Still however, stories persist to occasionally grab my attention of unexplained aerial activity. I am not one to look at photographs and video because so many are so painfully fake they're embarrassing to the whole argument of other life out there. It only really gets interesting when official documents get declassified. Today I came across this piece in The Telegraph. Ultimately, like so many newspaper articles it doesn't really go anywhere and you can get the whole article in the headline. It intrigued me though, not that it was seen, or that is was photographed, but the presence of two apparently RAF Harrier jets.
It is little things like this that make the story more interesting. The notes of the documents indicate the consideration that the sighting could have been the Aurora spy plane. This is perhaps the most common avenue for denying UFOs in the last two decades - to try and link it to some supposedly top-secret (though how that figures when everyone is talking about it I don't know) new plane.
I did a very quick internet search to see if I could anything of the photographs mentioned and nothing but appalling fakes and other related botched-up UFO images could be found. The trouble with a lot of these images is they often bare a striking resemblance to the prevailing Hollywood interpretation of an alien spacecraft. Saucers and disks in the 50's and 60's, gradually giving way to more cylindrical vehicles in the 70's and 80's and then into more diamond-shaped objects in recent years. The saucers of old now seem so cheesy and ridiculous they are not worthy of further comment. Of course today you can pretty much make a movie on your PC so adding a few alien looking objects in the background of your holiday snap are hardly difficult.
Why do I care? I don't know to be honest. Do I want life out there? Not really fussed. I cannot see any real benefit. I am sure if there is some civilised life form capable of travelling the great expanse of space to come and peer into our boring lives they would probably, assuming their atmosphere is similar to ours bring with them all manner of horrid diseases and bugs. And will we ever know? God only knows, I suppose literally.
That said, I do like the idea having recently reread HG Wells great novel, that Martians could secretly be alive and well under the surface of the Red Planet waiting for their moment to strike. Whether they would fire their invading cylinders towards earth from a giant cannon or use some otherworldly propulsion system we will just have to wait and see. On the subject of this book it still amazes me how this man was able to write science fiction in the era that he did. Great metal tripods, heat-rays, giant cylinders catapulted through space. It is a work of wonder, me thinks.
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