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A woman in America claims that she saw two UFOs over her back garden in Stockport and has left NASA baffled. She described one as being square or triangular in shape.

She wasn’t sure which shape because, according to her, it kept shape shifting. She said the second one looked like the Tic Tac mint and that one kept disappearing and reappearing in the sky.

Look, saying you spotted a UFO in the sky is often described as being a little nuts. There’ve been so many incidences over the years and they’ve all been debunked with some plausible explanation. Explanations such as a military exercise in the area or the atmosphere playing tricks with the eyes. Maybe this is the reason she does not wish to be named, because she does not want to sound crazy.

No one wants to say they saw a UFO. Even the abbreviation ‘UFO’ is considered a running joke although it’s a very apt description for such sightings. People would much rather say they saw something odd moving about in the sky. But ask this: Could they identify it? No. Was it in the air, flying?

Yes. And was it an object of some sort? Yes. So it was a UFO. There have been multiple global reports over the years of UFO sightings and accusations that various governments around the world are concealing alien encounters from their public. Of course none of this is verifiable so it all sounds a bit potty. Potty or not, I don't know, but an 86-year-old physics professor might almost certainly sound it.

After he passes away he has made plans to send his DNA to the moon, His hope is that aliens will discover it and create clones of him. I think the good professor is banking on aliens being intelligent and not the primitive one cell kind. If they’re primitive, they’re not going to be able to clone anything. You know, it always makes me wonder why people assume that an alien in outer space is going to be more intellectual than humans. Surely if a human managed to get to another world, then he must be intellectually superior to the beings he finds there who did not leave their planet at all because they could not. What is the professor thinking?

Maybe he just feels energised that when he passes away, he might live on in other ways? Speaking of feeling energised and alive, scientists claim that keeping good news a secret, for a while at least, is better for your well-being. To some extent, I can relate to that. Not everyone will feel as exhilarated about the good news as you when you eventually do reveal it.

In your mind you have this vision of utter joy that goes on and on and maybe something more. But you are likely to feel a huge letdown at the reaction you get. Yes they’re happy with the news and they get excited for a moment and then that passes. Sometimes their excitement passes for no specific reason and sometimes issues that are more pressing on them take over their thought process and lives.

You then feel deflated and a bit stupid or selfish for feeling excited and happy about something that may be important to you when other issues may be more pressing. You might also feel less excitement about your secret and maybe even wish you’d never revealed it because it was your secret and the only person who really needed to know was you.

This has happened to me several times over the years. I’ve had articles published in newspapers for the first time, this was around 30 odd years ago, and I’ve had my paintings chosen for members' galleries multiple times and each time I revealed it to those around me. Unfortunately the reactions were somewhat muted, not because they were not happy for me, because they absolutely were, but because there were other dramatic events that had transpired. I have to admit, though, that the knowledge I had of my works being published was exciting and made me feel good, that is until I revealed it.