A Tory council leader went on a bizarre rant about alien life, UFOs and drone sightings in the US.
“There must be other life out there,” Barry Lewis, the Conservative leader of Derbyshire county council said in a Twitter thread that ran to more than 1,200 words.
Mr Lewis also mused governments might have “captured crashed craft and are reverse engineering them with their defence contractor partners”.
Mr Lewis accepts that some will be sceptical, noting that “there’s still some reticence by some press outlets and reporters and governments (or individuals within for fear of looking a bit ‘out there’)”.
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He went on: “short of a tracked interstellar craft landing on the White House lawn and little green men popping out of it for a chat, there will be those who won’t ever entertain the idea of [UFOs]”.
Louise Jones, the Labour MP for North East Derbyshire, said: “My constituents deserve better than this rant about UFOs.
“They expect their council leader to tackle the things that really matter to this area. Aliens are not one of them.”
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