{"id":2010,"date":"2009-12-04T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2021-06-27T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T20:07:22","slug":"britain-lowers-defences-against-alien-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/04\/britain-lowers-defences-against-alien-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain lowers defences against alien invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true . . . the British are now wide-open to invaders from Rigel: they&#8217;ve re-assigned their <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8395473.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFO investigation forces<\/a> to other duties:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence has closed its UFO unit after more than 50 years of investigating reported UK sightings.<\/p>\n<p>A hotline and e-mail address for the public to report possible sightings was shut on 1 December because it had no &#8220;defence value&#8221;, the MoD said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer handling reports has moved to another post, saving \u00a344,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD said the unit had received thousands of reports, although none had yielded proof of aliens or any security threat to the UK. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well of course they&#8217;d say that, wouldn&#8217;t they? Expect the mothership to show up any day now . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true . . . the British are now wide-open to invaders from Rigel: they&#8217;ve re-assigned their UFO investigation forces to other duties: The Ministry of Defence has closed its UFO unit after more than 50 years of investigating reported UK sightings. A hotline and e-mail address for the public to report possible sightings was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,5,44],"tags":[127,1427],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-government","category-military","category-space-science","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-ufos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66792,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/66792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}