"'47 is when that incident outside'a Roswell happened, right? It was huge news. N'I don't think it's exceedingly prudent to be givin' away details about the future to a man like me, miss." He wasn't admonishing her so much as teasing. He knew they'd make it to the moon one day. He just hoped it wasn't while he was in the hotel and unable to watch it from his own home.
"But I really doubt it was Nazi technology that bumped up the sightings, so much as folks're more prone to be lookin' up at the sky than down at their work these days. There're folks who probably had seen somethin' like it, but didn't have the terminology at hand to explain it. N'folk are reticent to disclose anythin' that'd make 'em look like a kook."
He snickered then and leaned back, shaking his head, "I sure as hell wouldn'ta been able to tell you what I thought I saw back then. But now that folk have better understanding of what technology can do, ain't averse to the idea of flyin' machines bein' piloted by creatures, human or not, you'll be seein' more folk comin' out to say they saw 'em. But that's from my perspective. You're the one more qualified to speak on it than me."
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"But I really doubt it was Nazi technology that bumped up the sightings, so much as folks're more prone to be lookin' up at the sky than down at their work these days. There're folks who probably had seen somethin' like it, but didn't have the terminology at hand to explain it. N'folk are reticent to disclose anythin' that'd make 'em look like a kook."
He snickered then and leaned back, shaking his head, "I sure as hell wouldn'ta been able to tell you what I thought I saw back then. But now that folk have better understanding of what technology can do, ain't averse to the idea of flyin' machines bein' piloted by creatures, human or not, you'll be seein' more folk comin' out to say they saw 'em. But that's from my perspective. You're the one more qualified to speak on it than me."