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Yup they exist, I think. What prompted me to add this entry here, is that I just watched a program, Myterious Journeys - Episode: Alien Hotspots, and they showed Chicago as the newest city to witness UFOs.

Like I said, I did massage for a while, I’m not doing it anymore and I will not register to be in the grandfather clause. I’m more into my art and writing now. I am now living in the Northside (still in Chicago) a little north of Wrigleyville (Cubs).

In 1999, I moved to downtown Chicago to be near the hotels. The thing about massage, you will get a call in the wee hours, even at 3 a.m. The time is unpredictable. It’s not like a 9-5 job. What I would do is take a taxi, even if the hotel was just less than 5 blocks away.

The Hyatt hotel at McCormick Place is located at what I consider the southern “edge” of downtown. McCormick Place is a convention center. It is one of the country’s biggest, if not the biggest, convention center. I like the place, I consider it a magical place, because if the Book Expo was held in Chicago, it would be there. There is also an annual Restaurant Show, Boat Show and Auto Show held there, which a lot of people, including myself, look forward to attending. If a convention was held there, the hotel got busy or full, and I in turn got calls for massage.

The hotel is about 10 minutes from the Loop (the business district) and Magnificent Mile (The Michigan Ave. section with a lot of expensive shops), and is kind of solitary in its location. Most of the hotels are in or around the Loop and the Mag Mile, and there is nothing much to see for tourists, travelers and convention-goers south of McCormick Place. Chinatown is just a few blocks west of McCormick Place, that’s a place to go to, but like I said, not much to see, south of Chinatown either, if you are a regular out-of-towner and not after the interesting little locales of Chicago.

As you take the taxi to and fro downtown, between State Street to Lake Shore Drive, the clearing on one side would be the park and the lake (the east side), and the other side would be the rest of the city (west of the avenues).

I usually see stationary white light above the lake. You can ask taxi drivers. They would usually dismiss the lights as just stars. However, they look bigger than stars. Sometimes the lights move, but they never blink, like the planes. There would also usually be no other lights in the sky, no stars other than the one or two or three lights that don’t seem to be stars. I wonder if satellites would have continuous lights turned on? I should read on that, but can satellites appear to be lower than you would expect airplanes to be in?

Sometimes, I went to the Playboy building in the late afternoon, a block away from my apartment building. (It’s called that because the Playboy publisher’s office is located there, but it also includes other offices, residences and some retail shops, including a grocery, for the residents). I usually went there for Hollywood Video, to either rent a movie or buy a dvd or vhs. That side street, Erie St., as I walked home and faced west (my back would be the lake), I sometimes looked up to the sky and I sometimes saw one or two stationary lights up in the sky, clearly visible above Erie St., which goes east-west, obviously above the city. Once again, usually, they would be just stationary or moving very, very slowly, and unblinking, so they cannot be planes.

Because Chicago has busy airports, people I’ve talked to usually explained them away as planes, that were coming directly to the city, that it would seem like the lights were not moving. However, if you time them, they would be there for more than 30 minutes. By then, even if you saw them, because they stayed for long periods of time, you would not bother waiting for them to disappear or move away.

Other weird things have happened to me in Chicago, strange dreams, shadow people and whosts, but those are more personal. I mentioned all these in one of my books, Memoirs of an Artist as a Masseur, but I took the book out of Lulu.com, hoping to get a regular publisher to publish it. I got other books in Lulu.com for the meantime, including a book of drawings,
Valentino F. Zubiri: Nude Drawings and Paintings from 1995 to 1996, and the one about psychic surgery, Healing Lessons from a Psychic Surgeon, which is just as weird anyway, but about my encounter with psychic healing in the Philippines.

I have always wondered if there are any alien abductees in Chicago. hmmm.

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