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2006-11-10 Britain

'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former MoD chief

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Posted by .com 2006-11-10 03:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If aliens are coming here across interstellar distances with hostile intent, then we are screwed whatever we do.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-10 05:26|| 2006-11-10 05:26|| Front Page Top

#2 This guy was was interesting at one point, now you just looks like a twat saying that. All credability gone out the window.

Posted by Shep UK 2006-11-10 05:35|| 2006-11-10 05:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Bet they dont land in the Middle East though ,they've surely got more brains than that .. Travel a gazzion miles to land in Tehran ! whoops u-turn !

Posted by MacNails 2006-11-10 05:41|| 2006-11-10 05:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Bomb iran and syria, blame it on the aliens.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-10 06:31|| 2006-11-10 06:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I for one welcome the rule of our new alien overlords.

Posted by Mike 2006-11-10 08:05|| 2006-11-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#6 'To Serve Man'

The other other white meat.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-11-10 08:06|| 2006-11-10 08:06|| Front Page Top

#7 "Frankly we are wide open - if something does not behave like a conventional aircraft now, it will be ignored...."

"And for once, I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-11-10 08:08|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-11-10 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 So he has never considered that these craft, if they exist, might just belong to an ally?

You know Oscam's Razor and all that...

Posted by 3dc 2006-11-10 08:57|| 2006-11-10 08:57|| Front Page Top

#9 ...Call Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, they know how to handle this.
(BTW, is there anybody else here who thinks that the shots in Independence Day of the US fighters and attack ships gathering for the big finish would make one hell of a screen saver?)

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-10 09:15|| 2006-11-10 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks Mike (#5). Remember, in case I get out of hand - "Klaato Barada Nikto"

I always did like Patrica Neal.

Posted by GORT 2006-11-10 10:22|| 2006-11-10 10:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Crop circles.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-10 14:45|| 2006-11-10 14:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Dulce underground complex.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-10 16:55|| 2006-11-10 16:55|| Front Page Top

#13 F-117's being retired. Now you know why (these UFO sightings aren't alien.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-10 18:15|| 2006-11-10 18:15|| Front Page Top

#14 When did the Weekly World News buy the Daily Mail?

Posted by ed 2006-11-10 18:18|| 2006-11-10 18:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Bomb iran and syria, blame it on the aliens.

anonymous5089, I like it! Though, some rather unorthodox weapon should be used to have plausible deniability.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-10 21:13|| 2006-11-10 21:13|| Front Page Top

#16 damn another abduction and "probing". I'll be glad when these stop every time I go out drinking

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-10 22:29|| 2006-11-10 22:29|| Front Page Top

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