As I type this post, it is 18 March 2008. Tomorrow is 19 March 2008.

In my time-zone, Arthur C. Clarke is still alive by time-zone-calendar standards. The classic movie 2001: a space odyssey is on right now.

Tomorrow Mr. Clarke will pass away worldwide. For this instant in time he still lives in the future. His vision of space changed mankind. The reality that I discovered this cold fact about his passing at age 90 through the computer and telecommunications so quickly that he still lives is a testimony to his PROSPICIENCE.

Click on screen-shot image and look in lower right corner. You will see that the date of capture is 18 March 2008. Read the text about Mr. Arthur C. Clarke's death on 19 March 2008 and you shall know about my reasons for posting this. Note in text in upper right of screenshot "Urbana Illinois". This is where HAL the super-computer was programmed on 12 January 1992. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer to, I'm half crazy, all for the likes of you, it won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, but you'll look sweet, upon a seat, of a bicycle built for two...

NASA just released a mosaic of Planet Mercury that is cigar shaped. There is a cigar-shaped galaxy also. All of this reminds of the old UFO days, when people said they spotted cigar-shaped UFO's in the sky.

'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

Last updated at 16:44pm on 22nd June 2007

One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands.

An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.

Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light".

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Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, described what he thought to be a UFO as 'a cigar-shaped brilliant white light', similar to the image supplied by Dennis Plunket of the British Flying Saucer bureau

As the plane got closer the captain viewed it through binoculars and said: "It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area.

"It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a [Boeing] 737.

"But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."

Continuing his approach to Guernsey, Bowyer then spied a "second identical object further to the west".

He said: "It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was further away. It was closer to Guernsey. I can't explain it. This was clearly visual for about nine minutes.

"I'm certainly not saying that it was something of another world. All I'm saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying."

The sightings were confirmed by passengers Kate and John Russell. John, 74, said: "I saw an orange light. It was like an elongated oval."

The sightings were also confirmed by an unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands airline.

The Civil Aviation Authority safety notice states that a Tri-Lander aircraft flying close to Alderney spotted the object.

"Certain parts of the report have not been published. I cannot say why," said a senior CAA source.

Earlier this year, however, the MOD declared its intentions to open its UFO files to the public.