IRISH DAILY MIRROR – NO. 824
Posted on 2nd September 2023
Over the years there has been one experience I had which especially fires up my imagination. Initially I was reluctant to talk about it for fear that people would think I was crazy. However, I was not alone. There were others present when it happened. I saw a UFO near Guildford in Surrey in the 1970s. What was really strange about it was meeting another person who saw the same thing in Arizona about the same time. Then on Wednesday news breaks about a controversial Astrophysicist from Harvard called Professor Avi Loeb claiming he has found material that “originated from outside the solar system”. This is composed of fragments of a meteor-like fireball that plunged into the Pacific Ocean in 2014. In an expedition funded by Charles Hoskinson, a crypto-currency entrepreneur, and together with Amir Siraj, a Harvard undergraduate, he uncovers 700 small objects or spherules that he says are part of this meteor which is now called IMI. He says these fragments are composed of materials unknown to man. Loeb has his detractors but he sent the spherules on to Harvard, the University of California and the Bruker Corporation in Germany for further analysis. But back to that night when I saw that UFO in Surrey. I will never forget it. So one day we might find more than a spherule at the bottom of our garden.
So do you now fancy joining the Ukrainian Airforce? Apparently a cardboard drone, which is easier to build than an IKEA flatpack, has destroyed at least 4 Russian planes, costing only $3,500 each and supplied by Australia they have been in Ukrainian hands since March. They really are revolutionising air warfare, as made of waxed cardboard they are passing to their targets undetected by radar. On Tuesday they struck 6 different locations inside Russia, on Wednesday they hit a military facility at Pskov which is 435 miles from Ukraine. Russian media said at least 4 IL transport planes were destroyed. These aircraft cost at least £40 million each. Quite naturally the Ukrainians are pleased with their developments. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Zelensky said that the attacks showed the war was “increasingly moving to Russian territory” and striking at Moscow defences, he said, “it cannot be stopped”. Parallel to this I think it is significant that the Ukrainians have breached a section of Russia’s main defensive line on the Southern front. This has been achieved by troops from the 82nd air assault brigade. These are experienced frontline troops that have been trained in Britain. They are known to be equipped with Challenger 2 battle tanks. A turning point? Not yet, but it is not looking particularly good for the Russians and if the Ukrainians can break the land bridge to the Crimea they could possibly then have victory in their sights. Time as ever is of the essence because I fear that war fatigue is setting in and the winter is approaching. So may those drones rain on Russia and may the 82nd air assault brigade smash through the Russian defences.
