Ants Are Aliens From Space!

File: UFO239

A NOTED INSECT EXPERT HAS ISSUED A CHILLING DOOMSDAY WARNING: ANTS ARE SPACE ALIENS THAT ARE TAKING OVER THE EARTH - JUST AS THEY DID MARS AND OTHER NOW LIFELESS PLANETS! PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF ANTS AS SOMETHING AS MUCH A PART OF EARTH AS THE AIR WE BREATHE, DECLARED DR. CONRAD STUTZ, A CALIFORNIA ENTOMOLOGIST WHO'S MADE A LIFELONG STUDY OF THE TINY INSECTS. BUT MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE POSITIVE PROOF THAT THE ANT IS NOT NATIVE TO PLANET EARTH. IT'S AN ALIEN LIFEFORM THAT CAME HERE FROM OUTER SPACE. THE ANTS NOW FOUND IN EVERY POPULATED, HABITABLE CORNER OF EARTH COULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED HERE BY SPACE WINDS OR ON STARSHIPS THAT LANDED HERE. BUT HOW THEY ARRIVED ISN'T IMPORTANT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THEY ARE SLOWLY BUT SURELY TAKING OVER. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE, MULTIPLYING AT AN EXPLOSIVE RATE. SOON THEY WILL DO TO EARTH WHAT WE BELIEVE THEY DID TO OTHER PLANETS THEY INHABITED - THEY KILLED THEM! DR. STUTZ EXPLAINED THAT IN MANY PARTS OF THE AMAZON, AFRICA, BORNEO AND INDIA ENORMOUS ARMIES OF CARPENTER ANTS ARE MOVING THROUGH VAST AREAS, DEVOURING EVERY TREE IN THEIR PATH WHILE OTHER SPECIES ARE STRIPPING THE GROUND BARE OF EVERY SINGLE BLADE OF GRASS AND MILLIONS OF ACRES OF CROPS. WITHOUT GRASS, GRAZING ANIMALS STARVE AND THE BARE LAND IS DEVASTATED BY EROSION. WHAT CROPS AREN'T EATEN BY THE ANTS WILL BE BLOWN AWAY AS DRY WINDS SWEEP ACROSS THE BARREN, LIFELESS LAND. IF THEY AREN'T STOPPED IN TIME, ANTS WILL BLANKET THE EARTH, AND MANKIND WILL NOT SURVIVE ON THIS PLANET IF THAT HAPPENS. WHAT IS ESPECIALLY TERRIFYING IS THAT, AT PRESENT, WE HAVE NO WAY OF KILLING THEM EN MASSE. AND IF WE CAN'T KILL THEM THEY WILL, SOONER OR LATER, COVER EARTH LIKE A LIVING, SWARMING BLANKET OF DEATH. EVENTUALLY, THE ANTS WILL TRANSFORM THIS BEAUTIFUL PARADISE IN TO A LIFELESS SPHERE OF DIRT AND WATER. AND THEY WILL PERISH AS WELL - UNLESS THEY MANAGE TO REACH ANOTHER INHABITABLE PLANET WHERE THEY CAN START THE CYCLE ALL OVER AGAIN. DR. STUTZ, ON OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST EXPERTS ON ANTS, IS THE MAN WHO FIRST WARNED THAT KILLER BEES WERE HEADING FOR THE U.S. THEY HAVE SINCE BEEN REPORTED IN TEXAS AND MAY NOW BE MOVING INTO ARIZONA, NEVADA AND NEW MEXICO. COMPARED TO THE ANTS, THE BEES ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A TRIFLE, HE SAID. WHAT WE ARE FACED WITH NOW IS THE EVENTUAL ANNIHILATION OF THE HUMAN RACE AND EVERY OTHER LIVING THING ON EARTH, EXCEPT THE CONQUERING ANTS! DR. STUTZ, HOWEVER, HELD OUT ONE TINY CRUMB OF HOPE WHEN HE REVEALED THAT EARTH'S LEADING SCIENTISTS HAVE UNITED IN A CONCERTED EFFORT TO WIPE OUT THE ANTS OR FIND A WAY TO CONTROL THEIR RATE OF REPRODUCTION. MANKIND IS LIVING ON BORROWED TIME, AND THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING, HE WARNED.