Britain Opens Up Secret UFO Files! Space Aliens
Beware!
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 07:22:01 ?0400?
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Britain Opens Up Secret UFO Files
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
LONDON ? The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm
professionals. Nobody was drinking.
What they saw has never been explained. And they were so worried about
losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the
official reports.
No one, they knew, would believe their claim that an unidentified
flying object landed at the airfield they were overseeing in the east
of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous
speed.
But that''s what they reported happening at four in the afternoon on
April 19, 1984, at an unspecified small airport near the eastern coast
of England.
Their "Report of Unusual Aerial Phenomenon" is one of more than 1,000
pages of formerly secret UFO documents released Wednesday by Britain''s
National Archives.
The air traffic controllers, each with more than eight years on the
job, describe how they were helping guide a small plane to a safe
landing on runway 22 when they were distracted by a brightly lit
object approaching a different runway without clearance.
"Everyone became aware that the object was unidentified," the report
on the incident said. "SATCO [codename for a controller with 14 years''
experience] reports that the object came in ''at speed,'' made a touch
and go on runway 27, then departed at ''terrific speed'' in a ''near
vertical'' climb."
The incident is one of the more credible in the newly public files
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because it was reported by air traffic controllers, said David Clarke,
a UFO expert who has worked with the National Archives on the document
release.
"They were absolutely astonished," he said. "It was a bright, circular
object, flashing different colors, and after it touched down it
disappeared at fantastic speed. The report comes from very qualified
people, and it''s one of the few that remained unexplained."
He said other incidents were at times reported by aircraft crews whose
members also asked to remain anonymous because they did not want to
jeopardize their careers by seeming to believe in UFOs.
In one case, the pilot of a commercial plane crossing the Atlantic
reported an unidentified object just 1.5 nautical miles from his wing.
He speculated that it might be a meteor or a missile.
Although there are some unexplained cases, there is no reported
instance in which Britain''s Ministry of Defense found any evidence of
alien activity or alien spacecraft, said Clarke, who nonetheless
expects conspiracy theories about a UFO coverup by the British defense
establishment to persist.
"The Ministry of Defense doesn''t have any evidence that our defenses
were breached by alien craft," he said. "They never found one, no bits
of one, that''s all we can say."
Clarke said the documents released Wednesday, dealing with the late
1970s and early 1980s, are the first batch of a series that will be
made public in the next few years.
The National Archives is releasing the files now because of numerous
Freedom of Information requests seeking information about the
government''s UFO reports.
Officials said names of many individuals had been blacked out to
protect their privacy and the entire files had been reviewed to make
sure their release did not compromise national security.
Ministry of Defense officials indicate in the files that UFO reports
were only investigated to make sure that no enemy aircraft had
illegally entered British airspace. This was crucial during the Cold
War when Russian planes posed an ongoing threat.
But officials say they did not try to solve the UFO riddles once an
enemy attack had been ruled out.
The vast majority of the reports come from members of the public who
see strange things in the sky and jump to the conclusion that a UFO is
involved even though there is likely a logical scientific explanation
for what they are observing, experts say.
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"Mostly it''s well?intentioned witnesses who are misidentifying
things," said Nick Pope, another UFO expert who helped the Ministry of
Defense investigate the phenomenon. "The most common things are
aircraft lights, bright stars and planets, satellites, meteors,
airships and things like that."
Some of the reports are fairly easy to explain ? and quite possibly
influenced by a pint or two of beer.
This was the case when a number of people leaving a Tunbridge Wells
pub at 9:30 at night reported seeing a strange craft "with red and
green" lights.
Asked by police where it seemed to be traveling, the pub crawlers said
it appeared to be heading for London''s Gatwick Airport.
Case closed.
It didn''t take a scientist to figure out it was a commercial plane
making a routine approach.
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