By Tim Binnall
A Scottish paranormal researcher has called out the country's national museum after they declined to accept his donation of a pair of pants from a legendary alien abduction. According to a local media report, the trousers at the center of the curious controversy were worn by Bob Taylor when he was allegedly scooped up by a flying saucer back in 1979. In the process of being taken by the interstellar miscreants, the man's pants were said to have been snagged by some strange spikes that pulled him into the ship. The damaged trousers were initially collected by authorities and eventually found their way to paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson, who hoped to hand them over to a place where they could be properly showcased.
"This is not any old pair of trousers," he declared, "they are part of Scotland's biggest-ever UFO story." As such, Robinson reached out to the country's national museum with what he believed was a tantalizing offer to donate the piece of possible extraterrestrial evidence. Alas, it would appear that his reverence for the pants was not shared by museum officials who initially passed on the offer with the rather weird explanation that they "already had similar material." The eyebrow-raising rejection, which suggested another pair of abductee's trousers were floating around their archive, was later walked back as a miscommunication with the museum simply saying that "we don't have space or capacity" that people constantly try to donate to them.
As one might imagine, a "disappointed" Robinson disagrees with their stance on the pants, musing "it might sound bizarre to some, but this is an iconic piece of Scottish history which rightly deserves its place in a museum.” The paranormal researcher was particularly aggrieved because, he claimed, "an American businessman" had previously offered him "thousands of pounds" for the trousers, "but I have refused." It is uncertain if the recent rejection of the pants will cause him to reconsider selling them to the mysterious prospective buyer. That said, if Robinson is determined to get the trousers into a museum, there's one in Roswell that would probably take them off his hands.