Close Encounters?

A few weeks ago a big WWII-era bomb was reportedly defused in London. The AP notes:

The bomb, which Metropolitan Police said was the largest found in London in three decades, was discovered Monday by construction workers preparing a site for the 2012 Olympic Games.

The bomb had started to tick at one point but engineers dealt with the problem, Saunders said.

This sounds eerily reminiscent of the film Quatermass and the Pit. (Spoiler alert: read no further if you have never seen this movie and think you might want to someday). Also known as Five Million Years to Earth to blokes in the States because the plot involves the discovery of a "bomb" in the London Tube that is actually a space ship that has been buried for, well, you can figure it out. Seems that all the spooky happenings in that part of the city over the years might be related to an alien scheme for planetary conquest.

Anyway, it's just a silly movie from the Sixties. I'm sure it has absolutely no connection whatsoever to this story from The Sun: Cops chase a UFO over Cardiff.

Maybe Ballista should go check on the readiness of the ol' Doomsday shelter.