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Files released on UFO sightings
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 (CDT) by Isis
 Secret files on UFO sightings have been made available for the first time by the Ministry of Defence. The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987. They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained objects being spotted by the public, armed forces and police officers. One man explained in great detail his "physical and psychic contact" with green aliens since he was a child.
The writer said that one of them, called Algar, was killed in 1981 by another race of beings as he was about to make contact with the UK government. The letter's author said he visited their bases in the Wirral and Cheshire, while his wife reported seeing a UFO shot down over Wallasey on Merseyside. The eight released files are part of almost 200 files set to be made available over the next four years.
These documents will be available to download for free for the first month. A spokesman for the National Archives said they were now becoming available after several requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, and also because of a "proactive move by the Ministry of Defence for an open and transparent government".
Much of the
previously classified paperwork is made up of correspondence from the
public sent to government officials, such as the MoD and then-prime
minister Margaret Thatcher.
Another document reveals
the experiences of a 78-year-old man who alleged that he met an alien
beside Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1983.
He said he went on board the craft, giving a detailed explanation of it, before being quizzed by the aliens about his age.
He was then told: "You can go. You are too old and too infirm for our purpose."
'Britain's Roswell'
Another letter, from the
director of a group called the Wigan Ariel Phenomena Investigation
Team, asks the MoD if it had a code of practice for dealing with an
alien invasion.
A further document reveals
how, on 21 February 1982, a group of customers and staff at a Tunbridge
Wells pub reported an unknown object with green and red flashing lights
- seen heading in the direction of Gatwick airport.
There are some reports from
more official sources. The United States Air Force filed a report about
two USAF policemen who saw "unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF
Woodbridge" in Suffolk in December 1980.
This relates to the
well-known incident of an alleged alien encounter at Rendlesham Forest,
dubbed "Britain's Roswell" after the supposed contact made with aliens
at Roswell in the United States.
Several drawings are visible in the files from those keen to demonstrate what they had seen.
One such sketch was made by
Metropolitan Police officers, who were called out to a house in
Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow on 26 April, 1984.
Three officers spent an
hour observing the object in the sky, which "moved erratically from
side to side, up and down and to and fro, not venturing far from the
original position".
One of the Pcs, who saw the
object through binoculars, described it as "circular in the middle with
what appeared to be a dome on top and underneath" with different
coloured lights.
Common explanations
Visitors to the National Archives site will also find a videocast from Nick Pope, a British UFO specialist.
Mr Pope picked out one incident where a UFO was spotted over central London.
"This is a very interesting
illustration that, actually, UFOs are seen in built-up areas. People
have this idea they're seen in desolate, rural places.
"There's a sighting
actually on Waterloo bridge, when a number of witnesses actually
stopped to look at this UFO that was seen over the Thames."
Mr Pope said the most
common explanation for UFOs were aircraft lights, bright stars and
planets, satellites, meteors, or airships.
A detailed briefing is
available within the files, which was prepared by the MoD for Lord
Strabolgi, then government chief whip, for a debate on UFOs in the
House of Lords in January 1979.
The briefing said that
"there is nothing to indicate that UFOlogy is anything but claptrap"
and that the idea of an "inter-governmental conspiracy of silence" was
"the most astonishing and the most flattering claim of all".
Copyright: BBC News
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