Tuesday 10 June 2008

There's Klingons on the starboard bow.

I have just remembered that its thirty years ago this year that the area had something of a UFO scare when unidentified flying objects were allegedly sioghted over Christ Cross leading to more than a few locals heading for the hill hoping to greet the arrival of ET, or at least provide the excuse for a good party. There were even reports of the arrival of mysterious men in suits, carrying briefcases, presumably the local equivelant of the men in black. As is so often the case however, the whole thing died the death after a few days when presumably, ET decided that there were better places to be in the universe then flying around the top of a big hill in Devon in august.

UFOs seem to have gone out of fashion these days and seem to have been replaced here, as elsewhere with reports of sightings of anomolous big cats lurking in the undergrowth. Having had an encounter withn something that appeared to be one of these beasties in the same area on a foggy afternoon in the mid 1980s I certainly think that there may be things lurking about in the hedgerows that might well be of more immediate interest then alleged sightings of extra terrestrial vehicles.

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