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One of my favourite stories from the past week has been from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense: under pressure from Treasury to reign in expenditures, DoD has pulled the plug on their UFO hotline. This drastic measure will save a whopping 50,000 pounds a year.

It's a sad day for skywatchers, alienophiles, crop-pattern-investigators and attention-seeking nutjobs of all stripes. According to the Guardian, this is also a sad day for science. Nobody said recessions were going to be easy.