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UFOs AT 60
Sixty years ago this week the modern UFO epoch began. It was on 24 June 1947 that Kenneth Arnold saw a group of UFOs from his light aircraft, referring to their motion as you’d take a saucer and skip it across water.
The result was the term ‘flying saucer’, filling the headlines of the world. And the entire planet got down to the serious game of UFO spotting from that moment on. So how has it faired, the UFO?
Theory Upon Theory
It has kept us entertained, kept an army of Ufologists fed, and sent thinkers into the depths of the mind to bring up all kinds of theories. From visiting ETs to ‘it’s all in the mind,’ we have remained on the edge of our seat with laughter or wonder.
The media has kept the reports going, filling many a ‘silly season’ with everything from animal mutilation to crop circles, and it is now being crowned with the beginning of UFO theme parks, Roswell being the most obvious.
Yet below the media frenzy, serious research and mind-numbing reports have continued to come, showing that, if the media plays an essential part, it is nonetheless just a part. Indeed, there are more reports and ideas than hybrid alien children.
Will It Ever End?
From alien abduction to Men in Black, the UFO epoch has produced spin-off after spin-off. And the variety of new stories and themes may never dry up. Much of it is fraudulent, some is pure showmanship, but so what.
Indeed, to many the biggest showmen of all were the CIA. In order to hide secret aircraft research, they invented the UFO themselves as the cleverest piece of dis-information they’ve ever done.
Whether true or false, one thing is certain. It is unlikely the UFO epoch will end soon. And why should it? As a force for cultural change, it has been astounding; and as a source of inspiration for thinking, it has been prolific. Indeed, you could say that if the UFO didn’t exist, we’d have to invent it.
So here’s to the next 60 years.
© Anthony North, June 2007
MIDDLECLASS CROOKS
The middleclass in the UK are the most crooked area of society. According to a Keele University report two thirds admitted offences such as tax evasion and inflating insurance claims …
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FLOODED BRITAIN
Large parts of the UK are underwater again as rivers burst their banks. Even a reservoir is in fear of breaking, threatening to send water flowing down a valley, deluging villages and a power station …
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