UFOs in Portsmouth?
I'm quoted in the Portsmouth News and the Daily Mail this week commenting on a UFO (unidentified flying object) seen in Portsmouth . I sent my comments in an email to Portsmouth News reporter. What was printed in the story was this: ' Given that the pictures show a dark object against a daytime sky it's clearly not an astronomical object. Many " UFO sightings" are actually the planet Venus, but this one can't be that. The distances in space are so vast that it's just not possible for aliens to be visiting Earth, so any interpretation suggesting this is an alien spacecraft is clearly wrong. ' So what were these statements based on? Here's some more extended explanation I sent to the reporter about the vastness of space: The nearest star is more than 3 light years away - meaning it would take more than 3 years to make the trip even at the speed of light. Most stars which are visible in the night sky are within about 1000 light years of Earth. ...