Roswell UFO Incident Anniversary: The beginnings of a myth. Given the later conclusion that the materials recovered in Roswell were of a secret Project Mogul balloon for monitoring Soviet nuclear tests, the citizenry of the day showed notable astuteness in their collective analysis of the then-burgeoning UFO phenomenon. -The Voice before the Void

“RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”

“Roswellians Have Differing Opinions On Flying Saucers”

“Air Force General Says Army Not Doing Experiments”

Roswell Daily Record

U.S. Independence Day: A brutal piece of literature about life in the USA. -The Voice before the Void

“Clothe the Naked”

Dorothy Parker

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First Day on the Somme: The deaths of millions in war after war after war. -The Voice before the Void

“From the Somme”

Leslie Coulson

Summer Vacation:

All that death and life are. A bit of bathos, and a bit of something else.

-The Voice before the Void

“Hurry”

Robert Charles Matthews

I sat by the window And looked through the tree When suddenly A bug came into view Clambering laboriously A bird flew in and out again And snatched the bug from the limb

I sat by the window another day And watched the birds at play A hawk swooped down And in its talons Was the little bird

I hope that the bird had been happy And that the bug had had the fulfillment Of at least one love affair

One half of a late-night conversation. Explicit. Mind the god of the gaps. -The Voice before the Void

About Ancient Aliens, the History Channel television series

The Voice before the Void

Actually, the prior existence of galaxy-spanning civilizations is not far-fetched. In fact, given the extreme age of the galaxy and how quickly life evolved to its present state on our planet, we would expect that such civilizations have arisen in the galaxy many times. However, we do not have clear evidence on our planet that an alien civilization ever visited it in the past, and when we train our telescopes and receivers into the galaxy, we do not perceive the remnants of any previous civilizations. That we expect to perceive such remnants and do not, is the Fermi Paradox. “Where is everybody?” Are we alone, in being a communicative civilization in the history of the galaxy? At present, it does appear so. Could it be that prior alien civilizations have existed, but, for some reason, we’ve yet to perceive conclusive evidence of such? Yes, it could be. Though it is presently unknown to us, a resolution of the Fermi Paradox exists for certain, and whatever it is, that resolution must be shocking.