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North Carolina's soaring unemployment rate may get a little help later thisyear from little green men, pod people or whatever else may be up there.

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"The truth is out there" says Jimmy Fred Hudson,founder and CEO of the Upper Cleveland County Alien Space Search Center,"well, up there really and we aim to find it."

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Located atop Carpenter's Knob, the highest pointin rural Cleveland County, the ASS Centeris often filled by exited young interns hungering for new experiences.Human/Alien Resource Manager Awesome Hudson has been impressed with the qualityof the interns. "They do a good job. Most of them volunteered, but we had topromise free candy to a few and a couple think they're here to help look for mypuppy."

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Jimmy Fred Hudson is also the owner of Jimmy FredHudson's Organic Brown Eggs, the county's 163rd largest employer. He had hopedto use the business model of the egg plant, which employs only illegal Mexicanimmigrants. Hudsonsaid he doesn't speak Spanish and feels that aliens don't either which broughtabout the change in hiring policy.

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He says the center hopes to hire as many as fiveemployees by year's end. "We'll need a couple to work the telescope, one IT guyto send emails into space, a janitor and somebody to run the canteen. We'llalso need a temp in winter to sweep the snow off the satellite dish."

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There are future plans for more earthboundventures, including a museum dedicated to history of "Knobby," a Bigfoot typecreature often spotted in the area. Also in the works are black panthersafaris, led by Jimmy's son Random Hudson, who said, "North Carolina is second to Indianain black panther sightings and we want to be number one. Plus, it'll be fun forkids.