look there's a bird

n November 1989 a "completely terrified" woman contacted RAF Wattisham in Suffolk to report her close encounter with a man claiming to be an alien.

She said she met the fair-haired man with a Scandinavian-type accent as she walked her dog on a sports field.

LONDON ROOF TERRACE SIGHTING Crescent-shaped moon object. Shaped like a banana. Maybe blue in colour. Arm and leg shapes hanging from lower end. Extract from MoD file: 16 May 1989 First UFO documents released Tories 'would publish UFO files'

He told her crop circles were caused by others like him who had travelled to Earth and that the purpose of his visit was friendly.

He then said he had spoken to her because he felt it was important to have contact with humans even though he was told not to.

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of x holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole.

Secret memo sent to Cabinet over scare

A ufo report was taken so seriously it was passed to Cabinet ministers, it emerged yesterday.

Secret files released by defence chiefs show the sighting baffled experts.

They even had photos of the 75ft wide diamond-shaped object "buzzing" an RAF Harrier near the village of Pitlochry, Perthshire, on August 4, 1990. Witnesses said it hovered for 10 minutes before zooming off at high speed.

The mystery - which remains unsolved - is detailed in a newly declassified MoD memo at the National Archives in Kew, West London.