Britain's MoD Opens Its UFO Files To The Public Options

[Mextli]

The Ministry of Defence plans to open its "X-Files" on UFO sightings to the public for the first time. Officials have not yet decided on a date for the release of the reports, which date back to 1967, but it is hoped to be within weeks.

The move follows the decision by the French national space agency to release its UFO files in March, the first official body in the world to do so.

UFO buffs will be keen to find out what officials knew about some of the UK's most famous sightings and whether any action was taken. One celebrated event - at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, in 1980 - has been dubbed "Britain's Roswell" after the UFO incident in the US in 1947. At Rendlesham there were several witness reports of a UFO apparently landing. The released files should support or discount claims that radiation was detected at the site after the event.

David Clarke, a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and author of Flying Saucerers: A Social History of UFOlogy, said opening the MoD's files would make it harder to sustain the idea that evidence for the existence of aliens has been suppressed. "The more of this stuff that they put on their website or put in the national archives, the less it will cost the taxpayer, because at the moment people are writing in about individual incidents and they are having respond," said Dr Clarke, referring to requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents due for release are witness reports of apparent UFO sightings, many by civil pilots and military personnel. Most were simply collected and filed by a small, secret unit within defence intelligence called DI55. A few are thought to have been investigated further by the military, but the details have never been made public. There are 24 files due for release, each containing 200-300 reports of sightings, plus internal MoD briefings and correspondence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2071030,00.html

[Soulthriller]

First France, now Britain.


Keep it coming

[Weedling]

I think its a move to slowely de-sensitise the public to the existence of aliens, because they know there going to be coming more often in the coming years

for example, a UFO sighting was reported by ITV (a British TV news channel) a couple of weeks ago, not the kind of stuff you would expect on the national news is it?



This post has been edited by Weedling: May 13 2007, 08:27 AM

[Mextli]

I think its a move to slowely de-sensitise the public to the existence of aliens, because they know there going to be coming more often in the coming years

for example, a UFO sighting was reported by ITV (a British TV news channel) a couple of weeks ago, not the kind of stuff you would expect on the national news is it?

Well if more are coming they better stop by my crib to say hi..............

[Weedling]

Screw that, ive always been scared of getting my ass probed !

[Mextli]

Screw that, ive always been scared of getting my ass probed !

lmfao............

[kikkles]

ive always heard 2010 is when we will have that solid contact with ets not sure if they will be the good or bad ones.

[Soulthriller]

ive always heard 2010 is when we will have that solid contact with ets not sure if they will be the good or bad ones.

But we've already seemingly and allegedly had contact...many many times with many different races in many different time periods

[kikkles]

yes i mean it will be known world wise and u will see more space craft and aliens amoung us not the odd sighting here and there. full on info to the public and contact will be known and will become an everyday occurance

[Mextli]

Honestly guys I will truly believe in aliens if I ever see one live............

[kikkles]

and make a super mega death rag just incase the greys or reptillians come

[Soulthriller]

Tesla built the ultimate death ray...that thing could disintigrate anything in a 200 mile radius

[kikkles]

awwww damn i wanted to build the daeth ray LOL maybe we can "borrow it"