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Post by auntym on Jul 12, 2012 11:56:58 GMT -6
The UFO Files: MoD documents 'absolutely fascinating'[/color] Former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator, Nick Pope, says the latest classified documents to be released by the National Archives are likely to provoke controversy. CLICK TO SEE VIDEO: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9394959/The-UFO-Files-MoD-documents-absolutely-fascinating.html1:20PM BST 12 Jul 2012 UFO sighting have been reported in dozens of locations across Britain, with silver suited “faceless humanoids” in West Wales and suspicious-looking “men in black” in Lincolnshire, according to Ministry of Defence documents. The documents, published by the National Archives for the first time today, detail a bizarre list of weird and wonderful alien sightings. They include abductions, shape-shifting objects at a Chelsea football ground and one report from a 1950s pilot who said his experience of a “brightly illuminated object” had been accepted as “quite routine”. The 6,700 pages of documents, compiled by the Ministry of Defence in relation to UFOs and extraterrestrials, have now been published online. CLICK TO SEE VIDEO: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9394959/The-UFO-Files-MoD-documents-absolutely-fascinating.html
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Post by auntym on Jul 12, 2012 12:18:47 GMT -6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18797691#TWEET17221112 July 2012 Blair was briefed on UK UFO files[/color] Prime Minister Tony Blair was briefed on the UK's files about UFO sightings in 1998, newly declassified MoD documents have revealed. Writer Nick Redfern urged him to "consider making available for public scrutiny all of the many and varied UFO reports compiled by the government". The request came as the government began to implement Freedom of Information (FOI requests). Some 6,700 pages of UFO documents have been released by the National Archives. Chelsea FC sighting The documents also include details of a briefing made before a House of Lords debate on UFOs in 1979, and reveal that former prime minister John Major had been asked by a fellow MP in 1996 whether the government would set up a national inquiry into UFO sightings. The declassified documents - from the MoD unit which investigated UFO claims from 1950 until it was shut down in 2009 - also include several sightings and investigations. These include: * A spate of sightings in west Wales in 1977 which included a hotel owner reportedly seeing two tall, silver-suited "faceless humanoids" which began making measurements * A UFO sighting in Spalding, Lincolnshire, which led to the witness being visited by three tall men in black suits who "seemed to move silently" * An RAF Air Commodore describing in a memo to Defence Intelligence Staff that he had seen a UFO flying above him when he was flying at 40,000 feet * A mounted police officer seeing a "square/diamond shaped object moving across the sky and changing shape" whilst on duty at Chelsea FC ground in 1999 *A memo noting claims the naval task force sailing to liberate the Falklands in 1982 had been shadowed by UFOs - "presumably Little Green Men in ponchos" Dr David Clarke, author of the book The UFO files and senior lecturer in journalism from Sheffield Hallam University, pushed to have these files released. He said: "These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall." CONTINUE READING: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18797691#TWEET172211
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Post by auntym on Jul 12, 2012 12:55:22 GMT -6
Britain's former real-life Man In Black reveals the secrets of his UFO job [/size] Published on Jul 12, 2012 by itnnews UFO files unlocked: The secrets of Britain's real-life 'Man In Black'. Report by Geraldine Cooper. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/itn
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Post by auntym on Jul 12, 2012 20:31:29 GMT -6
UFO File release 9th by UFO National Archive Summer July 2012 [/color] Published on Jul 12, 2012 by JamesEBEs Original video link by the UFO National Archive Release 9... ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Newly released UFO files from the UK government[/color] Files released in July 2012 The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents, drawings, letters and parliamentary questions ranging from 1965 up to 2008. Discover the role of the UFO Desk Officers, what they really thought of alien visitors, their ideas to harness alien technology as a weapon, and their briefings to Tony Blair on UFO policy. Start by reading our highlights guide (PDF, 358kb) to help navigate your way through the files. Six of the files (DEFE 31/189/1-194/1) contain some duplicates of UFO sighting reports copied by the Air Secretariat between 1996-1999. The original papers were released by The National Archives in February 2010. Due to the large size of some of these files, we recommend you save them to your computer before opening them. Please right click on the links and select the ‘save’ option. CLICK TO READ FILES: ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
