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British MOD Makes Promise

Monday January 14, 2008
Using the reason that Freedom of Information requests are taking up too much of the Ministry of Defence's time, the British MOD has promised to release even more files relating to UFO reports in the United Kingdom.

A report by the Sun Newspaper claims that the British government will release "ALL" of its 160 X-files on UFOs. These files will relate to cases going back to the late 1960's, because of continuous requests by UFO researchers and enthusiasts, claiming cases in that time period have gone unresolved.

The odd thing about this to me is that only a few years ago, they released documents relating to the Rendlesham Forest incident of 1980, and now they say there are more? Why didn't they release them at the same time? So, they were holding back some at that time, and what makes me believe that this time, they will release "ALL" of them? What do you think about this? Is it just another ploy to buy time, and keep those really juicy X-files secreted away?

Comments

January 14, 2008 at 11:21 am
(1) Bill says:

Like all government’s, they only release “What we need to know”. If they released everything at once, they might incite a mass panic. Therefore releasing bits at a time, they are conditioning us for the BIG one.

January 14, 2008 at 5:35 pm
(2) scott says:

I don’t think they’ll ever give away the best case info. I think they see it as a national security issue. I don’t think they want the Soviet Union or China to know what they’ve got. Some of the info might be useful in designing future aircraft.

January 15, 2008 at 9:44 am
(3) Joseph Capp(UFO Media Matters) says:

Dear Bill,
I was at the x-conference and spoke with Nick Pope. I asked him, do you mean to say that after this release there will be no more hidden UFO cases in the archives?
He said he believed this would be it.
He said he didn’t think their would be any smoking gun case because he was a part of the investigation and his dept knew what it was all about.
This made me very suspicious. Are you telling me they knew nothing about Roswell or other downed UFOs?
He said probably not. So I believe Nick Pope is the classic case of disinformation. I asked him directly and he said no. I asked him would he lie to me if he was under oath. He said yes.
They allowed his dept to investagted cases that were unidentified and the ones they could identify were never part of their dept. case files and under national security. I asked him this and he answered I can’t prove a negative.
But if some UFOs are craft from other worlds then the governments must have clandecent disinformation people within the UFO research comminity, so who in our community would it be?
An Ex UFO government investigator planted to help to sanitized the record? I believe this is the case with Nick Pope.

I think we should take this release as interesting but with a grain of salt. Unlike France the UK worked head over heels with the US govenernment I can’t believe they didn’t know about the smoking guns.

Joe Capp
UFO Media Matters

January 15, 2008 at 8:48 pm
(4) Bill says:

Hello Joe, I read your comments and have to agree. Anyone that is in a position that has access to any kind of “Top Secret information”, can not divulge what they know and when questioned, dance all around the topic.

What would need to happen is for a UFO to land right in the middle of a major city during broad daylight.

January 21, 2008 at 2:43 pm
(5) bert vere says:

Like yourself, Bill, i have been “into” Ufos since a boy.
I have heard the Goverments claims to have released all related documents too many times to ever believe them, till the Saucers have landed.
The disclosure we so long have waited for, will not be full till that time.
I personally believe that we common citizens could make far more progress in finding the “truth” by attempting contact ourselves in a concerted manner.
The internet is the place where we could organise to do something like that, but the UFO investigators themdselves will not get their acts together enough to try.
The sites i have approached to attempt to start a world data bank are very jealously guarding their own info for seemingly commercial reasons.
The field has too many people who are trying to get rich off the situation, rather than seek aNSWERS COLLECTIVELY…iTS THE SADDEST THING OF ALL THAT WE CANNOT CO-OPERATE WITH EACH OTHER, AND THE GOV BOYS COUNT UPON IT TO ASSIST THEIR DISINFO CAMPAIGN.

January 21, 2008 at 5:00 pm
(6) Joe B. says:

I doubt if the MOD would reveal all they know. I believe the MOD and the U.S. have decided exactly what we should be told. Maybe some truth but
I’ll bet most of what we’re told will be mostly “BS”. The governments of any nation, doesn’t tell us what we need to know, only what they want us to know.

January 21, 2008 at 5:37 pm
(7) Frank says:

Time may soon tell– let’s see first what MOD releases, and then evaluate. Perhaps more telling still will be any comments by MOD regarding their assessment of the UFO phenomenon. A totally open and candid assessment would be most refreshing, but probably not forthcoming at any time in the near future by MOD, and certainly not by the US. Eventually, should open contact finally be made, making denial by any government both futile and rediculous, there will be time enough for the public to finally evaluate and hold accountable denial and other questionable/ illegal action by the various governments.

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