UK reveals UFO files dating back to the '50s
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March 4, 2011, Friday
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BRITAIN yesterday released 35 previously classified files documenting sightings of unidentified flying objects by the military and the public dating back to the 1950s.
The files contain around 8,500 pages which mainly cover the period from 1997 to 2005 and include photographs, drawings and descriptions of flying saucer sightings, as well as letters the Ministry of Defence sent eyewitnesses in response to their accounts.
Policemen, a soldier, a Royal Air Force officer and members of the public report sightings of objects including a "chewy mint shaped solid craft" and aerial objects resembling a "ring," a "jellyfish" and a "silver voile spin top."
In one account a man said he believed he had been "abducted" by aliens in October 1998 after seeing an unidentified craft hover over his London home and finding he had gained an hour of time in the process.
"It was a large cigar-shaped vehicle with big projectiles on each side like wings," he told the ministry. "It seemed to have two bright lights at the front and a white light flashing round and round underneath... I felt quite shaken."
The ministry wrote to the man informing him that the object was probably an airship, adding that the time he had gained was probably the result of the clocks being put back one hour on the night of his close encounter.
Another file released by the National Archives reveals how the RAF was inundated with calls one morning in 1967 after residents of southern England awoke to find six small beeping UFOs lying in a perfect line from the Isle of Sheppey to the Bristol Channel.
A bomb disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs, another was airlifted to the southeastern village of Aldermaston and both the army and the ministry's intelligence unit were mobilized for what was considered a real "alien invasion."
It was later discovered that engineering students at Farnborough Technical College had built the UFOs in a bid to raise money for charity.
"It does raise some questions about what really would happen if at any time in the future there was some kind of instant - would we be prepared?" said David Clarke, author of "The UFO Files" and consultant to the National Archives' UFO project.
One of the files documents the experiences of a retired RAF officer who said he saw a UFO while on holiday in Sri Lanka in April 2004 and sent the ministry supporting photographs.
"I noticed a partial aura in the sky, a minute or so later there was a clap of thunder, then a short while later a ring like a doughnut appeared," he told the ministry, adding that he thought it was an "air burst."
In its reply the ministry suggested he contact the Sri Lankan government.
The files contain around 8,500 pages which mainly cover the period from 1997 to 2005 and include photographs, drawings and descriptions of flying saucer sightings, as well as letters the Ministry of Defence sent eyewitnesses in response to their accounts.
Policemen, a soldier, a Royal Air Force officer and members of the public report sightings of objects including a "chewy mint shaped solid craft" and aerial objects resembling a "ring," a "jellyfish" and a "silver voile spin top."
In one account a man said he believed he had been "abducted" by aliens in October 1998 after seeing an unidentified craft hover over his London home and finding he had gained an hour of time in the process.
"It was a large cigar-shaped vehicle with big projectiles on each side like wings," he told the ministry. "It seemed to have two bright lights at the front and a white light flashing round and round underneath... I felt quite shaken."
The ministry wrote to the man informing him that the object was probably an airship, adding that the time he had gained was probably the result of the clocks being put back one hour on the night of his close encounter.
Another file released by the National Archives reveals how the RAF was inundated with calls one morning in 1967 after residents of southern England awoke to find six small beeping UFOs lying in a perfect line from the Isle of Sheppey to the Bristol Channel.
A bomb disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs, another was airlifted to the southeastern village of Aldermaston and both the army and the ministry's intelligence unit were mobilized for what was considered a real "alien invasion."
It was later discovered that engineering students at Farnborough Technical College had built the UFOs in a bid to raise money for charity.
"It does raise some questions about what really would happen if at any time in the future there was some kind of instant - would we be prepared?" said David Clarke, author of "The UFO Files" and consultant to the National Archives' UFO project.
One of the files documents the experiences of a retired RAF officer who said he saw a UFO while on holiday in Sri Lanka in April 2004 and sent the ministry supporting photographs.
"I noticed a partial aura in the sky, a minute or so later there was a clap of thunder, then a short while later a ring like a doughnut appeared," he told the ministry, adding that he thought it was an "air burst."
In its reply the ministry suggested he contact the Sri Lankan government.
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