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Post by auntym on Jun 26, 2013 11:40:58 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/mod-files-no-terrorists-0625 MoD Files: No Terrorists, No Ultimate EvilBy Diane Tessman June 25, 2013 As the MoD files are opened, we hear that United Kingdom skies are being left defenseless because UFO occupants could be terrorists in the sky. Terrorists? Where is the evidence or the proof? Or even an indication? The word “terrorist” is bandied about a lot these days. Here in America, we have given up a number of our freedoms willingly when we are told we might be the target of terrorist activity. The term “terrorist threat” is now being applied to teenagers who verbally threaten another child at school; in the old days, we might have called it, “one kid threatening to beat up another kid.” In this article, I am not trying to judge how right or wrong the abundance and over-abundance of the use of “terrorist” is, but I do wish to ask the question in which UFO research finds itself immersed: “Are the aliens good guys or bad guys?” Now we hear the word “terrorist” applied to aliens out of the blue as MoD files were opened – files which gave no indication of such. And, the United Kingdom is still there, their skies apparently unguarded from the aliens. Some feel aliens are cold, unfeeling bullies who are monsters from unknown space, or parasites and slave masters from within Earth’s other densities – and now we have an update: Aliens might also be terrorists. Another individual says, “What is this guy talking about? My experience and the experiences of many others have been with peaceful, intelligent, beings who made such a positive difference in our lives that we can’t even express it in words. They are showing us the way to our future!” A third individual says, “The evidence is that these beings, whatever they are and whoever they are, have been with us throughout Earth history and certainly since 1947. The hard fact is, they could have wiped us out at any given moment over these many years and these millennia – and they have not. Terrorists, by definition, intend physical harm to the group they oppose. UFO occupants have such advanced technology and even, perhaps, such formidable powers of the mind, that we are ants beneath their feet – yet, they have never annihilated us humans or even a segment of us. It is a reasonable conclusion that there are many kinds of aliens visiting us from many sources and origins. For one thing, the variety of craft in our skies indicates this fact. Some craft seem “nuts and bolts” while others seem ethereal and misty. Of course we can’t jump to the conclusion that the good guys are have ethereal-looking craft while the bad guys drive mini-Death Stars. It is too easy to apply human conclusions to something we really don’t have a handle on – yet.
CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/mod-files-no-terrorists-0625
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Post by auntym on Oct 1, 2014 11:22:38 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/mod-reloaded-1001 MoD UFO FILES RELOADEDBy Nick Pope October 01, 2014 In June 2013 the UK Ministry of Defence and the UK National Archives announced the end of a five-year project to declassify and release the UK government’s entire archive of UFO files. The media and the public were told that this was the end of the programme and that there were no more files to release. It can now be revealed that this statement was incorrect. Now it transpires that there are another eighteen UFO files still to be released. Some of the material is over forty years old, but some is very recent. The Ministry of Defence will aim to review, redact and pass these files to the National Archives by December 2014, and it will then take the National Archives around nine months to prepare the material for release, so the last of these real-life X-Files are unlikely to be made public until late in 2015. The files include ones from air defence specialists whose task, in relation to the MoD’s UFO investigations, was to determine whether visual sightings could be corroborated by radar evidence. There are also some files from one of the most secret parts of the MoD, the Defence Intelligence Staff. Ironically, there are even files about the release of the UFO files themselves, as staff discuss copyright and other legal issues arising from publishing material (including photographs and videos) sent in by members of the public. As with previous releases, the policy files are generally more revealing than files containing sighting reports and general correspondence from the public. Additionally, while there are some interesting cases in these yet-to-be-released files, some of the documents are duplicates of ones previously released. Needless to say, this new revelation is pretty embarrassing, and it’s not the first problem that has resulted from the release of the UK government’s UFO files. The release of the previous files led to some tension between different government departments, because the National Archives wanted to promote it as a big story about open government and the Freedom of Information Act. The MoD liked this sort of publicity too, but was in a difficult position. The problem was that over the years the MoD had consistently downplayed the true extent of its interest and involvement in the subject, and had told the UK Parliament, the media and the public that the UFO phenomenon was of only very limited interest, and of no defence significance. However, when the files were actually released, it transpired that there were around 55,000 pages of documents, including intelligence studies that had been classified Secret UK Eyes Only. Pretty impressive for a subject on which there was, allegedly, very limited interest. CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/mod-reloaded-1001
