Alien Island Author:T. L. Sherred Earth had not been attacked – no, indeed – and the Visitors were not about to allow the Establishment to intervene between them and the man-in-the-street. — The Establishment had, in fact, been spending considerable time, energy and (taxpayers') money on an effort to shield the tender, hyper-sensitive feelings of the public from t... more »he panic it assumed would result were it ever to become generally known that the Earth had Visitors – and had been having them for several years.
It was, of course, the Establishment which was scared witless. So they were bypassed.
And there wasn't a thing the united governments of the Earth could do about it. Except for their unitedly witless Secret Services...« less