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The Whitechapel Pillar That Looks A Bit Like A Dalek

As previously noted, the Sci-Fi-London film festival begins today. We think the excitement might be getting to reader Vicki Garner’s head: Have you noticed that the design of the Dalek “skirt” is strikingly similar to the columns at the end of the platforms at Whitechapel …

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Aliens Invade Fleet Street

You may have noticed the occasional headline about aliens over the past few days. The offworld paparazzi are out in force, speculating on the possibilities of alien life. We can thank the Royal Society, who are hosting a conference called ‘The detection of extra-terrestrial life …

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2009: A Streatham Odyssey

It’s holiday season for aliens again as there are further UFO sightings in Streatham. Not only that but the video evidence from a previous sighting mysteriously disappeared from YouTube. Before you reach for your tinfoil hat while humming the theme tune from the X-Files, remember …

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Return Of The Jellyfish

Maybe it’s a lack of anything other than swine flu and a troubled Gordon Brown in the news, but silly season seems to have struck. After the Streatham UFO sighting last week, the aliens appear to be drifting east and taking on the form of …

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Streatham Is New Tourist Hotspot…For Aliens

“Let’s go home, Kang. They’re all idiots.” Unidentified ‘silver shapes’ were seen floating over Streatham yesterday. Hundreds of people supposedly reported the spectacle, with LBC’s James Whale receiving a deluge of calls and emails, backed up by a chorus of Tweets. Did anyone really see …

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World’s Most Explainable UFO Filmed Over Islington

“Let’s go home, Kang. They’re all idiots.” You’ve gotta love local newspapers. This quote from the Islington Gazette comes from a local resident who filmed and reported mysterious lights in his local skies: After the New Year’s countdown at around ten past midnight I went …

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Every Little Green Man Helps

Strange news from the East of the glittering constellation that is London: UFO sightings over a Tesco car park in Bromley-by-Bow. Now London has an impressive record of such sightings, as we reported in Saturday Strangeness earlier on this year, and indeed there are many …

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The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Interesting concept this. What would Martian anthropologists make of us Earth-dwellers if all they had to go on were examples of contemporary art? The Barbican Art Gallery, disguised as a museum on the red planet, plays out this indulgence in a new exhibition. Those crafty …