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US holds fossilised UFO

REMEMBER when the joke was that on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog? Perhaps that should now be changed to: no one knows for sure if you’re a raving loon. We keep stumbling upon and puzzling over web pages like www.americanchronicle.com/articles/66764 – which reports that the US government secretly holds the fossilised remains of a flying saucer that crashed 150 million years ago, complete with the decomposed remains of its alien pilots.

That might make an interesting science fiction tale, but it’s written as a news story, and it’s not on a tongue-in-cheek website like …

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