>A newly-published book by a retired NORAD officer predicts October 13, 2010 as the tentative date for a fleet of extraterrestrial vehicles to hover for hours over the earth's principal cities. Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the earth's atmosphere dangerously approaching a "critical mass."

Funny how the ETs would care about this... where were they thousands of years ago when there was about 5 times more of CO[sub]2[/sub] in the air? Or, when nukes were set off? Nukes don't warm up the Earth, eh?

>A newly-published 352-page book by a retired Air Force officer, Stanley A. Fulham, tentatively predicts October 13, 2010 as the date for a massive UFO display over the world's principal cities. According to the author, the aliens will neither land nor communicate on that date; they are aware from eons of experience with other planets in similar conditions their sudden intervention would cause fear and panic.

Not another one. What's this fascination with fear and panic? It's such a cliche, kept pressed in minds by all of the Hollywood and TV production, that it is nearly a self-fulfilling prophecy, after the masses are led to believe that's how they'll behave. "Similar conditions" - like, planets with the same production of scripts?

The accounts of actual human behavior during catastrophes (like earthquakes - not my own, but heard them firsthand), or what I saw during the bombing, speak of people mostly doing sensible things, helping each other, thinking fast etc.

If the ETs come, my gut feeling is that people will get out and watch.