Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

Who needs UFOs when you can play Sudoku?

The demise of a great conspiracy theory

issue 13 May 2006

Your chances of being abducted by a grey-skinned, blank-eyed alien creature have receded very greatly over the last decade or so. If you haven’t already been abducted, bad luck — it might never happen. Your chance has probably gone.

Last week a report into UFO activity over Britain was made public by the Ministry of Defence (because it was forced to do so under the Freedom of Information Act).

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