Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic

Newly released secret files show that Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public panic. From the article: "Mr Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect of the following: 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.'"

He saves the human race time and time again . . .

[rev_sanchez]

and still the doctor never gets any credit.

Consider that...

[minogully]

Winston probably called himself "the Church".

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[romu]

Doctor who ?

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[Anonymous Coward]

According to most reports aliens still have one head, two hands, two legs, two eyes etc. So, basically it might be a slightly different implementation of the same Interface. Hopefully e better one.

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[Jarred Capellman]

That or the Planet Express ship getting sent back in time again...

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[rickb928]

And then there are some who, when confronted with incontrovertible evidence of the existence of a God, accept it. Yes, there are a few, and yes, they were faced with even physical evidence. YMMV.

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[Alyred]

Of course, it could also be that he was so ahead of his time he referred to himself as "The Church, yo".

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[easterberry]

He was just covering for The Doctor when the Tardis went into space to destroy the Dalek ship.

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[Carrot007]

I find the lack of cat related things in your comment disturbing!

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[bareman]

[engage Groucho Marx voice]

And we could all use a bit of relief from religion. o.O

[disengage]

The secret alien propaganda program...

[bdwoolman]

Ahhh... But we must continue to wonder if aliens are secretly behind the sci fi scenes, molding us and educating us. But for what? Perhaps preparing us for the day when they will cook us and eat us. Perhaps our intelligence is just something their bio engineers built in as a way to insure that most of the biomass of Sol 3 is concentrated into six billion bite sized nuggets when they swing by three billion years later. "Hey Vorb! These are great. Just pull off the head and suck out the juice. Bitchin', dude."

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[easterberry]

I'm confronted with people who try and force their beliefs down my throat all the time. Vegetarians, vegans, gays, straights, liberals, libertarians, conservatives, and many others are far more guilty of it than Christians.

I was going to ask what gay people were trying to force down your throat. But I can't think of a way to word it that doesn't sound dirty.

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[eln]

You could hear that? I told her to be quiet...

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[dgatwood]

If you're going to quote Adams, at least quote the right bit:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

---Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

UFO =! Alien Ship

[muindaur]

It's:

1) Atmospheric reflection(hmm five lights moving really fast can't be a five fighter formation?)
2) Many bombers encountered ball lightning in WWII but because of lack of science education classified them as UFOs
3) Astronauts aren't seeing aliens.
4) X Planes: Flying wings were classified as aliens but have been in development since WWII. Area 51 was just a base for testing classified military aircraft.
5) Alien abductions are a) mass hysteria and b) usually involve some sort of dream or psychotic episode.
6) Roswell was established as a military x-plane crash at a later date. (The aliens being test pilots in jump suits some drunken hick though were aliens.)

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[x2A]

Oh I can answer that easily. They'd say "those goddamn muslims, they're all the same".