Britain's X-Files: UFO Reports by RAF, BA Pilots & Police

[polyb]

By Robert Verkaik

22 January 2005

They contain Britain's very own X-Files: thousands of classified documents detailing credible observations of unidentified flying objects reported by RAF personnel, British Airways pilots and senior police officers.

Now under the Freedom of Information laws, files previously held by the Ministry of Defence's special UFO department, known as SF4, are being released to the public.

Among the most credible reports of a possible visit by extraterrestrial life-forms is one made by an RAF pilot and two NCOs at RAF Boulmer in Northumberland.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=603470

Thought I'd pass it along!

 

[spender]

Maybe finally we get to know who makes them crop circles.

 

[polyb]

Maybe finally we get to know who makes them crop circles.

Probably just a few bored mathematicians with a few too many pints in their belly!

I really like their work though! Crop circles are becoming a freegin art form!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Thanks Polyb!
Here is where many official UK UFO reports are found.
Ministry of Defense
http://www.mod.uk

For example, the Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters/RAF Woodbridge case
http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart1.pdf

Edit: Search UFO here http://www.foi.mod.uk
I don't see any new docs yet.

 

[matthyaouw]

Probably just a few bored mathematicians with a few too many pints in their belly!

Nah, if booze were an issue, they'd be more like crop poorly formed ellipses. Too much caffine on the other hand...

 

[mouseonmoon]

MoD's alien files are out of this world
By Cathy Newman and Jean Eaglesham
Published: February 3 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/02ee9662-7589-11d9-9608-00000e2511c8.html*

" Following a request under the Freedom of Information Act by the Financial Times, the Ministry of Defence has revealed it remains "totally open-minded" about the possibility that life exists beyond Earth."

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MoD Reveals 88 Sightings In '04
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=607253
The Independent - London, UK 02-03-05

"That account was deemed so sensitive to the national interest
that the MoD had delayed its release for an extra three years.
But under the Freedom of Information Act, which came into force
on 1 January, the file has been declassified."

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UFOs Are Out There Say Real X-Files
Source: Evening Standard - London, UK

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16353133

02-03-05
By Mark Prigg
Science Correspondent
Evening Standard

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How Britain's X-Files Said That UFOs Were Just A Waste Of Time
Source: The Times of London - UK-02-04-05
By David Charter

"Secret committee dismissed reports of flying saucers more than
50 years ago

The truth is out there somewhere... but it has taken the
Ministry of Defence 54 years to release secret papers ruling out
the existence of UFOs."

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Pie in the sky
Source: The Times of London - UK

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1469712,00.html

2-04-05

"Flying saucers are close encounters with the human imagination"

"UFOs do not exist. It is official. The minutes of the Ministry
of Defence’s Flying Saucer Working Party of 1961 were published
yesterday. In the earthbound prose of official reports, they
recommend no more public money should be spent on chasing UFOs.

Typical of the land-based bureaucrats to shoot down these
wonderful figments of imagination. The MoD report cruelly
debunks UFOlogy, close encounters of the first or any kind,
little green men with eyes on stalks, and a popular form of
romance on page and screen. Astronomers now agree that there is
no evidence for the visitation of Earth by aliens, and that the
obsession with UFOs has delayed legitimate research into the
possibility of intelligent life elsewhere."