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MoD release more British UFO files

By T.K. Randall
August 12, 2011 · Comment icon 11 comments

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34 new files containing top secret reports and memos have been released by the UK National Archives.
The files go in to detail about reports investigated by the MoD including strange worm-shaped UFOs sighted in 2003, a sighting at RAF Lakenheath in 1956 and a strange object photographed outside Retford town hall in 2004.
The UK government's National Archives today released 34 UFO files of 9,000 pages from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) containing top secret memos in which UFOs were discussed, along with sightings and incidents reported by members of the public, during the period 1985-2007.


Source: IB Times | Comments (11)




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Comment icon #2 Posted by Framling 13 years ago
9k pages? OMG, which UFO junkie is gonna read this? That's why it was classified. They didn't want anyone to know how much paper they wasted.
Comment icon #3 Posted by mcrom901 13 years ago
9k pages? OMG, which UFO junkie is gonna read this? you can always check the highlights guide
Comment icon #4 Posted by mcrom901 13 years ago
ooops... Retired Fighter Controller recalls night RAF scrambled to intercept UFOIn 2001 Freddie Wimbledon, a retired RAF Fighter Controller, publicly described his role in a famous UFO incident involving the USAF base at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, in August 1956. In an account published by the RAF Radar Museum newsletter, Wimbledon said he was on duty at RAF Neatishead in Norfolk when the USAF reported a UFO on their airfield radars at Lakenheath. He recalled “this activity was clearly seen on Neatishead‟s radar” and by observers on the ground at Lakenheath. The RAF scrambled a Venom inter... [More]
Comment icon #5 Posted by mcrom901 13 years ago
here's another funny one... UFOs and the US GovernmentDEFE 24/1958/1, p265-67 and p117, describe attempts in 1992 by MoD UFO desk officer to contact his opposite number in US via RAF Staff in Washington; he was told the US no longer had any central post or policy dealing with the subject
Comment icon #6 Posted by Hybrid89 13 years ago
hey peeps, was browsing through a random site and found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14486678 Again just want to share it incase some of you havnt seen this. Your views?
Comment icon #7 Posted by angi chiesa 13 years ago
Where are all the alien believers saying I told you so. OK no aliens around this neck of the woods.Yes auch a waste of secrecy and paper
Comment icon #8 Posted by Taut 13 years ago
I'm still trying to get my head around 9K pages - must be something useful in there. Mork and Mindy?????????? WTH was that all about?
Comment icon #9 Posted by hortie 13 years ago
I'm only on page 2312, how bout u guys?
Comment icon #10 Posted by booNyzarC 13 years ago
I downloaded all of the PDFs and have looked through several, but not in depth. So far I haven't found anything really worthy of mention.
Comment icon #11 Posted by Taut 13 years ago
I downloaded all of the PDFs and have looked through several, but not in depth. So far I haven't found anything really worthy of mention. Well, Boo, knowing all government's penchant for using a thousand pages to say absolutely nothing, I have to admit I'm deeply shocked. Good luck with the search, keep us posted. Gotta be something in that tangle worth seeing.


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