Taken from Newsletter Issue 38 - June 2006

A report just released by the British Government reveals that Britain, at least, won’t be hanging up the welcome sign for visiting aliens anytime soon or paying serious attention to how they got here unless of course they decided to vote for New Labour. Joking aside whatever’s out there, the defence ministry says, it isn’t alien and this is because as the defence ministry sees it, talk of UFOs and the numerous sightings of unidentified aircraft that have been spotted in British skies over the years are, literally, “Just a load of hot air!”

The “proof” that there is nothing to the notion that UFOs might have come from outer space to buzz around Mother Earth and play peek-a-boo with its inhabitants appears in a highly classified study that was four years in the making and was completed in December 2000. The 400-page report, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the U.K. Air Defence Region, “found no evidence that ‘flying saucers’ or unidentified flying objects were anything other than natural phenomena”. It concluded that “meteors and unusual atmospheric conditions could explain UFO sightings such as bright lights in the sky”. They’re not strange aircraft from beyond, just the bewitching effects of gases and light furthermore “no evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces....[UFO sightings] are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere”. Example: so-called plasma-related fields, which “can adversely affect a vehicle or person”, the study says if experienced in “close proximity”. It notes: “Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain”.

The report about UFOs had been classified “Secret: U.K. Eyes Only” by defence officials who knew about it. It was so hush-hush that “only a small number of copies were produced, and the identity of the man who wrote it has been protected”. Its existence and some of its conclusions have been made known by David Clarke, an “academic”, as news reports have described him, associated with Sheffield Hallam University in northern England. Clarke had filed a British Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the defence ministry’s report. However this begs the following questions such as why did the Government bother to waste time and effort and tax payers money on this in the first place if they thought there was nothing out there and secondly does anyone really believe Prime minister Tony Blair is going to stand outside number 10 and admit that the Government report concluded they had made contact with aliens. Come to think of it would anyone believe Tony Blair anyway if he said he had found aliens considering recent events?