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eUFOs - DRAFT CLOSING ADDRESS
There are three erains of truth upon \'Thich the e;r8at
myth of ufoloe;y is built.
FIRST:
SECOND:
THIRD:
in~eJligent life could exist elsewhere in the
universe. With 100,000 million stars in our own
galaxy alone, it is probable that there are many
planets capable of supporting life.
the technical difficul·:ies of inter-stellar
. -travel are stunnJ.ng.e.ven at the speed of light
it would take 4 years to reach the nearest star,
and 100,000 years to cross our galaxy. But it
would be a brave man who said there could never,
ever,be manned inter-stellar travel.
~here really are strange phenomena in the skies,
arut many are reported by cool and intelligent
people.
2~ Btlt it is a far cry from this to the proposition that there
have been great numbers of sightings of UFOs - implying alien space
craft - sometimes claimed as running into hundreds of thousands.
Her ~ajesty's Government is not in the least impressed with the
idea that there is anything worth investigating in the information
offered by ufologists.
3.· On the one hand, there are perfectly simple explanations
for the phenomena; on the other, the explanations offered by
ufologists are most unconvincing. These explanations are un-
convincing when they relate to space craft from other stars: they
are even more unconvincing when they claim that UFOs come from
another space·- time d-l'rf\tn.<;,;(}Y\.. J from a hole in the earth, or the
depths of the sea, as Lord Clancarty has suggested.