Posted on 05/07/2006 12:25:53 PM PDT by oxcart
UFO study finds no sign of aliens Mark Simpson BBC News
The 400-page report was kept secret for six years Alleged UFO sightings A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms. In spite of the secrecy surrounding the UFO study, it seems citizens of planet Earth have little to worry about.
The report, which was completed in 2000 and stamped "Secret: UK Eyes Only", has been made public for the first time.
Only a small number of copies were produced and the identity of the man who wrote it has been protected.
His findings were only made public thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, after a request by Sheffield Hallam University academic Dr David Clarke.
The four-year study - entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK - tackles the long-running question by UFO-spotters: "Is anyone out there?"
The answer, it seems, is "no".
HAVE YOUR SAY Never in thirty years of working out of doors at all hours have I seen anything that cannot be explained by a few seconds reasoned thought Barry P, Havant, UK
The 400-page report puts it like this: "No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces."
It adds: "There is no evidence that 'solid' objects exist which could cause a collision hazard."
So if there are no such things as little green men in spaceships or flying saucers, why have so many people reported seeing them?
Well, here is the science bit.
"Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects and, possibly some other less-known effects are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena," concludes the report.
"Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
"They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make them unique to the majority of observers."
People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced."
There are, of course, other causes of UFOs - aeroplanes with particularly bright lights, stray odd-shaped balloons and strange flocks of birds, to name but a few.
Yet, it will be difficult to convince everyone that there is a rational explanation for all mysterious movements in the sky.
Some UFO-spotters believe governments will always cover up the truth about UFOs, because they are afraid of admitting that there is something beyond their control.
It is not clear how much time and effort the MoD has spent looking at the skies in recent years, but it appears there are no plans for an in-depth UFO report like the one written in 2000.
A MoD spokesperson said: "Both this study and the original "Flying Saucer Working Party" [already in public domain in the national Archives] concluded that there is insufficient evidence to indicate the presence of any genuine unidentified aerial phenomena.
"It is unlikely that we would carry out any future studies unless such evidence were to emerge."
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/4981720.stm
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What did Jimmy Carter say about this?
They must not have gone to San Francisco
LOL
No, aliens? We've got at least 12 million of them!
(((PING)))
Heck we saw millions of aliens marching on our streets and they were invaders.
All they need to do to confirm space aliens is to go to Congress.
I'm a skeptic, but this does sound cheesy:
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Some UFO-spotters believe governments will always cover up the truth about UFOs, because they are afraid of admitting that there is something beyond their control."
Don't be absurd. They do control everything.
So this means that I can remove by tin-foil hat?
"UFO study finds no sign of aliens"
Well, for goodness sakes ... was it on autopilot or something? What is the point, then? That's what I want to know, what's the point?
crop circles ?
They must not have been on the Mexican border. There are millions of aliens there.
Cheesy but true. Researchers at Laurentian University in Sudbury exposed test subjects to the kind of EM that is created by seismic activity. The tests consisted of leaving them alone in a room and exposing them to EM; it was a relaxed setting and most of them slept through it. Nearly all of them reported, in vivid detail, being abducted by aliens and subjected to gruesome medical procedures.
"UFO study finds no sign of aliens"
Of course, that's what the aliens WANT you to believe. They no doubt wrote the report.
Send em to California....we have 5-6 million of em.
Shoulda removed it ages ago. A radio station here interviewed an expert who reported that the CIA has developed scanning beams that can penetrate aluminum.
So how and why do these "plasma fields", occur in one's bedroom in the middle of the night or out in some hay-field in Texas.
Sorry....don't buy the explanation!
Art Bell is deeply saddened.
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