists whom is well liked here.  He emerged from the smoke with a huge bag of brussel sprouts and began throwing them at the crowd! It was a great deal of fun and a real hoot!

And yes, even a picture of me at my lowest weight since about 2000!  Yeah, I lost 35 pounds last year, have kept it off and lost a further 10 this year so far!  All I did was shift my big meal of the day to lunch and a small meal, no seconds, for dinner.  So very happy.  Of course, in this little contest, one of my cousins has lost 190 pounds and she was featured on the Biggest Loser last year and the other cousin lost almost 260 pounds! to date.  Yeah, they got me whipped but I am still lighter than either of them as of this point!

So, it was a very fun afternoon and evening!