UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)
UNIT's Position on The London Incident, prefixed as PRESS STATEMENT: UNIT’s Position on The London Incident on the story's page, was a short story released on the U.N.I.T. website as part of the UNIT Press Briefings series of in-universe, narrative press briefings.
UNIT's Position on The London Incident was the first story in the UNIT Press Briefings series to tie into a concurrent television story, being TV: Rose. It also was set concurrently to another short story on the website, Operation Mannequin.
Plot
In an embargoed press briefing following the London Incident, set to be released at 08:00am on 28 March 2005, filed by UNIT Staff Sergeant A. Frederick, asserts that the danger, whilst undeniably a threat to national security, is not in fact proof of alien life; while the briefing does not say outright what the threat was, refusing to indulge in the allegations that the threat "[were] disguised members of a terrorist coalition, or specially modified robots under remote-control by an unconventional aggressor", he explains that teams across London have confirmed that there was nothing unusual found at the sites of attack, and that the combatants' compositions consisted of entirely normal plastic.
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Notes
- Unlike other accounts that dated the Auton invasion to 5 March 2005, this story instead dates the invasion to the air date of TV: Rose, 26 March, twenty-one days later.
- Combatants is mispelled "combatanats".
Continuity
- The incident apparently involved terrorists. (AUDIO: One Rule)
- The incident took place in March. (TV: Aliens of London)
