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Posted on 24/09/05

They're coming. Are we ready?

On a warm September evening in 1975, while sipping pre-dinner drinks outside with his family, Mike Bird found his truth right here -- not "out there," as they would say later on the X-Files. From his perch on Close Avenue in south Parkdale, Mr. Bird turned his 24-year-old eyes to "a bright, fuzzy ball, just sitting there, shimmering" over Lake Ontario.

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