It is very lucrative. Tissue paper is an essential item so there is always a ready market for it.

@Op: I found that incredibly funny. You just made my day. Haven't laughed so hard in a while.

A failed engine/engines in a chopper does not suffice to cause a crash. It is designed to remain in flight through auto rotation which every helicopter pilot is taught. The power turbine is disengaged from the main rotor gear box by the free wheeling unit and the rotor blades continue turning due to the upward flow of air through the rotor enabling the helicopter to stay airborne and landed safely as soon as possible.
There is more to this story than meets the eye obviously.

Most of the responses I read are extremely funny albeit cynical and scornful. Even if I was able to capture the entire event on HD video the general reaction will be to call it a fake, so it makes no difference. Special cameras are required for night recording and there wasn't too much distinction between the ships and the night sky anyway. The light from the gas flare helped a bit though. I left out some details of what occurred because they will generate even more rancor. I have spoken to a couple of my neighbors and they heard the noise but neither bothered looking outside.
Something tells me these guys will come out in the open pretty soon, that's the only reason I posted this here, so at least it won't come as a complete surprise to some folks when it does happen. But am dead certain they are not aliens from another planet. And we don't stand a chance if they turn out to be hostile. Nuff said.

@obadiah777: This has got nothing whatsoever to do with Christ. The apparition wasn't a spiritual being. Don't get it twisted okay? Like I said I am sharing an extra-ordinary experience and it doesn't bother me if people respond with derision. It is what it is.

I tried catching it on camera but unfortunately it was too dark to be videoed and besides the video camera on my phone has an led light and I did not want to draw undue attention to myself. Couldn't possibly go out at that hour to talk to the security guards. Actually it makes no difference to me if am believed or not, just wanted to share my experience. Such events are best appreciated from personal experience.

Okay this probably sounds over the top and I was never one to give much credence to UFO sightings, how much more ever imagine I would ever lay eyes on one physically especially in Nigeria since most recorded sightings have been in the western world but last night I observed UFO activity for about 2 hours.

I was awakened around 0100 hours by an extremely loud noise and at first i thought it was the outdoor unit of my air conditioner so I powered it off but the noise wouldn't go away. It was real loud and rather disconcerting because it was a humming sound. My wife sprang up and was scared stiff, thinking judgement day had arrived because the sound was coming from above outside.

I decided to take a peep outside and lo and behold, what did I see? A flying saucer! It is indeed an apt description because the craft was shaped like a saucer, with a rotating outer ring. It was hovering about 200 feet away from my bedroom window and then after a while it started moving about but not very fast. I called my wife to the window just to be sure I wasn't hallucinating and asked her 'Do you see that?' and she went "Oh my God it's a UFO!'. Now I was convinced my eyes weren't deceiving me and we both stood transfixed watching the strange craft. There were no lights on the machine but it's silhouette was quite distinct from the night sky.

As we stood there watching the mopols guarding our area released some gunshots into the air as is their nightly custom except I don't know if they also saw the ship and wanted to scare them off. The craft then started moving towards the sound of the shots which happened to be a few feet from our gate and this really freaked my wife out because she thought they might interpret the gunshots as a threat and wipe out the entire neighborhood with some energy beam.

I must confess the thought also crossed my mind, however it resumed it's hover and then after a while went back to it's original position. A couple of minutes later it started rising vertically upwards and bigger surprise, there was a freaging mother ship!! A hatch opened up in the middle of the mother ship and the smaller craft went in.

The humming sound finally ceased, there was no sound from the mother ship, and the silence was actually menacing because it was a large craft. Then something really weird started happening. The mother ship started changing shapes.

I can't really describe the shapes but my wife made some drawings of what she saw. I remember one shape looked like a triangle and another was cylindrical with the tip like the nose of a high speed electric train.

Now this is the most amazing event out of all that transpired this morning, I saw a giant human in the sky, and I am pretty certain my jaws dropped. My wife whose eyesight is much keener than mine asked me if I could see what she was seeing, and I nodded in amazement. He was perfectly formed, with chiseled looks and a close cropped beard.

He was dressed in flowing robes and had a drape across his shoulders and he was huge! He appeared to be floating in the sky and was transparent, like he was reflecting the light around him. His gaze was transfixed at the gas flare coming from the NNPC refinery. By the way this happened in Warri and the refinery isn't far from where I live so the flames from the flare is extremely bright at night. I suppose they are watching and waiting for the opportune time to make their appearance known to the entire earth.

Anyway after a while he floated up into the mother ship and then another surprise, other ships started dropping out of the night sky and they moved in a formation behind the first ship, kind of like soldier ants and then they disappeared out of sight. This happened at about 0300 hours.

Without a doubt we are not alone on this planet but the being I saw isn't some one eyed creature with three fingers and green skin, he was definitely human but much more perfect than we can ever be, and huge in size.

Their technology is way beyond what we have now and I am still trying to figure out what kind of energy powered those ships. The engineer in me is inclined to think it's some form of electro-magnetic energy because a ship that large would require a huge engine which ought to generate a whole lot of noise but it was silent. I suppose the smaller craft is like a helicopter to them hence the loud humming noise, or maybe it's because it descended so low we were able to hear it. I am most definite people in the neighborhood must have seen or heard the smaller craft because it was real loud.

It's only a matter of time now before they make their play and come out in the open. It certainly looked like an intelligence gathering exercise to me. Well, just thought I should share my experience with others, maybe someone else saw them too. This is certainly the most awe inspiring event I ever laid my eyes on!

What I really love about the old bond movies is the dialogue and humor. The Daniel Craig bond movies lack that. He doesn't have the wit and charm that for me is the prerequisite quality of a good bond. Yes the producers want to make the character more believable and all but heck it's a movie, a form of escapism from real life. I am not happy they don't stick to the old bond tradition anymore. But that's just my opinion, apparently Craig is a hit with audiences. Guess am too old fashioned.

Only comic book fans will really appreciate this movie. Can't wait to see it, too bad am stuck offshore at the moment. The moment I get into town it's the first thing on my to-do list.

@Jenwitemi: I guess you misunderstood my post. I know Atlantis is way older than the Egyptian empire, I said Atlantean survivors taught the Egyptians how to build their pyramids, I don't believe they were all wiped out when their continent sank. They were probably the 'sons of God' mentioned in the bible. And I agree with Justcool's take on the matter. The distance between galaxies cannot be traversed by any spaceship, so Earth as far as am concerned has never received any alien visitation.

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that humans do not exist alone in this universe, but I do not believe any aliens visited Earth in the past. I think the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria had survivors who interacted with the more backward civilizations in those days, teaching the Egyptians scientific methods that enabled them build the pyramids, and naturally they were regarded as gods by the more primitive civilizations.