The Truth Is Out There...
Date: Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 (CST )
Topic: UFO's & Aliens
 TOP-secret government X-Files detailing UFO sightings across south east
London have been released. From giant silver orbs hanging in the air
over Gravesend, to small dancing lights in Dartford, they paint an
unprecedented picture of how common close encounters actually are.
These reports were filed among hundreds of others in a secret
government storage facility. Now the stories can be finally brought to
light thanks to a freedom of information request.
In Dartford, six to seven small, bright, oval-shaped objects made
random erratic movements in the early hours of May 28, 2000. A day
later they were seen in Gravesend at 9.45pm. Gravesend saw a giant
'silver ball' hanging in mid-air in 2003, after a while it disappeared
and reappeared an hour later. Two objects, larger than planes with
round fronts were seen blinking red and blue over Erith in 1998.
In Eltham Park in 2000 a witness said they saw a UFO up close. Most of the sightings are little more than just an entry in a log that gathers dust on the shelves of the Ministry of Defence (MOD), but some are willing to speak of their experiences. The Times reported how in April this year, Stacy Shaw, 19 of Lower Range Road, Gravesend, said she and her boyfriend Gavin Drummond, 22, saw 'burning balls of fire' in the sky.
They had seen them hovering over the Tollgate Hotel roundabout, next to the A2. They followed one light to the site of an old BP petrol station nearby. She said: "When it got there it just shot up into the sky really quickly. That was the most amazing part, the way it moved so fast."
Information on UFOs have previously been exempt from freedom of information requests. A spokesman for the MOD said that it would only retain information on potential threats. Nick Pope who recently just stepped down from the government's UFO project complained lack of investigation of reports had left Britain 'wide open to attack'.
However a spokesman for the British UFO Research Association remained sceptical. He said: "If you work on the basis that anything considered to be of potential significance would be retained by the Ministry for any period of time they deemed necessary, then anything freely released into the public domain will ultimately have been viewed as worthless.
Copyright: Bexley Times
|
|