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Credit: TBA, Peter Kenter
Could UFOs help us avoid the high-price of gasoline by carrying us to our destination?
There was a skit on the 1980s comedy program The New Show in which Buck Henry and Candice Bergen played a couple on a vacation drive. Bergen’s forgotten the camera, but they press on. Soon, they’re treated to a Bigfoot sighting, a nest of prehistoric pterodactyls and other assorted phenomena. Aliens eventually land in a UFO at a roadside rest stop, then offer to pose for a photo — as long as they make it snappy.
Today, everybody has a camera in their car, even if it’s just a cellphone. You would think we’d have taken some decent photos of a ghost horse or flying saucer by now. Instead, we get fuzzy photos of the moon with a speck in front of it.
My brother Ed likes to investigate this sort of thing. I’m guessing he’d have a heart attack if he saw anything conclusive, but he enjoys the chase.
A few years ago, one of my relatives (we’ll call him Spielberg) drove frequently at night along rural back roads. He’d visit his fiance, then make the long trip back home to start work the next morning.
Once, he made an unusual observation.
“I got too tired to drive the other night, so I pulled over to sleep,” he told us. “When I woke up an hour later, I realized that I wasn’t in the same spot I’d parked in. It was like I’d cut a half-hour off my trip.”
His first concern was that he had pulled off some fancy sleep-driving. My brother Ed’s concern was proving that he’d been abducted from his car by aliens.
Unfortunately, Spielberg once made the mistake of telling Ed how much he hated the design of street lights that looked like the ray guns mounted on spacecraft in the 1953 War of the Worlds movie.
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