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Post by auntym on Dec 29, 2014 13:57:23 GMT -6
www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2014/09/another-set-ufo-x-files-will-disclosed-uk-government.html Another Set OF UFO X-Files Will Be Disclosed By the UK GovernmentPosted on September 25, 2014 The public is assumed to be blinded by governments with the truth about UFOs and other-worldly related activities, but there have been reports that the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is planning to declassify more of its X-Files by making them available to the public on the National Archives. Nick Pope, former MoD official, is less thrilled by the news and said that this is a huge embarrassment for the government for not fulfilling its promise to the nation. According to the report by The Mirror, there was a promise made by the government department that it planned to disclose all by June in 2013, but it appears that it was not true to the promise as there will be 18 files yet to be publicly accessed by September next year. Pope said that this is embarrassing as last summer, they made announcement to the media and the public that those were all the UFO files and further said that this was the end of a five-year programme to declassify and make public the entire archive. However, this isn’t the case as they recently announced that they’ve found a bunch of further UFO files. Pope added that he understands if people tend to be suspicious. Nonetheless, ufologists, conspiracy theorists and truth seekers would likely welcome the development, which follow the footsteps of France. UFO files were declassify in 2007 by France, making the country as the first to open up its UFO files. The national space agency documented on a website over 1,600 sightings spanning more than five decades. CONTINUE READING: www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2014/09/another-set-ufo-x-files-will-disclosed-uk-government.html
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Post by auntym on Jun 15, 2016 13:55:52 GMT -6
www.express.co.uk/news/weird/680248/UFO-BREAKTHROUGH-UK-X-files-due-out-in-weeks-could-prove-aliens-DID-visit-Rendlesham UFO BREAKTHROUGH: UK X-files due out in weeks could prove aliens DID visit RendleshamLONG-awaited British X-FILES that are expected to shed new light on the mysterious Rendlesham mass UFO sighting case should be made public within weeks.By Jon Austin / www.express.co.uk/journalist/122435/Jon-AustinPUBLISHED: Wed, Jun 15, 2016 Will the truth over Rendlesham be released in the files? The 18 UFO-related files only came to light last year, when the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) admitted they existed and had been withheld from a previous declassification exercise. In 2013 the MoD claimed it had made public all of its formerly top-secret alien files, but following Freedom of Information Act requests, the existence of the remaining documents was revealed. UFO disclosure campaigners have been fighting ever since for their release. Express.co.uk has previously revealed the MoD had passed the files to the National Archive, which would decide the date of their release. Now German news-blog on edge-science and the paranormal site Genzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de (Grewi), have revealed they will go public in August. In reply to an enquiry by GreWi-editor Andreas Muller, a spokesperson of the National Archives‘ Information Management Department said: "I have been advised by our transfer team that they are currently in the process of finalising the listing for the records, which include the UFO files, and they are hopeful that the records will be transferred from the MoD to The National Archives within the next month. "Some of the files need to have their closure/access status agreed by the Advisory Council on Public Records, which meets in July, so the transfer team are looking at probably August before the records will be released to the public." It is believed some of the content centres around investigations into the December 1980 Rendlesham case - often dubbed Britain's Roswell after the world famous alleged flying saucer crash in the New Mexico desert in 1947, that was admitted and later denied by the US military. The Rendlesham legend was born when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980. Colonel Charles Halt, 76, who was base deputy commander at the time, was not present during the first encounter, but was told next morning. CONTINUE READING: www.express.co.uk/news/weird/680248/UFO-BREAKTHROUGH-UK-X-files-due-out-in-weeks-could-prove-aliens-DID-visit-Rendlesham
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Post by auntym on Dec 31, 2016 15:03:14 GMT -6
www.nickpope.net/mod-ufo-files.htmMoD UFO Files The British Government is in the process of declassifying and releasing its entire archive of UFO files. Nick Pope worked on these files, wrote many of the documents in them, and – through his hundreds of media interviews – has been the public face of the release process. The following Q&A with Nick Pope is drawn from previous interviews. It gives an overview of the release of the files and is also designed to be a quotable resource for journalists covering the story (see especially the quotes at the end).
