A L I E N S.
Tonight’s subject: ALIENS.
To get you in the mood, here’s a rip of an old Sightings video, which is absolutely perfect right down to the boldly plain “Feature Presentation” intro. Remember that one?
(Paramount used to slap it on EVERYTHING. It got to the point where I’d hum that little theme all day long.)
Sightings was awesome. While never managing the production value or eerie ambiance of Unsolved Mysteries (which Sightings was clearly built to resemble), it had the advantage of dealing with spooky stuff 100% of the time. No “Lost Loves” segments, here!
Often enough, the show favored entertainment over legitimacy, allowing people who were so obviously lying to tell their stories, and sometimes even crafting reenactments of their tales. As a kid, I ate it up.
I didn’t grow up only half-believing these stories. I was all-in. I may have approached ghost and monster stuff with some skepticism, but I absolutely believed in UFOs, and can hardly remember even one alien story that I didn’t take at face value.
Even if I’ve since been forced to confront the very real possibility that most of them were bullshit, I still love extraterrestrial exposés. At any given time, we have six or seven of them on our DVR. They’re great for those nights when we want something spooky, but never screaming.
So, tonight’s questions:
1) Do you (or did you) believe that people have seen, been in contact with, or even been abducted by aliens?
2) Any childhood memories of the space alien craze? How did it affect you? (Me personally, I’ll never forget the time I let my imagination get carried away and actually called 911 to report a sighting of what I now realize was just a helicopter.)
3) Did any particular alien story/movie/whatever really “shake your foundation” way back when? (I still can’t deal with the flashback scene from Fire in the Sky, for instance.)
Answer one or all, or just run with the topic of aliens and talk about whatever!
