Abiding by the Outer Space Act
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Suppose a UFO of extraterrestrial origins lands on your back lawn. An alien space explorer emerges. What should you, as a UK home-owner, do? An unlikely event perhaps, but the possibilities have already been addressed by the lawyers.
The Outer Space Act 1986 was drawn up to license and monitor individuals and agencies wishing to fire rockets into space, but it also, although perhaps unintentionally, sets the legal framework for dealing with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In its preamble, the activity in outer space.
