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power, which is why some people are so against it. So what if there was an alien race out there, who were twice as advanced as us, and they could see what we were messing about with, and they actually knew how dangerous it was? When you put it like that it doesn’t seem so crazy, does it? Imagine it. They’d definitely want to take a look at what was going on.
    I would love to know the full truth about what governmentsknow, and I set out to find out more while making the TV series and writing this book. But I do believe that if the authorities did turn round and say, ‘OK, it’s true, we are in contact with aliens’, then a lot of people would go bananas. Their heads would explode. Some people would just not be able to get their heads round it at all. It would challenge everything they thought was real.
    Look back at when Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds was first broadcast back in the thirties. It was a fake live news programme on the radio (this is before TV, remember) about an alien invasion that was supposedly happening. They said at the start that it was fictional, but loads of people switched on later and missed that bit, and totally thought it was for real. People panicked. I think a lot of people still would today.
    I do truly believe that there will be an announcement about contact with aliens one day, though. Whether that will be in my lifetime or not, I don’t know.
    My generation, and the generations before me, were generally brought up being told by the authorities that there is no life on other planets. Now things have changed slightly. We accept that there is water and probably some form of bacterial life on Mars, and most sensible people, including scientists, believe that there is life out there somewhere, if not in this galaxy then in another galaxy. Whether they believe that life has come to visit us on Earth, or will ever come to visit us here, is a different matter, but most of them believe something. I think it’s healthier for kids to grow up with that sort of thinking.
    Astronomers have found 200 planets in the last six months that are like Earth, apparently – mirror Earths. If there are so many mirror Earths out there, then I think it’s pretty obvious that one day we will discover that there is life on one of these planets. Whether we’re able to communicate with them, I don’t know. On the other hand, there is also the chance that the message will come the other way and they’ll get in touch with us.
    It’s only a matter of time, really.
    Mathematically, the universe must be teeming with life.
    The truth is out there, as they say. I wouldn’t be as daft as to say I’m determined to find it, but I really want to get closer to it.

CHAPTER 3
Ziggy Stardust and Other Spiders from Mars
    I’M FAR FROM the first musician to be fascinated by UFOs and life on other planets. From David Bowie to Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon to Robbie Williams, there’s a long illustrious history of musicians who have been fascinated by UFOs and space. Maybe it’s because we musicians are a bit otherworldly ourselves. Some musicians have even said that they believe they can tap into a cosmic super power that helps them write some of their best songs or produce their best performances on stage. I can see why they might say that, because the inspiration comes from somewhere, and the balls come from somewhere to get up on stage and perform, but I’m not sure I agree that it comes from any cosmic super power. Cynics may say that musicians and rock stars take a lot of drugs, but most of the incidents that I’ve heard about involvingmusicians and UFOs or encounters don’t involve drugs at all.
    When I read John Lennon’s account of seeing a UFO above New York City, I totally felt for him when he had to stress that drugs were not involved in the experience at all – just like I’ve had to.
    Over the years, plenty of musicians have also written songs, or even themed whole albums around their obsession with