How much material has been released?209 files and around 52,000 pages of documentation have been released so far. This is in addition to a number of UFO files that had already been released under the old Public Record Act, the best-known provision of which was the so-called 30-year rule, which said files could be considered for public release 30 years after the date of the most recent document contained in them. Why were these files released?There were three reasons. Firstly, the French Government released their UFO files in 2007, setting a precedent that would have been difficult for us to ignore. Secondly, the MoD hoped this would generate good PR about the Department’s commitment to open government and freedom of information, while helping to dispel rumours of a cover-up. But the third and biggest reason was that the MoD devised this as a means of dealing with the huge number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests the Department was getting on UFOs. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, there were many months when the MoD got more FOIA requests on UFOs than on any other subject. The workload involved in responding to them on a case-by-case basis was huge. But once the decision had been made (in 2007) to release the files proactively, all future FOIA requests could be dealt with simply by saying that the Department was in the process of releasing the material. In this way, new FOIA requests would not require a substantive answer, because “information intended for future release” is one of a number of FOIA exemptions. Similarly, once all the files have been released, pretty much all FOIA requests on UFOs can be dealt with by a statement saying that all information held on the subject is available at the National Archives. How exactly did the release take place?Firstly, all of the material had to be scanned-in, so it was available electronically. The MoD then had to redact the files. That is, they went through them word by word and blacked out anything still classified, or anything covered by any of the other exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act. Then, the unclassified/declassified files were transferred to the National Archives. This was a slow and time-consuming process, so the files were released in separate batches. There have been ten batches released to date. The first batch was made public in May 2008, with successive batches following every 6 months or so. The most recent batch (the tenth) was released in June 2013. The remaining 18 files are likely to be made public later in 2015, or in 2016, either in a single, final batch, or possibly in two batches. CONTINUE READING: www.nickpope.net/mod-ufo-files.htm
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Post by auntym on Jun 26, 2017 18:48:30 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4639914/Britain-s-X-Files-UFO-spotted-Skegness.html 'Britain's X-Files' reveal a UFO was spotted floating above Skegness for seven hours but RAF officials were told to IGNORE itBy Phoebe Weston For Mailonline Published: 09:32 EDT, 26 June 2017 *RAF were 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange light *The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a shambolic reaction *A government official wrote to the Ministry of Defence voicing concerns *The cache of 15 files contains details of UFO sightings for the last 50 years *Strangely, the files have not yet been digitised sparking conspiracy theories *UFO hunters are hoping the files shed light on the Rendlesham Forest incident A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above the Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'. The RAF was 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange bright lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it. The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a shambolic reaction which some believed could have put the nation at serious risk in one of the country's most mysterious UFO sightings. The UFO files have revealed that on the morning of 5 October 1996 bright lights were reported by several civilians but the Defence Secretary at the time, Michael Portillo, did nothing, according to a report from The Sun. An unnamed government official wrote to the Ministry of Defence voicing concerns. 'The RAF is supposed to, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on', the minister wrote. 'Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!' he said. 'While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause'. Reports of the strange lights made front pages and were serialised in various TV shows at the time. 'I remember this well. It was a bizarre case', Nick Pope who was part of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project from 1991 to 1994 told MailOnline. 'The official verdict was that the anomalous radar return might have been caused by a nearby church spire (an effect that can happen in certain meteorological conditions) but, in parallel, there were visual sightings from witnesses including police officers, and these were more difficult to explain. 