The government has just revealed how the Conservative administration made the extraordinary move of blocking plans to maintain a computer database of UFO reports in order to avert a potential PR disaster.
It has released secret files describing how, during the 1980s, the Ministry of Defence wanted to create a computer database of UFO reports to help ministers answer questions about sightings in Parliament.
But the documents reveal that the government pulled the plug on the proposals because of fears about the public reaction should the details of the plans ever leak through to media.
They documented the concerns of senior officials who warned that the public would mock the project as a crackpot scheme devised by cranky ministers who took the idea of UFOs far too seriously.
And the critics were right to put a spanner in the works by highlighting the potential PR pitfalls of the proposals.
The story would have made perfect fodder for the media at a time when they were tiring of nearly ten years of Thatcher leadership and were desperate to breathe new life into the political news arena.
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