The government has shut a unit which has investigated UFO sightings for more than 50 years, judging its resources better spent on more earthly threats, it said Friday.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) closed down a hotline and an email address to which sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) could be reported on December 1.
"The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life. However, in over 50 years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom," it said in a statement.
"The MoD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings. There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources," it added.
An MoD employee whose job was to investigate UFO reports has been moved to another post.
There he sat, in his little tinfoil helmet, a preoccupied look on his face and his eyes cast heavenward. Poor sod’s probably counting paperclips now.
You know, I bet this whole Afghanistan business is just a front to draw attention away from the shameful appeasement by the government of the Zebulons from Planet Tharg: islamo-Zebulons at that. Next thing, there'll be minarets on Mars.
They're no minarets, they're the rockets for the next invasion. Watch the skies, people!
Posted by: Richard J | December 05, 2009 at 04:30 PM
I want to relieve.
Posted by: skidmarx | December 07, 2009 at 06:24 PM