Military Top Brass Reveals Britain's X-Files
For decades, they were dismissed as freak weather patterns or planes that were off course, but now it has been revealed that the truth really was out there - in secret government files.
Newly declassified Ministry of Defence documents list unexplained incidents over Britain that were labelled as being UFOs.
And evidence is provided by RAF officers, a British Airways pilot and a police superintendent filing reports – witnesses who cannot easily be dismissed as cranks.
Britain's X-Files, as the documents are nicknamed, have been published to comply with the Freedom of Information Act that came into force on January 1.
Among the thousands of sightings is the one reported by Flight Lieutenant AM Wood and two non-commissioned officers at RAF Boulmer in Northumberland in July 1977.
They saw "bright objects hanging over the sea" around three miles off the coast at around 5,000ft. "The objects separated," says the report. "Then one went west of the other. As it manoeuvred it changed shape to become body-shaped with projections like arms and legs."
Men at the RAF station watched the objects for an hour and 40 minutes before they disappeared. The report describes Wood as "sober and reliable" and says the objects were also picked up by military radar.
Earlier that year, on April 8, Superintendent Cooper of West Yorkshire police reported seeing a UFO in the form of a "bright, silver light" while on duty in a patrol car.
"At first, I thought it was a bright star," he said."It was low in the sky, a long distance away. Then I thought that this light was moving." He continued to watch it as it moved over a series of rooftops before it "suddenly vanished".
In July 1976, the captain of a British Airways Tri-Star on a return flight from Portugal told air traffic controllers of "four objects - two round brilliant white, two cigar shaped" 18 miles north of Faro.
Fighter planes were scrambled from Lisbon as a precaution and shortly afterwards crews of two other airliners reported seeing the same lights.
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For decades, they were dismissed as freak weather patterns or planes that were off course, but now it has been revealed that the truth really was out there - in secret government files.
Newly declassified Ministry of Defence documents list unexplained incidents over Britain that were labelled as being UFOs.
And evidence is provided by RAF officers, a British Airways pilot and a police superintendent filing reports – witnesses who cannot easily be dismissed as cranks.
Britain's X-Files, as the documents are nicknamed, have been published to comply with the Freedom of Information Act that came into force on January 1.
Among the thousands of sightings is the one reported by Flight Lieutenant AM Wood and two non-commissioned officers at RAF Boulmer in Northumberland in July 1977.
They saw "bright objects hanging over the sea" around three miles off the coast at around 5,000ft. "The objects separated," says the report. "Then one went west of the other. As it manoeuvred it changed shape to become body-shaped with projections like arms and legs."
Men at the RAF station watched the objects for an hour and 40 minutes before they disappeared. The report describes Wood as "sober and reliable" and says the objects were also picked up by military radar.
Earlier that year, on April 8, Superintendent Cooper of West Yorkshire police reported seeing a UFO in the form of a "bright, silver light" while on duty in a patrol car.
"At first, I thought it was a bright star," he said."It was low in the sky, a long distance away. Then I thought that this light was moving." He continued to watch it as it moved over a series of rooftops before it "suddenly vanished".
In July 1976, the captain of a British Airways Tri-Star on a return flight from Portugal told air traffic controllers of "four objects - two round brilliant white, two cigar shaped" 18 miles north of Faro.
Fighter planes were scrambled from Lisbon as a precaution and shortly afterwards crews of two other airliners reported seeing the same lights.
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