Down on Jollity Farm

A TREE FULL OF PARROTS

I have long remarked that ufology tells you more about ufologists than it does about UFOs – whatever they may be – and reports of the last several weeks tend to bear out the observation. One thing ufologists can be depended upon to do is repeat one another, not always altogether reliably: hence, they resemble parrots rather more than mynah birds, who are very precise and not recommended for inclusion in the households of errant husbands, fractious wives or stroppy teenagers, lest they alarm one’s dinner guests with intimate and outspoken details.

So one may expect,