From: David Somen (David@holodeck.demon.co.uk)
From The Birmingham Metronews newspaper. Dated: Thursday, September 7th, 1995
City colleges are going UFO mad this term, with their X-Files style courses on close encounters.
Centres in Hodge Hill and Ladywood are both offering the fascinating night-school classes, with subjects including captured aliens, crashed spacecraft and things that go bump in the night:
"We try and keep things semi-scientific, and we look at all aspects - it's not all one-sided," said John Barklam, course tutor at The Mirfield Centre in Hodge Hill.
"We start with the nuts and bolts of the UFO scene, then look at channelling, the Roswell Incident, government conspiracies, and we get all sorts coming along - dyed in the wool fanatics, as well as people who think it's all rubbish - it's not all anorak types."
For more details of the courses, call 0121 454 5334 (Ladywood) or 0121 783 5898 (Hodge Hill).