PHOTOS AND TENTACLES

So, UFOs are real now. Well so it seems, anyway, according to a few of the tabloids.

To be honest, as soon as Photoshop was a thing, it was always inevitable that definitive 'proof' of alien spacecraft would be next to impossible. At least with grainy old film it was much less likely to be a doctored image - just an indistinguishable one; in the 80s all the UFO photos looked like clouds and fuzzy aeroplanes. Now they come in deepfakes.

Well anyway, Anthony Bragalia seems to know. He's an American author who submitted a Freedom of Information request to the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Apparently, in return they sent him several hundred pages of redacted information, outlining testing work that went on on UFO crash-sites, including of course, Roswell, New Mexico.

'Memory metal' was one thing that came out of that, Bragalia reports: metal that could be folded and bent, but still remembered its original shape. Some of the material, he goes on to say, could make things invisible (okay) and was even capable of slowing down the speed of light.

By the way, none of the articles I read pointed out that the speed of light changes depending on which medium it passes through; it's much slower in water, for example. But never mind.

I sometimes get asked about what I think of aliens, whether they exist, what the Bible says about extraterrestrial life and so on. I guess people think I'm interested in that kind of thing. 

I actually don't think it matters too much. Statistically they're out there, statistically they're unlikely to have made it, even to our galaxy, let alone our planet. And the Bible doesn't really mention it at all, so (call it glib if you like) I don't really feel like I need to dwell on it either. There are rabbit holes I'm absolutely certain I don't need to go down.

Nonetheless, it is interesting! Mr Bragalia might be pushing books with fanciful ideas and secret evidence, or the US government might finally have let slip the big ol' Area-51-sized secret. I'll leave it to you to decide which you think is more likely. Either way, as is the way of the world with pretty much everything these days, there'll still be both wide-eyed conspiracy-theorists and sceptics on either side of the trench, even if the tentacles emerge betwixt them in broad daylight!

I quite liked those grainy photos from the 80s. They added mystery, and sometimes that's much more exciting.