Chugalug,
At least your colleague's UFO did something for its money, but our (supposed) one was bone idle, just sitting there and doing nothing to justify its existence. You wouldn't go to bat for a thing like that, now would you !
I wonder what sort of a work-over your two chaps were given at the MOD ? It calls to mind the scene in which poor Galileo, in front of Torquemada at the Inquisition (red-hot tongs at the ready in the background) decides that discretion is the better part of valour and recants, while murmering to himself "
Eppur si muove" (and yet it [the Earth]
does move).
UFO ? What UFO ? Nobody said anything about any UFOs !
As I had no career to imperil, should've sold my story to the Daily Mail. Might have made a bob or two !
Regards, Danny.