Does Russian Prime Minister Medvedev believe in UFOs and the end of the World?

When asked during a very recent interview (08 December) on Russian Television, the Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev advised his incredulous audience that “the president of the country is given a special 'top secret' folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet."

No doubt this caused more than a frisson of excitement to go rippling through the already over-excited ranks of those eagerly and morbidly preparing for the world to end on 21 December 2012. On that day all sort of terrible things are due to happen as we have been informed with more than a touch of sadistic glee by those somehow in the know. The Mayan calendar is ending (shocked gasps all round) and a rogue planet called, somewhat unimaginatively, “X”, and peopled by zombies…sorry,…alien reptiles (note to self…get facts right!) is just going to miss us (which I thought would be cause for relief but evidently not).

Now it seems a volcano in Yellowstone is also going to join the fun and erupt (which is most annoying as we were planning to go on holiday there next year). I hear reports of other terrible, yet unconfirmed happenings too, including Arsenal moving closer to winning the FA Cup and the Pope supporting gay marriage (ok, the last one is the most unlikely of the lot) converging on this day. No wonder there is global panic.

Then, to add to all this awful worry and just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Mr Medvedev confirms to the world that the aliens are already here – perhaps an advanced raiding and reconnaissance party? He didn’t clarify. I wonder what Mr Putin is going to do about it as Russian President – perhaps he has challenged them to a karate contest? Is there is a cover up?

Well, does Mr Medvedev knows more than he is letting on? More information is available, he dead panned, “from a well-known movie called 'Men In Black' ... I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic".

Don’t say you weren’t warned….
also see Starmap-of-doom-aliens-asteroids and The long shadow of the dark ages