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British Release UFO Files

Wednesday May 14, 2008
The British government is releasing a ton of UFO files to the general public. If this is something that may be of interest to you, get with it, because they are only free for the first month, afterward, there will be a fee. The files are all in the .pdf format, and are quite content heavy, with at least a couple of them weighing in at over 50 megabytes.

You can find all of the information at British Government Releases UFO Files. The files cover British Ministry of Defence UFO reports from the years of 1978-2002. If you know much about the British history of UFOs, this time span will cover a number of remarkable cases, including the Rendlesham Forest case, Britain's most well-known UFO case file. Check it out, and I hope you have a fast Internet connection. We will be talking more about the files later, as I have time to delve into some of them. I wonder how much of the content is blacked out. There is a very informative audio by Dr. David Clarke, and a video from Nick Pope about the release of the files.

Comments

May 14, 2008 at 5:28 pm
(1) Art Bosman says:

Britisch file will not open .
Art

May 14, 2008 at 7:42 pm
(2) scott says:

here’s a nice sighting from this report

No one, they knew, would believe their claim an unidentified flying object landed at the airport they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed. Yet that’s what they reported happened at 4 p.m. on April 19, 1984.

The incident is one of hundreds of reported sightings contained in more than 1,000 pages of formerly secret UFO documents being released Wednesday by Britain’s National Archives. It is one of the few that was never explained.

The air traffic controllers’ “Report of Unusual Aerial Phenomenon” was filed from an unspecified small airport near the eastern coast of England.

The men, each with more than eight years on the job, described how they were helping guide a small plane to a 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,” their report said. “SATCO (code name 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.”
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.
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May 15, 2008 at 1:22 am
(3) Steve says:

Why doesn’t the U.S. do the same? I don’t understand what purpose the “deep secret” approach accomplishes. The U.S. seems to bite its tongue like there’s something to hide or be ashamed of. Anyways, judging by how reserved UFO behavior has always been, disclosure of our governments’ records does not imply disclosure from the extraterrestrials themselves.

May 17, 2008 at 7:50 pm
(4) Chance Metz says:

Prehaps they hae but not to everyone yet. only to thsoe who bleive in ths ind of thing and won’t te someone who would let fear cause them to react in a violet way.

May 19, 2008 at 4:47 pm
(5) Sam B says:

I’m excited to see the Brits opening up about UFO’s. The Bentwaters case in particular is one that I am certain has much more to it than we have been told so far.

As a former air traffic controller, I can tell you that I have absolute confidence in the report from the controllers mentioned above. If you have traffic inbound for one runway and suddenly you see a light come out of nowhere, heading for a different runway - that raises the pucker factor significantly. You can be that the UFO had their undivided attention, and that what they described is exactly what they saw. I do find it amusing that the UFO made a touch-and-go - maybe it was messing with the controllers, othere was a student pilot ET on board! ;-)

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