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This is the only poem we have ever published as an Unknowncountry.com Insight. The reason we are publishing it is that it captures the essential ambiguity and complexity of the close encounter experience in just a few well-chosen words.

Aliens and Angels by Marsha Carter.

Angels and aliens appearing in the mist of an ancient forest or the edge of sleep, an ancestral memory tatoo-ed in our DNA.

Dark blue patterns scar the skin of shamans. The thoughts of God expressed and “His gaze was terrible.”

The tiniest quantum particle changes when it’s observed. Our eyes, magnified, see that shining energy with no awareness that we too are terrifying.
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I’ve lived through some exciting times in the past few years that I’ve shared with you: What it’s like to go to the premiere of a major motion picture and the premiere of a small one, and what it’s like to sit backstage while your husband is on a late night network talk show. Now I’m going to tell you what it’s like to be in the audience while your husband films a pilot for a possible TV series.

A “pilot” is a potential episode of a television series, in this case what is called a “non-fiction” TV show. The network involved had not committed to actually running the series, but they HAD committed the money to filming a pilot, which they would then use to make their final decision. Since the topic of this episode was UFOs, they called on Whitley.
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This is the time of year when people make predictions for the New Year. Scientists make predictions too, and meteorologists say that 2007 will be the hottest year ever recorded, all over the world.

There’s a 60% chance that 2007 will break the record set in1998, when the weather worldwide was 1.20 degrees warmer than normal. Britain’s Meteorological Office says, “This new information represents another warning that climate change is happening around the world.”
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If you have too much corn, you try to find a way to use it for fuel. If you have lots of cows, you do the same thing.

Cow manure, waste silage, cheese whey are waste products to some, but viable energy sources to researchers in New York State who are helping area dairy farmers meet their own energy needs by turning these waste products into “biogas” (and this is NOT the kind of gas expelled by cows).
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