UFOs: Is this all there is?

A supersecret programme is now being resurrected in the US to investigate UFOs and their mysteries

Hey, Mr Spaceman, Won’t you please take me along? I won’t do anything wrong. Hey, Mr Spaceman, Won’t you please take me along for a ride?

So sang the Byrds in 1966, after strange radio bursts from distant galaxies called quasars had excited people about the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.

I recalled those words recently when reading the account of a pair of Navy pilots who were outmaneuvered and outrun by a UFO  off the coast of San Diego back in 2004. Cmdr David Fravor said later that he had no idea what he had seen.

“But,” he added, “I want to fly