From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1970.

The famous six-word story popularly attributed to Hemingway, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," pales in comparison to this six-word headline: "Man on lonely beach sees UFO."  While the Hemingwayesque story is tragic, it's excruciatingly mundane.  Yes, life is fragile—welcome to reality.  We can see why Hemingway got credited with this six-word story — he wrote about how The Sun Also Rises and how it rains in spring, other excruciatingly ordinary topics.  Mortality, sunrises, and rainfalls aren't interesting.  Granting that the headline recalls The Old Man and the Sea, the flash of extraterrestrial mystery saves it from humdrum existence.

We spotted a sort of follow-up headline, from six years later.  Another man on a lonely beach (at 2:30 a.m.) saw a UFO float in with the tide.

Headlines courtesy of UFO Newsclipping Service, 1975, 1981.

With the advent of political correctness, physicists no longer stomp on tiny space aliens, not even with scientific rigor.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1970.  The headline reads, "U.S. physicist steps on little green men."

The UFO landing in Whitfield, Scotland (1967), from Awareness magazine, 1972.

Not every flying donut one sees is necessarily a UFO -- one's eyes may simply be glazed.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.

Eerie, indeed, to see a horse taken up.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1970.

From Northern UFO News, 1988.

It's a question some of us are still asking: "Entity or embryo?"  From Magonia, 1982.

We can now reveal the nature of this UFO spotted in Bar-sur-Aube, France in 1968.  It is a "teru teru bōzu" ghost doll that somehow wandered all the way from Japan.  Drawing from Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1971, and photo courtesy of Keng Susumpow.

From Krokodil, 1965.

The UFO of Bethlehem.  From Notes from the Hangar, 1991.

"And don't forget our alien friends who are always around."  From UFO Review, 1992.

You've heard musicians hem and haw over how their music gets inspired.  Sometimes there's good reason for their caginess.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1980.

Ah, the classic circling of the obvious anomaly, a practice as old as anomalies themselves.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1980.

Not that anyone needed further evidence that the Michelan Man has always been a space alien.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1973.

From Mysteria, 1981.

It's a question that some of us are still asking: "Will you be alivein 1982?"

From UFO Review, 1976.

From Northern UFO News, 1986.

Further proof that the Michelin Man is an extraterrestrial.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1978.

"Typical alien."  From UFO Review, 1987.