'Furthermore, the events took place in the middle of a 'UFO flap' where there had been numerous sightings from locals.' The late Martin Redmond - an MP who had taken a close, personal interest in the UFO phenomenon - raised the question with the MoD Mr Pope explained. 'He was concerned that whatever the cause of the radar return, it seemed the RAF had done nothing, perhaps because of the MoD's notorious defensiveness when it came to the anything to do with UFOs. 'He felt that, at the very least, further enquiries should have been made and maybe a jet scrambled - which would have cleared up the mystery in minutes. 'The bottom line was that Martin Redmond felt these events highlighted a fundamental weakness in the UK's air defence system', he said. The letter also suggests a police video of the lights mysteriously disappeared. CONTINUE READING: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4639914/Britain-s-X-Files-UFO-spotted-Skegness.html
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Post by auntym on May 6, 2018 22:38:03 GMT -6
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/06/documents-reveal-how-mod-played-down-ufo-thesis-in-x-files-study No time for aliens: how the MoD tried to prove no one's out thereReport collating a decade of UFO sightings in 1990s was intended to protect ministry from more X-Files inspired requestsby Damien Gayle / www.theguardian.com/profile/damien-gayleSun 6 May 2018 Lenticular UFO clouds over Perthshire, Scotland. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian It was 1997, the 50th anniversary of the suspected flying saucer crash at Roswell in New Mexico, and the heyday of the paranormal mystery series The X-Files. The English-speaking world was gripped by UFO-mania. But what seemed a delightful mystery to some was becoming a headache for the spooks at Britain’s Defence Intelligence Staff. Analysts at the DI55 office, the department lumbered with the UFO brief, were being peppered with requests from ufologists – and even parliamentary questions – for information on flying saucers, taking up time they felt would be better spent on terrestrial defence matters. So top brass decided to undertake a definitive study of the unit’s collection of reported UFO sightings to establish, once and for all, whether there was anything in them. Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent direct to you Read more Previously unseen documents reveal that, far from being an objective study into the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors, the report was intended from the start to absolve the Ministry of Defence of responsibility for investigating sightings. Messages between officials at DIS and the contractor carrying out the research show that it focused from the outset only “on the possible threat to the UK [from hostile foreign powers] and technology acquisition” and not “X-Files activities such as alien abductions”. A separate memo says: “It shouldn’t be driven by a UFO thesis.” The study replaced one mystery with another after its author determined that the UFO sightings were a result of unexplained plasma formations in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, DI55 announced afterwards that it would no longer accept UFO reports. The documents show the deliberations behind the research, which began in 1997 and collated the previous decade’s worth of UFO sightings – known in the technical jargon of DIS as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – in a database. The identities of all the officers involved in the conversation, which lasted several years, are redacted. Many other excerpts are blacked out, with exemptions cited including risks to national security and international relations. “The increasing media attention given to this subject in recent months has almost doubled the work of the desk officers involved to the detriment of other tasks more directly relevant to the work of the branch,” one memo says, adding that it was now time to “reappraise the situation” and clarify DIS’s role in the issue. Officials complain about the cost in time and money of investigating sightings and responding to questions. “The problem is unlikely to subside, especially as the US brings into service over the next decade high flying capabilities such as Global Star, Dark Star, the X-33 and, should it come to fruition, the manned spaceplane,” writes one senior officer. “Other nations will follow, especially with UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], which may permit risk-taking in unauthorised penetrations of airspace.” Other correspondents remained open-minded, with one arguing that in the absence of analysis “we can not discount the possibility that UAPs are real” or that they could be natural phenomena but with “possible military applications”. “It could be argued that UAPs pose a potential threat to the defence of the realm since we have no idea what they are,” the writer continues. It emerges that the analyst commissioned to write the report had a personal interest in the subject. Pointing out that the same UFO questionnaire had been in use since the 1950s, he notes: “I filled one in myself after a sortie when flying in the RAF at the time.” The author adds that he wishes to keep a low profile for fear that the media “would undoubtedly link [this work] with my other known activities on SDI [strategic defence initiative, better known as the Star Wars project], BM [ballistic missile] defence etc.” What becomes clear from the files is a fear among officials of further inciting UFO-mania. “We need to be very careful about expanding ‘UFO’ business and thereby sending the public a misleading message about the extent of the MoD’s interest,” says one memo. Another says: “Keep the classification low – I suggest restricted – in order not to put it in the public domain but at the same time prevent the criticism that MoD is hiding something under the cloak of secrecy.” The report was completed in 2000 and duly discounted the possibility of alien spaceships over the UK, giving DI55 the grounds it needed to no longer accept reports of sightings. But what DIS did next could only fuel the imagination of conspiracy theorists. It destroyed the files on which the report was based, and even the database in which they had collated for analysis. David Clarke, a research fellow and lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and a specialist in modern folklore, obtained the files from the MoD after a freedom of information battle. “They always say that the public gets the wrong idea about UFOs, but they’ve actually encouraged that themselves by destroying the files. They’ve actually encouraged conspiracy theorists through their own paranoia,” he said. The MoD does not officially respond to queries relating to UFOs. It closed its UFO desk in 2009 after it was decided it served no defence purpose and that it took staff away from more valuable defence-related activities. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/06/documents-reveal-how-mod-played-down-ufo-thesis-in-x-files-study
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Post by auntym on Jul 3, 2018 14:49:54 GMT -6
www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/final-three-ufo-files-released-by-uk-government-reveal-a-very-british-conspiracy/ Final Three UFO Files Released By UK Government Reveal A Very British ConspiracyBy Katie Spalding / 02 Jul 2018, In the latest in a series of revelations bound to excite any conspiracy theorists out there, the UK government has finally released the last of its newly-declassified UFO files. Those following the saga will remember that the UK’s Ministry of Defence supposedly released all its UFO-related intelligence back in 2013 – before admitting that 18 documents had been held back as they contained potentially sensitive information. Then, last year, 15 of those documents were released without fanfare, finally revealing to ufologists the disappointing news that “no UFO sighting … has ever revealed anything to suggest an extra-terrestrial presence.” Now, finally, the last three are cleared and ready to go to the National Archives. And, while you won’t find stories of little green men or narrowly-avoided alien invasions, they do show the UK took the threat of UFOs – or, to use their own incredibly British terminology, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP) – more seriously than they have been willing to admit. The first revelation contained in the new files shows that the MoD ran two desks dealing with UFO sightings between 1947 and 1997. Although one of these desks was known to the public, taking calls from citizens reporting possible UFO sightings, the second was classified and staffed by intelligence experts working to investigate possible extra-terrestrial threats. One apparently serious concern revealed by the dossier was that a hostile government – China or the then-USSR – had captured their own UFO and might use alien technology to attack the UK. And obviously, Britain was on the lookout for their own interplanetary leg-up: the reports show that officials expressed a major interest in the UK finding their own little ET to help them fight the communists. "Monitor all reports in case in the future the hitherto unknown/not understood underlying phenomena is being exploited by another nation," a senior Air Force Commander is revealed to have written. "An actual – or potential enemy – could develop a flying device with the characteristics that these phenomena seem to have …high velocities, sharp manoeuvre, stationary flight and few radar returns.” The RAF was to be informed of “…novel technologies which might be useful to their programmes ...Propulsion, stealth and any novel electromagnetic technologies are of particular interest.” The MoD’s UFO unit was closed in 2000 after an investigation, also declassified this year, concluded that UAP reports "do not demonstrably provide information useful for Defence Intelligence.” But is that just another layer of the conspiracy? Perhaps the truth is still out there ... but, sadly, the chances are it's probably not. www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/final-three-ufo-files-released-by-uk-government-reveal-a-very-british-conspiracy/
