| Personalised Calendars are one of the greatest | | | | Swamp Ghosts and Space Crafts |
| underrated presents. No, really they are! When | | | | Did you know, for example, that ghostly lights |
| you open yours up, probably along with a | | | | often hover over marsh and bog land in the |
| selection box on Christmas morning, you might | | | | night? These are called 'will-o'-the-wisp' and they're |
| scratch your head, but by January the 3rd, you've | | | | believed to be made of swamp gasses. The |
| already added so many important things to your | | | | scientific explanation for the lights is that a |
| 12 identical personalised calendars that you can | | | | combination of chemicals such as methane gases |
| barely contain your excitement. | | | | produced from rotting organic matter and |
| Okay, that's silly. Maybe not 12, maybe 3, but still, | | | | hydrogen phosphate create the floating lights. |
| personalised calendars are a popular gift for a | | | | Italian chemists have actually replicated the |
| reason. They're useful and unlike their tacky, plain, | | | | process by adding chemicals to the gasses made |
| impersonal counterparts, personalised calendars | | | | from rotting meats and vegetation and proven |
| are just that, they are personal. They speak | | | | how easily these ghostly lights can occur. So that |
| directly to the person they're intended for and | | | | might account for floating things which light up, |
| they say something meaningful. If, however, your | | | | but what about abductions? |
| gift recipient is a UFO chasing, Sci-fi loving, | | | | Alien Abductions |
| obsessive conspiracy theorist, a personalised | | | | People who are abducted by Aliens are named |
| calendar probably won't say anything meaningful | | | | 'abductees' or 'experiencers' in UFO enthusiast |
| to them. Apart from their name and of course | | | | circles. In the rest of the world, they're known as |
| 'keep looking, the truth is out there.' | | | | crackpots! However, some crackpots have made |
| Picking up an Alien Encounters personalised | | | | very strong cases over the years that support |
| calendar for your mad Alien-fan friend, is a good | | | | the existence of extra-terrestrials. |
| idea for a few reasons. He or she cannot forget | | | | The first ever widely publicised Alien Abduction |
| important dates this way (Birthdays, | | | | was of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961 and they |
| Anniversaries, Funerals) and he or she can also | | | | claimed that they were able to communicate with |
| make a mark on the calendar whenever there's a | | | | the Aliens who abducted them. Betty famously |
| new UFO sighting to see any possible patterns | | | | said that she asked where the Alien examining |
| emerging! | | | | her was from and that it showed her a map of |
| UFOs and UAPs | | | | the Zeta Reticuli star system which would take |
| The truth is out there and according to some | | | | about 1 billion years to reach from planet earth. |
| theorists, as long ago as 467 BC, Chinese | | | | Both Betty and Barney Hill were holding |
| astronomers recorded some odd aerial | | | | respectable jobs as a Social and Postal Worker. |
| phenomena. This nowadays would likely be | | | | They were on local community boards such as |
| referred to as 'UFOs'. These ancient astronomers | | | | the NAACP and the U.S Civil Rights Commission. |
| would log the information on their personalised | | | | They claimed to be abducted while driving home |
| calendars (no, seriously!) and they wrote at length | | | | from a vacation and reported seeing lights in the |
| about the strange objects which they would see | | | | sky followed by an odd flying object. They |
| in the sky. One Chinese astronomer even | | | | stopped the car to let the dog get some fresh air |
| described an object looked like a giant pearl. He | | | | and to see if they could identify it. |
| went on to say that this opened up and shone a | | | | Soon they were driving again and frightened |
| bright line of light down on to the earth. | | | | because the car began to shake oddly, as if an |
| UFO only really stands for Unidentified Flying | | | | electrical current were running through it. Both |
| Object, but because in recent years it has been | | | | Barney and Betty then reported a period of |
| used as a synonym for spacecrafts, the military | | | | lapsed consciousness before they remember |
| tend to use UAP to describe the odd flying things | | | | driving again and getting home a full 7 hours later |
| they can't identify these days. UAP stands for | | | | than they should have. Following the experience, |
| Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which means | | | | Betty began to have bad dreams, which she |
| exactly the same as UFO, but it doesn't carry the | | | | regarded as flashbacks of an Alien examination, |
| same stigma. | | | | and soon the couple was famous. |
| Being that the main part of UFO is the word | | | | If you decide to give your loved ones the Alien |
| 'unidentified' most rationalists' say that Aliens are | | | | Encounters personalised calendars this year, they |
| not out there and that really most UFOs could be | | | | probably won't get famous as a result, but they |
| anything from wayward children's balloons to gas | | | | can certainly be a little more 'out-there'... |
| pockets. | | | | |