More from the edges of space and time
In certain pale green corners of the Interwebs, the biggest news of the week was the sorta-kinda revelation (someone's dead grandpa overhead something etc. etc.) that Winston Churchill had classified an RAF UFO sighting during WWII on the grounds that it would create public panic.
Well, damned if he wasn't right. It took 65 or so years, but as soon as the news got out, we had something resembling public panic in that pale green sector. If Churchill banned it, it must be true, right? Now, one has to delve into the comment lists to get the full impact here. Naturally, those who consider this proof of anything (except Churchill's excellent judgment of the public's ability to panic) already believe in UFOs. However, numbers of them had to be persuaded that Churchill is a) no longer Prime Minister and b) has been dead 45 years...and it's unclear whether they believed that.
Remind me: who was it that said the best proof that there is intelligent life in the universe is that they don't try to communicate with Earth?
Well, damned if he wasn't right. It took 65 or so years, but as soon as the news got out, we had something resembling public panic in that pale green sector. If Churchill banned it, it must be true, right? Now, one has to delve into the comment lists to get the full impact here. Naturally, those who consider this proof of anything (except Churchill's excellent judgment of the public's ability to panic) already believe in UFOs. However, numbers of them had to be persuaded that Churchill is a) no longer Prime Minister and b) has been dead 45 years...and it's unclear whether they believed that.
Remind me: who was it that said the best proof that there is intelligent life in the universe is that they don't try to communicate with Earth?
posted by Uncle | 01:12
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Do you suppose the wingers and other nut bags might believe that aliens are their rapture — a taxi to da Lord? We could offer a whole bunch of them...
Perhaps they do today. This was before UFO meant aliens--it just meant unidentified. Public panic over a possible Nazi secret weapon would have been more likely than over ETs no one had even thought of.
Personally, I think it was a flying Loch Ness monster. That would account for the mysteriously disappearing photos.
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