Famous Astronaut Confirms Alien UFO Visits Are Real
by Amelia G : July 23rd, 2008
Okay, this is just plain awesome and entirely made my day. I am mostly familiar with Kerrang! for being the well-written and well-photographed hard rock magazine which used to cover a lot of the bands who played Taime Downe’s late lamented Pretty Ugly nightclub in Los Angeles. Apparently, on the other side of the pond, Kerrang! also does radio and television and such. One of their on-air personalities is Nick Margerrison who does a show called The Night Before.
I’m not sure what astronauts have to do with hard rock, but I guess MTV’s early call sign video interlude involved the moon landing, so maybe it all just fits together in some secret cosmic way. At any rate, Nick Margerrison was interviewing astronaut Edgar Mitchell, on Kerrang! Radio, when the famous astronaut casually pointed out that life definitely exists on other planets and aliens have visited earth. The obviously usually-smooth Nick Margerrison is kind of like ha, ha, wait are you serious? He sort of sputters and says wow a lot, while waiting for his interview subject to admit he was kidding.
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell: “We’re not alone in the universe at all . . . The UFO phenomenon is real, although it’s been covered up by our governments for some time.”
On-air personality Nick Margerrison: “I’ve had crazy UFO nuts before, but I’ve never had Dr. Ed Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, a respected scientist in his own right, announce to me that we’ve been visited by aliens from other planets and they definitely are out there and there’s no debating it . . . I’m just wondering if I’ve stumbled on astronaut humor and in a couple minutes you are going to …
I am sad to report that special effects pioneer Stan Winston passed away yesterday, after a long struggle with multiple myeloma cancer. He was only sixty-two-years-old. Stan Winston is like nine of the top ten names in special fx that people into them tend to know. The other name is Tom Savini, known best for his active participation in fandom and willingness to share his knowledge from doing makeup effects on projects including Friday the 13th, Day of the Dead, and Killing Zoe. Stan Winston really was larger than life in a way where all comparisons have to fall short. He won Oscars for Best Effects Visual Effects on Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Aliens. His work spanned the gamut from makeup to general special fx to the creature creation he was best known for. Not having been a reader of the comic book and being a fan of Keanu Reeves, I might be the only person in America who thought the look of the makeup and animatronics (and everything else) in Constantine was awesome, but it really was impressive. If the characters in a movie had innovative and fantastical design in the last couple decades, odds were good it was a Stan Winston joint. From Edward Scissorhands to John Carpenter’s The Thing, from Predator to Tank Girl, from Dracula’s Dog to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Stan Winston was the man. When the hilarious Galaxy Quest wanted to do it right, they tapped Stan Winston. Now of course, Stan Winston did not attach every eyelash and fang personally, but he was one of the founders of a quadruple threat 