The aliens have landed!It's distressing, but they're here.
They piloted their flying saucer
through our atmosphere.
They landed like a meteor
engulfed in smoke and flame.
Then out they climbed immersed in slime
and burbled as they came.
Their hands are greasy tentacles.
Their heads are weird machines.
Their bodies look like cauliflower
and smell like dead sardines.
Their blood is liquid helium.
Their eyes are made of granite.
Their breath exudes the stench of foods
from some unearthly planet.
And if you want to see these
sickly, unattractive creatures,
you'll find them working in your school;
they all got jobs as teachers!
| From the book The Aliens Have Landed! Copyright © 2001 Kenn Nesbitt. All Rights Reserved |
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INVENT A NEW ALIEN!
Draw and describe using Mac McRae cartoon drawings. Click on the images to see more
Watch the video of Alien Bob.
Can you identify which planet the alien lives on and what special features it
has in order for Bob to survive in that particular environment.
READ AN ALIEN STORY!
I Scream,You Scream. It's Alien Ice Cream!
In this first
adventure, heroes Abigail, Andrew, and Baby Zoë try to keep their cool
on the hottest day of the year. Soon, though, they discover that not all
ice cream is created equal. Some is created by aliens who have plans to
take over the world.
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Mission 5: Aliens.
1. UFO stands for “Unidentified Flying Object”.
2. There have been many claims of UFO sightings since the 1940’s.
3. Some say a UFO sightings occur somewhere on the planet every three minutes.
4. In 1991, a Roper poll was conducted. The poll said that 4 million people believe they have been abducted by aliens.
5. In 1996 a Gallup poll was conducted which said that 71% of Americans believe that the government knows more about UFOs than there are telling the people.
6. The first documented UFO sighting is in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel described a "great cloud with fire enfolding itself, a wheel in the middle of a wheel that descended and fired lightning bolts into the earth.“
7. Winston Churchill reported a strange airship in Kent, England, Oct. 14, 1912. It was the first case of a UFO being "officially" reported.
8. The first photograph of a UFO was taken in 1883 by astronomer Jose Bonilla in Zacatecas, Mexico.
9. UFOs were often seen and photographed during NASA's space missions in the 1960s.
10. Probably the biggest UFO mystery has to do with The Roswell incident. was the recovery of debris from an object which crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947.
