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Alien fixation

This weekend belongs to the aliens. Manchester plays host to the International Conference on Alien Abduction, while Channel 4 gives lesbianism a rest and screens pictures claimed to be of dead space folk being dissected in Roswell, New Mexico, circa 1947.

The Roswell film is, of course, a hoax, following in the long tradition of the Turin Shroud, the Loch Ness monster and the Hitler Diaries. Each time new, astonishing evidence is discovered. Lots of journalists who ought to know better get very excited. Months, or even years later, the proof turns out to have been manufactured by a lab technician who needed the money to set up his own laundry business.

So far, alien abductions have failed to ...

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