Britain set to release secret UFO files

LONDON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The British government will soon release previously classified details regarding hundreds of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects.

The Sunday Telegraph said Sunday that this coming spring, the Defense Ministry will release to the general public 160 files about alleged UFO sightings.

Since the British government department began keeping records about the unusual reports in 1950, more than 10,000 sightings have been recorded.

With officials failing to explain 5 percent of those sightings, a growing number of Freedom of Information requests prompted the release of the classified information.

A former head of the Defense Ministry UFO project told the newspaper that no matter what an individual believes regarding UFOs, the released files should prove to be interesting reading.

"Whatever people think about UFOs, these documents are fascinating and show how the MoD has researched and investigated this mystery for nearly 60 years, without an answer," former department official Nick Pope said.

Saw my first UFO this evening! I was driving north on Loop 410 in San Antonio, near Space Center Dr at around 7:25 this evening when I saw a light similar to a normal airplane heading fast, really fast, at an angle that would have meant it crashing had it been a normal craft. If it had been heading upwards, I might have dismissed it as a pyrotechnic (we like those around Texas for New Years), but it’s motion was down and in a straight line, rather than a parabola, with no evidence of drag. FYI, this was over/around Randolph AFB, but if this was a jet, we’d have heard about the crash on the news by now. And the distance it have had to be to be a normal flight would indicate an insane rate of speed - think 6-7 Moon widths in about a second, apparently moving toward 6:30 as an angle. It vanished before it would have disappeared over the horizon line.

Pretty cool, huh?

Certainly, there are classified planes flown by the US Military, just like in the past. Much of what we “see” today, was designed over 30 yrs ago. One can only imagine what they are dreaming up now, or flying in early stages. Probably the only reason why the Air Force was interested in UFOs was to find out what people had seen, and to protect accident sites of top secret future weaponry etc.

If UFOs existed, those Martians would have been smart enough to mess up cable and satellite TV, and have us fight mercilessly amongst ourselves, then just stroll on in, take over the planet.

No way to tell, other than the light was similar to aircraft lights I’ve seen 5-10 miles out from the airport near where I live. So, it was either normal size and real close - and thus aiming straight for the ground - or it was larger but farther away and moving insanely fast to have moved that far across the sky in that short amount of time.

Perhaps, but it’s still exciting, because even if its skunkworks stuff, the kind of inertial dampening needed to accomplish this type of acceleration and braking means I might see some really cool things in my lifetime.

Dude, ....the ipod. You made it to the big time kid!

I remember being like 7 or 8, seeing a calculator, and being beyond fascinated. But, the world was really, all good and fine, when you could buy Atari, play video games in your home, no quarter needed.

Really, if you think about the difference between now and 10, 20, 30 yrs ago, the world has moved so far, and the speed of change just keeps picking up. That said, people still whine, complain and make less free time than ever to enjoy the simple things in life.

I hear ya! I was just remarking to my grandpa last night that a lot has sure changed in the last eighty-someodd years of his life - my kid got a child-proof digital camera for Christmas and can take 8,000 (!) pictures on it with its 1 Gig card.

But I’m still waiting for FTL travel. Until Apple films a commercial from around Alpha Centauri, the iPod just won’t cut it. :-)

I suspect details will be scant and of low importance, too.

But . . . I do think the French, Brazilians, now Brits . . . releasing such MUST be part of an incremental thing preparing for the

1974 planned ‘war with ET’

I think you don’t put much stock in Carol Rosin’s assertions about such . . . but the war on terror and with Iraq happened on schedule. I expect that one, to happen on schedule, too.

It fits the goal of helping scare the world into a global government.

I don’t think entirely so.

I forget when the first published mention was . . . but I believe it was before 9/11

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