Victor Morales, the Democrat who took on Phil Gramm in last year's Texas Senate race, ran his campaign from behind the wheel of his pickup.

ECONOMIST: Pickup country

He even handed Queiroz the tactical credit for the 2-0 win over Arsenal at Old Trafford that kept the title race alive, with his suggestion of Phil Neville in a holding role a master-stroke.

BBC: SPORT | Football | Queiroz back on familiar ground

"The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race, " wrote space policy expert Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

BBC: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House