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Couple Finds Spielberg's 'ET' in Log

Mar 1, 2011 – 12:05 PM
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David Moye

David Moye Contributor

When E.T. phones home, he might want to tell his relatives he's stuck in a tree -- literally.

That's what Pete Burford, a retired British man in Eldersfield, Gloucestershire, discovered when he chopped down a poplar tree for firewood.

Pete and Sylvia Burford with a piece of wood cut from part of a tree that has a face like ET on it. A pensioner, Pete Burford, was chopping wood when the face of the alien in Steven Spielberg's hit 1980s blockbuster stared back at him (SWNS.com)
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Pete and Sylvia Burford noticed the face of E.T. in a piece of wood cut from a tree.
When the tree fell, Burford, 72, saw an image in the stump that looked amazingly like Steven Spielberg's famous character.

Burford, naturally, is stumped by how the image showed up in the "E-Tree."

"It's probably just one of those things, but it so looks like E.T. I couldn't believe it," he said.

But this isn't the first alienating encounter the couple has experienced.

Burford's wife, Sylvia, had an odd experience 40 years ago.

"I saw something that had a saucer shape with a great big bright light underneath," she said.

Read more at Small World News Service and see other out-of-this world photos at the Sacred Sightings gallery.
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