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Post by auntym on Jul 5, 2018 15:55:28 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5906113/Secret-dossier-reveals-British-spies-spent-half-century-trying-catch-UFO.htmlSecret dossier reveals British spies spent half a century trying to catch a UFO so they could use its alien technology to build SUPERWEAPONS *Declassified documents reveal Government spent 50 years trying to catch a UFO *Reports reveal British spies feared China or the Soviet Union had captured one *UFO desks closed in 1997 after fears it was 'distracting' spies from other work By Katie French For Mailonline / www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Katie+French+For+Mailonline 1 July 2018 A secret dossier reveals British spies spent half a century trying to catch a UFO so they could use its alien technology to build superweapons. Declassified files reveal the Government was concerned the Soviet Union or China had impounded a UFO and were harvesting its secrets to develop super-fast warplanes. The cache of documents reveal between 1947 to 1997, intelligence services ran two UFO desks - one was a public-facing desk where people could phone in sightings. The real work was carried out in the background by spies set to investigate. The UFO desks ran until 1997 by which time word had come from Whitehall that security services 'investigating 'X files stuff such as alien abductions' had become a diversion from their main duties. A secret dossier reveals British spies spent half a century trying to catch a UFO so they could use its alien technology to build superweapons (stock image) A review was ordered to confirm the desk should be shut down, but also to determine whether anything had been learned over the years which could be useful to military. Now a report called UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) in the UK Air Defence Region is part of three files running to more than 1,000 pages set to be released after being declassified. They were held back from the UFO records earmarked for transfer to the National Archives as part of the Open Government project from 2008 to 2013. Declassified files reveal the Government feared the Soviet Union or China had impounded a UFO and were harvesting its secrets to develop super-fast warplanes (stock image)But earlier this year, a complete set of redacted copies was sent to Dr Clarke ahead of their release to the National Archives, which is imminent. The documents reveal the RAF expressed great interest in finding an UFO to help them come up with an innovative way of beating enemies during the Cold War. An air chief wrote the RAF was 'particularly interested in any novel technologies which might be useful to their programmes'. Another air force commander feared the enemy may have already seized a UFO, writing: 'Monitor all reports in case in the future the hitherto unknown/not understood underlying phenomena is being exploited by another nation. 'An actual - or potential enemy - could develop a flying device with the characteristics that these phenomena seem to have.' Spies were given given tips on what to look out for when identifying foreign objects. The unnamed commander wrote particular attention should be paid to any aircraft behaving 'like a UFO'. He said: 'Look out for high velocities, sharp manoeuvre, stationary 'flight', and few radar returns.' Dr Clarke said: 'MoD have been desperately trying to delay the release of these formerly secret and highly sensitive papers for more than a decade. 'Even though they have been partly censored they can't conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFOtechnology - or what they coyly refer to as 'novel weapon technology'. 'And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology - wherever it came from - before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first. 'Although this was 1997, Russia was still regarded as undefeated enemy with a weapons programme regarded as a threat to the West.' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5906113/Secret-dossier-reveals-British-spies-spent-half-century-trying-catch-UFO.html
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Post by auntym on Jul 24, 2018 12:53:38 GMT -6
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/ Another steaming load of crapBy Billy Cox / devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/ Thursday, Jul 19, 2018 Maybe you caught the recent Fleet Street UFOrgasm over the latest batch of documents scheduled for release by the British Ministry of Defence. David Clarke, journalism professor and adviser to the UK’s National Archives UFO records declassification project from 2008 to 2013, got a sneak peek earlier this year and posted his take on it in May. Clarke received more than 2,500 “heavily redacted” papers from the MoD in January, shortly after the New York Times broke the story about the Pentagon’s deeply buried Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program in December. As Clarke told The Sun, “The MoD have been desperately trying to delay the release of these formerly secret and highly sensitive papers for more than a decade.” What Clarke saw doesn’t contain any bombshells, but it’s easy to understand the official discomfort. In 1997, as the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident neared and public interest was soaring, the uniforms in the UK commissioned a secret study they could use to justify pulling the plug on their storefront “UFO desk,” which dutifully logged mostly prosaic sightings from anybody who saw