The ministry of Defense has never been open about the dangers of an invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials. My sources inside the Ministry tell me that on at least one occasion Earth was threatened with such a fate. The hostile aliens, the Squolag of M’foog IV, were only stopped by their genetic predisposition to clumsiness and being lethally accident prone. Apparently, the ‘Sub-Commander’ in charge of their battle fleet accidentally left the hand break off on their flagship; which sent it crashing back down onto their own planet wiping out about a third of the population. After this unhappy event, (I say unhappy, unhappy for them anyway), The Squolag gave up all thoughts of Galactic conquest and took basket weaving and other such harmless pursuits. Interestingly, The Squolag are distant relative of the Renaark of the Planet Bufwaa. The Renaark, however, are no threat to Earth at all. In fact, although highly intelligent, The Renaark have such a short term memory that whenever they make any kind of Scientific or cultural breakthrough they, almost immediately, forget its purpose or how to operate it or, indeed, what it is. So far, they have not advanced far beyond the equivalent of Earth’s Stone Age. One does wonder where the Ministry of Defense gets its information from to substantiate such claims. Probably from the same source as their information on weapons of mass destruction.
May 18