Government Employees: The Final Frontier
Britain has determined that it can no longer justify paying someone the equivalent of $73,000 a year to monitor UFO reports. It justified the position for the past 50 years, though.
I’m not surprised that the British public kept the UFO office busy for decades. Such is the human imagination, that if you ask people to report sightings of green-tailed Loch Ness monsters, someone is bound to call you and ask whether the orange-tailed kind is dangerous.
Besides, Missouri has a mountain lion response team, but no mountain lions.
From the article: “The dedicated UFO officer who dealt with the reports has been re-assigned to another post, saving 44,000 pounds ($73,000) a year.”
So, they didn’t actually fire anyone, they just reassigned him. Hopefully they can have him do something more productive, like go beat up the Irish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whacking_Day
Comment by David Stokes — December 8, 2009 @ 5:13 p.m.
“The dedicated UFO officer who dealt with the reports has been re-assigned to another post”
Maybe he found something he wasn’t supposed to. OMG “they” are here!
Comment by vroman — December 9, 2009 @ 1:43 p.m.
A little research shows that there have been 10 confirmed sightings, just no evidence of a permanent breeding population, yet.
Comment by Donald — December 9, 2009 @ 2:00 p.m.