But since they can’t be arsed to check out once a month incursions of unidentified flying objects in our airspace why would they be bothered by the possibility an Al Qaeda unit [or're they the ones who're our friends now?] were crawling on their bellies to London covered over by a lion skin?

The thing about these stories is they all boil down to the idea Joe Public’s an idiot who can’t tell the difference between a cat licking cream from a bowl and a Martian stepping out a flying saucer.

They also exaggerate public reaction and to this day I’m still trying to track down online all these thousands of American hillbillies and yokels who supposedly believed The Body Found wasn’t a mockumentary and claims it was are just coverups.

It might all be a coincidence of course but I’m less and less convinced of that possibility when each day which passes seems to bring another story selling the idea people who promote the paranormal’re hazard to the public’s mental health in the same way cigarettes harm the lungs.