Extraterrestrial Abduction Day

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Try making some Alien Juice with 7 Up or any lemon lime drink spiked with green or blue food coloring. For adults, kick it up with a little Tequila or Vodka. Make the ice cubes with food coloring too.

Put out a bowl of Milky Way Fun size Candy bars

For Moon Rocks , mix popcorn and caramel corn together.

Open up Starburst Candy and put the individually wrapped ones into a blue or green bowl.

Make sugar cookies shaped like stars and moons, sprinkled with yellow sanding sugar

Make muffin tops and place them bottom side up on individual plates. Frost them in any color desired, and place red and yellow M&Ms around the base to look like the lights of a flying saucer.

Use gingerbread boy cookie cutters to make sugar cookies. Cover them with green frosting and use red candies to make eyes. Aliens!

Make blue Jell-O for the sky with floating planets using green and purple grapes. Be sure to put the grapes in when the Jell-O is half set, so they don't sink to the bottom.

Make mini-pizzas with English muffin halves...so they look like the pitted surface of the moon.

I'm sure you will come up with more ideas than this, but this should get your Extraterrestrial Day celebration started.

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For over three decades, Area 51 remained hidden from the public. If you've ever heard of Area 51, then you know there are differing opinions about what's real and what's not. This is an area in Nevada, where many think extraterrestrials have been kept for years. A new museum, Myth or Reality, located at 755 E. Flamingo Road in the Atomic Testing Museum, will focus on the reality of events that happened there in the late 1960s or the early 1970s. This is where the Stealth technology for fighter and reconnaissance air craft was tried and tested, long before there was public knowledge. The Stealth is aptly named because it is undetectable on radar. Some folks think we acquired this ability from aliens who are imprisoned in Area 51. Others think it has nothing to do with extraterrestrials, but our own diligent work to improve our defenses. The exhibit at the museum will explore Area 51 myths with entertaining representations of aliens and UFO's and the reality of Stealth and other supersonic, experimental aircraft, mistaken identities, legends and enigmas.

You can be one of the first to see this exciting new exhibit on UFO's, aliens, supersonic aircraft and never before released information on the most secret place in America. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Myth or Reality located at 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas NV 89119. The museum will open at 10:00 AM and close daily at 5:00 PM.

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We took a weekend jaunt to Rachel, Nevada on a bright sunny day when the wind was quite sharp and cold. We wandered around the grounds of the Little Al-E-Inn, and marveled at the Extraterrestrial Highway which is probably the loneliest, but most traveled (for aliens) highway in the United States. The sign in the parking lot had the words FREE PARKING underneath an image of a flying saucer. The sign on the front of the restaurant said Little A-Le-Inn, EARTHLINGS WELCOME. So we went in and bought a few souvenirs but didn't stick around for their signature dish, the Alien Burger. Nobody talks about what it's made from, but we hear it's quite tasty. When we came outside we noticed a tow truck with a flying saucer attached to the crane. I guess that one parked in the wrong place.

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Thanks for visiting. Hope you have a good time celebrating Extraterrestrial Day. If we don't see you again, we'll know why.