I believe that alien beings have visited our fair planet in the past. Before you say ‘better add another layer of tinfoil there…”, let me explain that my Dad use to chase UFO’s when he worked for a research branch of the Navy. Now, that wasn’t his ONLY job - they did highly classified scientific research that happened to bring them to remote, rather desolate areas of the country. It just so happens that on a couple of different occasions, unidentified flying objects (that’s UFO’s, folks) - strange cigar shaped vessels - would appear in the sky and they would pursue them - only to have the UFO’s speed off at a high rate of speed - so high that they couldn’t keep up in their Cessna’s or Piper Cub’s.

If my Dad, who I always deemed to be a sensible, intelligent and hard-working man with tremendous integrity could believe in the existence of extraterrestrial beings, well, so can I.

According to this article, President Bush recently granted a year-long exemption from environmental laws that risked disclosure of classified information regarding the super-secret Air Force base operations at Groom Lake, Nevada (a.k.a., Area 51).

According to the article, President Bush judged that “it is in the paramount interest of the United States” to prevent disclosure of information about Groom Lake. Hmmm, “paramount” - of chief concern or importance. What exactly are they hiding there?

Quite honestly, the mystery surrounding Area 51 has gone on long enough. While I think that I would be bored serving in any political office, I am strongly considering throwing my hat into the ring and announcing my run for the office of the President in 2004. I want to know what it is that they’re hiding in the Nevada desert….

Oh, I know, it’s nothing more than next-generation fighter technology.

But I still like the idea of life from other planets.