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SUBJECT: DALLAS LANDING PAD WELCOMES UFOs FILE: UFO2487
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He's built it, so will they come? Dallas landing pad welcomes UFOs
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12/21/92
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The Dallas Morning News
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If, by chance, any extraterrestrials have the desire to land a
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spaceship in Dallas, there is a concrete landing pad waiting for
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them.
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"U-F-O LANDING BASE 1," scream the red 2-foot-tall letters
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painted on the concrete.
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Really.
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Wesley Nunley, 73, recently had the $10,000 slab built to invite
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all space aliens to steer straight to Dallas, Texas, USA, Earth.
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"I tell you, this could be a big thing," he said, walking on the
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concrete octagon in the middle of his sand and gravel pit. "This
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welcomes the UFO to land, which has never been done before."
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It also welcomes someone else - whether or not the journey is by
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ship. "WELCOME LORD JESUS," say other red letters that Nunley
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spray-painted with stencils onto the concrete. (The stencils cost
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him $204.)
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Nunley said he has dreamed for decades of allowing aliens to
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alight on his 120-acre pit, off Interstate 45. He has never spotted
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a UFO himself, but he believes they travel the night sky.
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Oh, Nunley knows what people will call him.
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Crazy. Nuts. Wacko.
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Even Sid Hammett, Nunley's best friend, shakes his head and calls
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Nunley "a little off." Hammett, 72, said Nunley "is a smart man, but
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I can't say what I thought about how smart this was."
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He gestured toward the 100-foot-wide concrete slab.
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Vinnie Hammett, 80, does not share her husband's skepticism.
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"Anything can happen," she said. "We didn't ever think anybody
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could go to the moon, and we can do it."
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Vinnie Hammett hopes a spacecraft does touch down on Nunley's
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land. She and her husband own 25 acres nearby, and she believes a
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publicized UFO landing could help them sell it for a good price.
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If any creatures do maneuver their spaceship to Nunley's
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creation, they may form a horrible first impression of Earth.
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A muddy road leads to the pad, which sits in the middle of a
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quarry filled with murky water. Across the lake, red, blue and green
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truck trailers for 18-wheelers are stacked on top of each other.
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A white shack with sagging plywood walls sits on another edge of
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the water. Other vistas open to a rusted dredging machine, a barge,
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the light-blue shell of a school bus, waist-high weeds, and a
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10-foot-tall embankment of rocks, pipes and other debris.
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Welcome to Earth.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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