Beware the USOs!

I found myself watching a show on the History Channel last night about mysterious USOs that are causing fear and panic in certain countries.

And yes, just like you, my mind went immediately to images of Bob Hope and Brooke Shields rampaging through the countryside.

Actually, the show was about Unidentified Submerged Objects...see the subtle shading of difference there? Submerged. Which means that the little green men are swimming around in the oceans instead of whizzing around the skies. Which doesn't help me sleep at night, even though I live hundreds of miles inland.

UFOs have always scared me. Always. Growing up, I had nightmares about only two things: UFOs (and the accompanying alien invasion) and zombies. Even now, I don't like to go out at night and be exposed under the skies. I always have the sense of something being up there, hovering, watching.

There's a line in Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" that I always think of when I'm outdoors at night: "When twilight came I had vaguely wished some clouds would gather, for an odd timidity about the deep skyey voids above had crept into my soul."

Yeah, you've got to watch those deep skyey voids...because they're certainly watching you.