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There was something else about this period of time that was also out of place involving strange objects or visions. Whenever I was in the Richmond area, loften recalled seeing things from the corner of my eye. Something bright and colourful seemed to flash past me in the night sky but whenever I looked up it was gone. There would also be the total out-of-character tendency for me to ignore it. There was also something that occurred to me about the phenomena of alien technology and their supposed ability to read minds. If these were the spaceships occasionally reported, they or the pilots must have possessed an uncanny awareness of people witnessing them. I suspected they might have even been playing games with me because I would definitely see an object up there in the sky from my peripheral vision. As I looked towards that something, it would vanish. Could these craft whether living entities or intelligently piloted be accurate enough to read the moment when I looked at them? Could they really manoeuvre or vanish that fast? There were times when I considered that there were no craft up there at all, just mind games induced by the Programmers which probably explained why I often lost interest. This theory was soon shattered when I actually had witnesses. During this time, I lived in my bachelor flat, and my parents would often come over to visit. Years later they briefly commented about how they would occasionally see a bobbing light in the distance through my kitchen window. This always appeared when we were eating at the table with my back conveniently turned to the window. They claimed not to have mentioned it at the time due to their thinking that it was only a distant plane or something. On one occasion they claimed that it was much closer and thought it was a helicopter looking for something in the area with its full search beam on. When they went home that evening, they discussed why they couldn’t hear a propeller going. It was dead silent. When I speak of mind games, I imagine the Programmers took this a step further by proving they were up in the sky and not just inducing the image. This strikes me how horribly sophisticated their deviance can be. When my parents visited, they knew how to take advantage of the moment without me witnessing them. I think that even if I had a secret camera installed with telescopic lens observing the sky that night, they would have got wind of it. It is certainly a good thing if these beings do have an intellect aimed at responsible behaviour because technology and ESP like that could be unthinkable otherwise. It spooks me to think how this could be used in 39 among the pleasant changes of the season.