When hippies aren't bleating about them, UFO's are immense fun. Though I can't imagine any reason why aliens would visit our planet, and regard their ability of getting to us an impossibility, I always get a little excited by UFO sightings my credible witnesses being reported on the news. Probably my sinister desire for staggering miracles to happen.
Anyway, a bit freaky - there's been yet more UFO sightings over the UK, the latest from a military base in Shropshire which was filmed by personel and involved a UFO 'several hundred metres in diameter' floating over people's heads. There was also a sighting in Merseyside which was filmed on mobile phone, but I can't watch the video on the BBC website at work. Bah. Guff? Probably, but VERY INTERESTING guff at the very least. Hope they release the military video. ("It's a weather balloon," - ed.)
Yahoo news story here:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/200806 ... dbed5.htmlBBC News story here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 472421.stmSo what's going on? The Western Mail in the wake of the Cardiff UFO had an amusing cover that photoshopped the Independence Day saucer over Cardiff, and it has become an amused topic of conversation with my library colleagues. Frankly, though technically I don't believe in UFO's I am incredibly baffled and fascinated by all this. Mass hysteria? Ingenius hoaxing for extra laughs by the military? (I would, I bet they get bored sometimes.) Whatever the reason, it helps me briefly forget about depressing things such as horrendous environmental destruction and the like. Here's hoping something interesting develops soon. Though Gordon Brown would probably use it as an excuse to introduce ID cards or something.
"They look like us! There are many copies!" said Primeminister Gordon Brown yesterday, running down the motorway between two lanes of traffic, waving his arms wildly. "And they have a van!" he added.
Bonus points if the alien race materialise over England, it would confirm our arrogant views that our nation is at the centre of the universe.
Save us Doctor, etc!