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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

This is a true story, well its supposedly true.

Stepping outside, he found that a large silvery disc-shaped object about twelve feet high and thirty feet in diameter was hovering just off the ground in his yard. As he watched, a six-feet by thirty-inch hatch opened in the object. Through the opened hatch, which was about five feet off the ground, Simonton could see three men inside the object. He described them as about five feet tall, smooth-shaven, Italian-looking, and wearing turtleneck tops and knit helmets. One of them wore a black two-piece suit.

One of the men held up a silvery jug and made motions that Joe interpreted as a request for water. Joe went inside and filled the jug and brought it back to the strange men. As Joe handed the full jug back, he got a better view of the interior of the craft. He noted that the interior of the craft was black, like wrought iron, and he could see several instrument panels. A low whining noise, similar to the hum of a generator, came from the craft.

Joe saw that one of the occupants was "frying food on a flameless grill", and he motioned toward the food. When he did so, the man handed Joe four "pancakes" about three inches in diameter, with small holes in them.

The man closest to the door attached some sort of belt to a hook in his clothing and closed the hatch. When the hatch was closed, Joe could barely see its outline in the surface of the object.

The craft then rose about twenty feet in the air and flew off to the south, causing a blast of air that bent nearby pine trees. As it flew off, Joe noticed that the object, which was shaped like two inverted bowls, had exhaust pipes along its edge that were about six inches in diameter.

Joe ate one of the still-warm pancakes, which he later said "tasted like cardboard."