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Description: Dr. Karla Turner discusses her latest findings relating to her research of covert abductions of human beings by alien beings and human military personnel.

By Jasmine Michaelson

ET Highway doesn’t guarantee ‘sightings,’ but it’s worth trip

I thought I’d heard quiet before but I hadn’t.

Standing on the dotted yellow line in the middle of the two-lane Extraterrestrial Highway, watching it stretch out straight in front of me until it ended at a point in the distance, all I could hear was my own breathing. There was no wind in the miles-wide, flat valley that stretched out on either side of the highway, its floor turning from reddish brown to grayish blue the farther it got from me. There were no leaves to rustle had there been any breeze — just some low brush and a few Joshua trees, their short, gnarled arms twisting heavenward.

The sky was

blue like deep water

and virtually cloudless and the road was serenely empty, despite it being mid-afternoon.

It’s so quiet, I thought, that if someone standing three miles down the road had cracked a knuckle, I’d have heard it.

But other than a handful of yellow diamond-shaped road signs warning us about “low-flying aircraft,” and eating an “alien burger” for lunch (which tasted inexplicably like beef) we didn’t catch any signs of visitors from other worlds — though, frankly, if we had, it wouldn’t have seemed out of place in the least.

DIANE MACLEAN

THIS YEAR'S shindig for lovers of all things weird, the annual general meeting of the Fortean Times took place in London recently. The Unconvention (Uncon) meets once a year so that the motley gang of people interested in unusual and anomalous phenomena can gather together and share theories and ideas.

Fortean Times, which has been recording all things weird and mysterious since 1973, was set up to continue the work of Charles Fort. At the turn of the century this American researcher and writer spent his time collating and debating curious things. The magazine still does, and its yearly Uncon allows like-minded people to come together and wallow in all things weird.

The gathered crowd - or Forteans as they are known - are a mixed bag of people. They are predominantly male and there are a lot of men in hats – enough to keep an army of milliners busy for weeks. There are trilbies, cowboy hats, baseball hats, berets and even one top hat. There are also a lot of walking sticks.