OUT OF THIS WORLD
The silly season – the annual holiday period when the media scrambles to find stories not about shark sightings and sunburn – began early this summer with an amazing item from the Middle East. Haim Eshed – a former Israeli space security chief, highly decorated general and university professor – told a Tel Aviv newspaper we are not alone in the universe. More than 20 species of aliens from various star systems walk among us. Extraterrestrials from a “Galactic Federation” have made contact with world leaders. Co-operation agreements allowing them to discreetly explore our planet have been drawn up and signed.
These interstellar equivalents of Sir David Attenborough are monitoring us closely. Apparently, they’re worried sick about our stockpiling of nuclear weapons. These ecotourists and interplanetary anthropologists have intervened several times – zapping intercontinental ballistic missiles mid-flight or disabling them in their silos before they could be launched – to prevent nuclear war. If they really want to make themselves useful, cures for
