We are far stranger than aliens

You may have missed it amid all the other news of the last few days, but the aliens have apparently landed. In fact, they’ve been landing – or more commonly crashing, the clumsy green scatterbrains – for decades. And just like in the movies, secret military departments around the world have been scooping up the bits of their super advanced technology, figuring out what makes it go, and using it to improve our earthly weapons and gadgets. 

How do we know this? Because David Grusch, formerly of the US UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) task force, has blown the whistle on it to Congress and to the media. Look a little bit harder though (the details are buried in a very long read in tech news site The Debrief). It seems what he’s saying is that the UAP team were denied access to a military crash retrieval programme, which some other people told him was chock-full of extra-terrestrial treats. ‘Mr