Current blogger, and Pennsylvanian A-list celebrity author and entrepeneur, J.D. Peluzzi recently started his blogging career with his observations about Planet of the Apes, a 1970s sci-fi series that had primates controlling a post-Armageddon Earth.  Now, I must say that I’m far too young to have watched this particular series.  The first series to have attracted my attention, for obvious reasons, was Charlie’s Angels.  Still, I digress!

Anyway, when I heard some alarming news today I immediately thought of J.D.’s post, and what Maryland Mark had written about a previous possibility for a blog.  So, these two gentlemen, and the news that Labour spending cuts at the Ministry of Defence has left us open to possible attacks from extra-terrestrials, spurred me into print.

Nick Pope, who had managed the Ministry of Defence UFO Project from 1991 to 1994, resigned his post from the MoD Directorate of Defence Security this week.  Now, I didn’t know we had our own version of The X-Files operating in this country, but I immediately thought of the possibility that there could be a British Dana Scully running around out there, and she hadn’t had the good-fortune of making my acquaintance. Yet!!!  Still, I digress again. 

As I said in my bio, I do suffer from having  a rather vivid imagination. Back to the MOD UFO Project.  Cuts have seen the closure of this valuable department, with the staff now being utilised in releasing formerly classified material in answer to Freedom of Information requests from the media and/or members of the public. So, how does this affect the future of Earth?  This department had previously been responsible for investigating UFO sightings and unexplained phenomena.  Nick Pope claims that there had been a number of “highly credible” alien sightings and landings in the UK.  The closure of this department now means that the Earth could be wide open to alien attack.  Remember that “the truth is out there somewhere”! 

Anyway, live long and prosper.