Sunset Sightings - It's the aliens, It's the government, It's a military cover-up! Oh my!

With the recent sighting of an alleged missile fired off near the coast of Los Angeles at sunset, yesterday's similar sighting in New York City - at sunset, might I add - caused quite a stir. CBS 2 Chopper caught a red hot streak moving behind the Empire State Building.

The Pentagon finally came to the decision that the Los Angeles incident was nothing more than the condensation trail of a commercial airliner. In New York, they're offering similar explanations. Ironically enough, a CBS 2 News anchor stated on air she doesn't buy either story.

CBS 2 News Video - Alleged Aircraft Contrail Whizzing in New York City SkyLine

The video speaks for itself, I think. I don't buy it either. Before anyone chastizes me for thinking the aliens are here, that's not what I'm saying. Former Secretary of Defense Ellsworth thinks the Los Angeles incident involved a missile. So do I. What is an aircraft doing in New York flying at a speed like that, hmm!? It looks like something out of the movie Ghost Busters! What's the Pentagon have to say about that - that's what I want to know.

Mystery Missile Soars Over Pacific Waters, Caught on Video

Yay! More stuff for me to panic about...

Missile Launched Off of Pacific Coast. Government says mums the word. Since President Obama is currently touring Asia, this could be a show of military strength aimed at - Asia? We did the same thing over the Atlantic before, only we were sending a message to the Soviets then. Makes sense. Navy, Air Force, Pentagon offer no explanation. Since no one's talking, it remains an unidentified missile.

Fire Balls Over Canada - panic!

So I'm one of those people that watches a horror movie or a sci-fi "thriller" such as Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds and then tries to figure out ways in which I'd handle the same situation - in my present situation. With four kids five and under, basically. Who would I pick up first, where would we hide and where would we go? Would I be able to handle the emotinal trauma of it all? This is nuts! Maybe. But I have some serious game plans if aliens ever do shoot themselves down in lightning bolts and awaken their long-buried machines that lazer-fy people into dust or whatever that was supposed to be. Game plans only. Nothing packed... yet.

Just kidding! Sort of. This is why I stopped watching horror movies and disaster movies in the first place because my thoughts just go bonkers until it invades my dreams (ie: Paranormal Activity) and I start fearing things like the sheets will be ripped off the bed at some ungodly hour. Ridiculous, I know.

How would I escape all that with four kids? I wouldn't. End of story. Earlier today I explained to my father that if gravity suddenly gave way, we'd all just float to our ceilings with all our stuff, then everything else would pop off the ground and we'd just go up, up, up without any choice in the matter. That would totally suck!

I'm only bringing this up because for Halloween, we watched The Crazies (the remake) and of course, I began constructing my game plan. This dumb habit is partly for fun and partly that I'm just odd (and maybe also that I have four kids and have been programmed to constantly worry for them). I'm sure we've all thought "What would I do in this situation?" and I'm the kind of person that wants to know exactly what I'd do ahead of time, no matter how ridiculous, just in case. In the case of The Crazies, I came up with nothing obviously.

So when I read stories like "Great balls of fire over Canada: NASA investigates" some part of me inwardly panics. What the!? Canada is exactly where I'd go if anything crazy ever happened! Right into the center of Canada, where there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. Crime is basically nonexistent and yet everyone owns a shot gun. Canada never did anything to anyone. It's the perfect escape from almost anything and there are so many places to hide. Apparently not from fire balls however, as even NASA can't figure this out yet.

New game plan. :-)