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[EllieT]

Latest addition to my Gimme a Break blog.


Interesting that this story ended in the Ananova.com Quirky news file, given the gravity or repercussions of this report. So y'see - the British Ministry of Defense who deals with UFO reports (among other things one presumes), is closing up shop after 60 years of investigations, 12,000 reports including 135 last year alone.

As is the case in many governments around the globe, the heart of the matter is money so the decision to close the department will result in a savings of £50,000 per year.

That's it? I mean, one wonders if this an entire departmental staff salary or one person's salary `a la British eqivalent of a Fox Muldaur. The official wording is that the department after deciding there was no benefit investigating sightings which were "an inappropriate use of defence resources".

A lot of Brits are not pleased with the decision including one Nick Pope, who ran the Ministry of Defence UFO project from 1991 to 1994, said it was "outrageous".

"We're leaving ourselves wide open to terrorist attacks," he told The Sun.

Well Nick, I don't know if I would go that far. Is Nick referring to an alien attack from another planet or dimension? Does he know something that we should know? Is there a space ship in a hangar somewhere hidden away from the public? Is there a British equivalent of Area 51? These are things enquiring minds wanna know!

After an application under the Freedom of Information Act, the Ministry of Defence admitted that responding to every UFO sightings "diverts MoD (Ministry of Defence) resources from tasks that are relevant to Defence". Presumably, it also costs to send out investigators to write up flying saucer reports that are most likely stored away for posterity or something.

It said that in more than 50 years "no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom".

Uh-huh...and what about all those corn field patterns? Huh?

After investigating, around five per cent of reports remain unexplained. There you go. Five percent is five percent!

[sharky]

Drunk Students have had an ongoing plan to make UFO believers out of every person on the planet for decades.

They make crop circles for the fun of it, in !@#$%! drunken orgies in barley fields across the land, cos if it was a space ship there would be some depression in the soft topsoil of a field rather than a few bent ears of corn, from a fifty plus ton space going vessel.

I myself have seen what can only have been a space ship, which hovered....moved across the sky about three miles in the blink of an eye...hovered for a few seconds more, then shot off skywards at such a speed nothing on this world could have reached....leaving behind a few seconds of blurred light before it vanished into space.

I didn't report it... didn't need to....my brother sat beside me on the garden wall and saw it too, but nobody out there would believe you if you told them, or if they did you'd get carted away as a loony.

One day an alien vessel will crash land here in a public place, let's see government hush it up then eh.

James.

[Sir Breakfast]

'ere! 'ere! 'ere, that ain't flippin' funny, Els.  You tryin' ter tell this geezer in Orstraylya, no more UFOs.  Nah! that's just like tellin' the bleedin' Aussies there's no more ashes.

I know there are these funny little geezers, gaddin' about - look, 'ere's a foter of on abaht ter land in Much Puddlesome, Suffolk. Blimey, 'ere's annuver a 'overin' arahnd, me oppo, Bert, reckons it's 'eadin' fer Berkshire.   Nah!, course there's UFOs - foters doant lie - know wot I mean?

PS: How's the cockney accent

[Hotrock]

PS: How's the cockney accent

That was cockney?   

[Sir Breakfast]

Alright! colonial cockney then -      (Summat the yanks carn't do - know what I mean?)