In yesterdays Guardian magazine a piece by Jon Ronson , about his having attended a UFO/alien abduction seminar in Nevada with the now heavily bearded Robbie Williams , wittily titled 'I'm Loving Aliens instead' .
RW , now reclusively living in Los Angeles has recently developed a fascination with known apparent evidence of 'alien'/UFO sightings and close encounters , which he buys dvd's about , and he's spent many hours on sites such as abovetopsecret.com
So Jon Ronson joined Robbie , his girlfriend Ayda and friend Brandon on a private plane bound for Laughlin , Nevada .
A British lady called Ann Andrews , author of ' My Indigo Child : Raising a Multidimensional Star Child in a Changing World ' about her Son Jason apparently having been beamed  into alien crafts many times since he was a toddler was addressing the audience of around 500 .
Some fuzzy , blurry photo's allegedly taken by Ann of spacecraft  hovering above their home were shown .
Robbie met Ann , who told him  that Jason lost all his schoolfriends after her book was published : " They ridicule him . They call out things from across the road like 'Oi , Mental Boy!' " .
I read a couple of UFO books about 10 years ago , and attended a long lecture on that subject given by the Canadian investigator  Stanton Friedman .
Most of the occasional tv programmes about that  go on about the same 2 or 3 cases , that anyone with any interest in such things already knows about , though I also once saw an  interesting one about an alleged alien visitation and consequent 'cover up' in a small Brazillian town .
I find it hard to believe either that all the reported sightings/encounters are true or that none of them are , and of course some  sightings may have been of 'above top secret' terrestrial military craft .
Certainly there are some very intelligent and plausible ufo investigators who very sincerely believe that there has been contact between creatures 'not of our world' and governments , who will probably never tell us that .
And there's indisputable evidence of orchestrated 'plausible denial' cover-ups .
Of what ? -  Of unimaginedly highly technologically sophisticated intelligent creatures inhabiting unknown planets in other universes billions of light years away who somehow sometimes visit us , or that they are time-travellers from our future , or something altogether more spiritual ?
I'm not sure about Ann Andrew's multidimensional indigo star child , but I  believe the person who told me last year about having witnessed a craft breifly hovering above his garden , with humanoid creatures  inside looking at him when he was a child , and the testimonies of  other eminently sane people who have related their experiences of such things , without seeking money or dubious fame , and indeed anyone who speaks of having experienced such sightings and/or contact risks ridicule and being assumed  to be insanely delusional , and/or a 'sad' attention-seeker , which I do'nt doubt that some probably  are .
I've never had or claimed to have had any similar experiences , although I was labelled 'mental martin' when at 'junior school' , just for being noticeably different in some way .