Hello, it's Howard in London at the home of the unexplained. I just wanted briefly, and

this is not a full-size edition of the unexplained, just to add my contribution to the debate

that has already started about the UFO report that was released in Washington on Friday.

The report I think has disappointed a number of people in the UFO community simply because

we appear to come out of this interim report with as many questions as we went into it.

I don't know what a lot of people were expecting. I don't think any of us thought they would say,

yes, hands up aliens exist. But I think maybe some of us were expecting a little more.

The way that CNN reported it, I'll just read some words from their website. They said the US intelligence

community has released its long awaited report on what it knows about a series of mysterious flying

objects that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several

decades. In short, the answer according to Friday's report is very little. But the intelligence

community's release of the unclassified document marks one of the first times the US government has

publicly acknowledged that these strange aerial sightings by Navy pilots and others are worthy

of legitimate scrutiny. The report examined 144 reports of what the government terms unidentified

aerial phenomenon, only one of which investigators were able to explain by the end of the study.

Investigators found no evidence that the sightings represented either extraterrestrial life

or a major technological advancement by a foreign adversary like China or Russia. But acknowledge

that is a possible explanation to it. There's an awful lot more to read about this. There are reports

online. I was surprised and shocked that the mainstream media having teed us up to expect this

report. When it came out, a lot of the mainstream media either really had it low down the agenda

or here in the United Kingdom didn't cover it at all, which I think is interesting.

Now this is a work in progress. This is an interim report. But I thought just at this stage,

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