Christmas UFO pilots

Regarding my letter about edible UFOs [ FT399:72], I spotted these Christmas tree decorations at my local supermarket on 25 November 2020. I’ve never come across wild animals piloting UFOs before – especially not such high-status ones rather than domesticated pigs or chickens.

I wonder what gave the creators the idea to make them; do they have two sets of capsules consisting of “things” and “settings”, and just happened to randomly draw out “African animals” and “flying saucers” one week, rather than other combinations like “cats” and “banking”, or “bananas” and “windsurfing”? It brought to mind the notion that Noah’s Ark was actually a visiting/leaving ET spaceship, in line with von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods (1968). Is this yet further proof of humans being “softened up” for accepting new alien animal-based overlords? I didn’t buy them as they were glass and expensive. Then, on 6 December, I spotted Santa Claus in a UFO.

• Near my parental home there’s a field with something like 10 horse chestnut trees, planted in a perfect circle. Legends amongst the elders in Romford seem to suggest it’s either where a hanging post used to be or “to keep in the ghosts of said now long-removed pole/gibbet from escaping”. Has anyone else heard of this practice? Why Chestnuts and not, say, oaks?

James Watson

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