things in the sky they couldn’t understand. Beaucoup paperwork, limited resources, a lot of stenography — who needs it? But would it really look like the MoD had performed due diligence on this issue if its own high-ranking insiders were on record with (newly released) comments like this: “It could be argued that UAPs [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] pose a potential threat to the Defence of the Realm since we have no idea what they are!” And what if the MoD was officially interested in, as the new docs confirm, aspects of UFOs “which might be made use of by UK for military purposes,” with “propulsion, stealth and novel electromagnetic technologies … of particular interest.” Especially after decades of feigning scorn or boredom? Well, the tabloids did what they always do. “Britain’s race to beat Russia to alien weapons REVEALED in secret files” – the Daily Express; “Secret files reveal MI5 spent 50 YEARS hunting UFOs in bid to steal alien tech to make super-weapons – and feared Russia already had flying saucers” – The Sun. And of course, if you’re writing for rags like The Sun, you can’t help but end a good yarn with an unsourced kicker like this: “Alien experts claim there have been more than 100,000 recorded UFO sightings worldwide in the past 100-plus years.” “Alien experts.” 🙂 You guys! For De Void, however, the payoff was embedded in Clarke’s update on that sneaky little MoD study, known as Project Condign. Because, years ago, after reading the Condign explanation for the mysterious events unfolding upstairs, my jaw dropped and shattered the glass tabletop below. Titled “UAPs in the UK Air Defense Region” and originally classified as “Secret UK Eyes Only,” this long-winded spin job was assembled in 1997-2000, and it surfaced in 2006 as a result of a FOIA filed by Clarke. Advancing conclusions that sounded at once bizarre and weirdly familiar, the formerly classified project flat-out jumped the shark. “Based on all available evidence …” stated the analysis, the puzzle “does not have any significant Defence Intelligence value.” What UAP witnesses are seeing, it proclaimed, were “natural but relatively rare phenomena,” most likely rare meteorological events or “buoyant plasmas.” Said plasmas can cause “the temporary malfunction of internal combustion engines and radios,” and can “be naturally reshaped by the airflow in which it travels to look remarkably like a typically reported ‘classic UFO’ shape.” They may exhibit “radiated effects … to be sufficient to cause scorching of human skin and damage to nearby terrestrial objects.” These plasmas “have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobe of the human brain.” Also: “These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced.” In other words, plasmas can make you think what you’ve seen is a UFO. Fool. After Condign solved the UFO riddle once and for all, Clarke writes that he has since discovered the identity – singular – of its unnamed author, “a retired RAF pilot and intelligence officer who flew top secret missions during the Cold War.” In describing the UAPs as atmospheric plasmas, not ET, the writer’s references were based, Clarke claims, on “unreliable material from Russian sources and popular books on earthquake lights and ball lightning … “At no point in his 463 page report does he say ‘atmospheric plasmas’ are a theoretical concept and not proven. The fact remains that ‘plasmas’ are no more valid than extraterrestrials as a scientific explanation for the unexplained residue of UFO sightings.” Furthermore, “the new papers also show his plasma theory was not taken seriously by his superiors. There is no evidence any of his recommendations were acted upon.” Well, all except for this one thing. In 1998, two years before the study was complete, the anonymous author stated the (intelligence branch) “DI55 should no longer be involved with UAP monitoring.” Two years later, in Y2K, the MoD shut down its UFO unit, then disconnected its hotline phone in 2009, Deja vu, anybody? Fifty years ago, unable to untangle the Gordian knot of UFOs, the U.S. Air Force contracted the University of Colorado to get the American military off the same hook. The head of that effort, nuclear physicist and Manhattan Project veteran Edward Condon, produced U-C’s “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects,” which concluded that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” But in January 1967, a full year before the report was released, Condon described the subject as “nonsense,” and added, “I’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year.” As we all know now, the Condon report most definitely wasn’t the end of U.S. military investigations into UFOs. And across the pond? “Whether secret work on UAPs continues somewhere in the British military, perhaps outsourced to another contractor,” writes Clarke, “remains an intriguing and unanswered question.” Anyhow, bottom line, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the buoyant plasmas theory was a steaming load of crap. The MoD may be populated by wishful thinkers but they’re not that stupid. devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/
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