Apathy Sketchpad

This week, the following things came to my attention:

• The MoD released a huge box of UFO-related files to the National Archives. Inevitably, they are being referred to as “Britain’s X-Files”. The Guardian have read through a load of them and reported some of the better ones. This is my favourite:
  

  At quarter past midnight on Christmas Day 1985, three police officers in Woking were surprised by a white light descending on the Horsell area. The officers were worried their report would not be taken seriously, because Horsell Common features in HG Wells’s War of the Worlds as the place where the first Martians land. The account reads: “Genuine report. Two competent officers slightly embarrassed.”

  Presumably the third officer is either incompetent or really thick-skinned.

• The Vatican’s astronomer said that it is okay for Christians to believe in aliens. He even suggested that they might be free from original sin. All of this would seem to raise one important question, which is “why on Earth do the Vatican employ an astronomer?” (I presume his job is mostly just to look out for moving stars and follow them.)
• The trailer was released for the new X-Files film.

Is it some kind of theme-week, or is the news just a publicity stunt for Fox?