Posted on 06/27/2011 3:58:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Australia's military has lost its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.
After a two-month search in response to a newspaper Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which forces government officials to release documents of public interest, Australia's Department of Defence had been unable to locate the files, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
"The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost," the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, told the paper. Defence officials could not be contacted by Reuters.
The only file Defence had been able to locate was a folder called: "Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera," a military weapons testing range in the center of Australia's vast outback, Carpenter said.
All other files had been lost or destroyed, which the Herald said could fuel conspiracy theories about their disappearance.
The single remaining file detailed a sketchy series of sightings from around the country and overseas, including people living in towns near Woomera, in South Australia state.
X Files, named after a popular U.S. television science fiction program, refer to supposed government records detailing paranormal mysteries, usually involving fictitious alien species.
Australia's military had decided to stop taking UFO sighting reports in late 2000, the Herald said, asking members of the public to report incidents to police instead.
Wikileaks could probably find them.
ping
Obviously, stolen by aliens!
Well, isn’t that special.
The dog ate their homework.
Little green men snuck in and took them.
THX THX.
I think the list has been pinged on this on another thread.
Abducted...oh the irony....
Sometimes I think that Australia has been under the firm control of the globalist shadow government folks for a very long time. . . . more even than the USA.
Slick way to avoid having to show what they’ve got. Shouldn’t there be some punishment for malfeasance in office? Is this IT?! Just......WE LOST 50 years worth of records, and everyone says WHATEVER, and they all roll over and go back to sleep? Did the Australian investigative media graduate from US colleges? It appears so!
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