Look to the skies

Bondpapers refers to the Harbour Mille... thingie... as the latest installment of the quinquennial skywatch panic, referring back to the 2005 incident in which Danny Williams single-handedly shot down an American rocket before it could enter Our Sacred Airspace.

Or something like that; the particulars, like the facts of why we were at war with Canada, or how we intended to improve the Access to Information Act, are lost in mythological time (and will be the subject of a spectacularly-cinematographed tourism ad in the 23rd century.)

Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. On the "quinquennial" thing, that is.

In 2008 there was the Boxing Day Bear episode, which reverberated into 2009.

And in 2007, it was overblown reports of Boris doing flybys.