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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science

Style points for extraterrestrials

Deputy director of US naval intelligence, Scott Bray, plays a video of a UAP during the first US public hearing on the phenomena since the 1960s.
Deputy director of US naval intelligence, Scott Bray, plays a video of a UAP during the first US public hearing on the phenomena since the 1960s. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Adam Gabbatt, in an article about the withholding of evidence of the existence of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAPs) by the US government, interestingly notes that the term “UAP” is preferred to “UFO” by “much of the extraterrestrial community” (US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles, 6 June). Clearly, the Guardian has evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials, and should release that evidence immediately.
Christopher Pavsek
Vancouver, Canada, Earth

• Melanie White describes how persistent offenders who tooted recorders at her school were made to “play the ruler” (Letters, 6 June). I can’t help wondering if this was a core part of the curriculum at Eton College.
Matt Atkinson
Netley, Hampshire

• Your photo caption in the print edition (6 June) says that Koko the chimpanzee is, at 50, the oldest mammal at Whipsnade zoo. There always seem to be many humans older than that when I visit.
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

• My iPhone must be particularly modest (Letters, 7 June). For many years now it has corrected “angry” to “seagull” in all my messages and notes. I can’t tell you how seagull I have become and how glad I am that it will soon stop. Strangely enough, I can write “fuck” as often as I like and it doesn’t react.
Helen Stringer
Ponteland, Northumberland

• Your correspondents and everyone else fed up with autocorrect have a simple solution to the problem: simply go into message settings and turn it off.
Pete Lavender
Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire

• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.

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