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From: ZS2ABF@ZS0ELD.ELD.ZAF.AF
To : UFO@WW
Hi to group members and all interested readers,
Here is more information. The British Government released UFO information last
year. Read about it below.
I have seen copies of some American government releases and many paragraphs
have been blacked out ? (why)
14 May 2008
BRITAIN-CURIOSITY-SCIENCE
LONDON May 2008
"IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE?" - BRITAIN REVEALS UFO SECRETS
They used to be stamped "Secret: For British Eyes Only" - but on
Wednesday files about the sighting of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in
the
skies over Britain were made public for the first time. The release of the
previously classified documents followed pressure from UFO enthusiasts who
insisted that Britain's new Freedom of Information Act required "open and
transparent government."
On Wednesday, an initial eight files were published by the National
Archives in Kew, near London, with a further 200 in the pipeline.
The documents, sure to rekindle the interest of sceptics and
believers alike, will be available to download for free for the first month.
(http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
In a pre-emptive strike to curtail "irrational" expectations, the
Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement that the information, collected
between 1978 to 1987, contained no proof of alien life forms.
It also pointed out that the number of reports doubled after the
release in 1977 of Steven Spielberg's science-fiction film Close Encounters of
the Third Kind.
Most of the UFO sightings were probably mis-identifications of
aircraft lights and meteors, but some are more difficult to explain, and
include UFOs seen by police officers and pilots, and cases where UFOs have
been tracked on radar, UFO specialist Nick Pope said.
However, it was immediately clear Wednesday that the government would
not be able to convince doubters that there is an entirely rational
explanation for all mysterious movements in the sky.
Many UFO spotters believe that governments are "covering up the
truth" because they fear to admit to something that is "beyond their control."
Accounts published on the website include the sighting of strange lights and
unexplained objects spotted by the public, the armed forces and police
officers.
They reveal, among many others, the experience of 78-year-old Alfred
Burtoo, who said he met two men in green overalls on a walk along a canal in
Hampshire, southern Britain, in 1983, who invited them for a trip in their
craft.
But when quizzed about his age, the aliens told him: "You can go.
You are too old and too infirm for our purpose." Another man reported
his "physical and psychic contact" with green aliens since he was a child, and
related that one of the aliens, codenamed Elgar, was later killed by "another
race of beings" as he was about to make contact with the British government.
A further document reveals how, in 1982, a group of customers and
staff at a pub in Tunbridge Wells, in the southern county of Kent, reported
seeing an unknown object with green and red flashing lights heading in the
direction of London's Gatwick airport.
In addition to some more easily-explained sightings, fuelled by the
power of suggestion, or perhaps a drink too many, the files also contain
reports compiled by official sources.
In December, 1980, the United States Air Force submitted a report
from two officers who saw "unusual lights outside the back gate" of a Royal
Air Force (RAF) base in Suffolk, south-east England.
The incident, explained with a number of drawings, has been dubbed
"Britain's Roswell" after the supposed contact made with aliens at Roswell, in
the US state of New Mexico, in 1947.
A report by Scotland Yard officers called out to a house in north
London in 1984 said the policemen "spent an hour observing the object in the
sky, which moved erratically from side to side, up and down and to and fro,
not venturing far from the original position". (Editor: Could have been
Lenticular clouds or Moon Dogs)
One of the men, who saw the object through binoculars, described it
as "circular in the middle with what appeared to be a dome on top and
underneath" with different coloured lights." According to the files,
pedestrians on London's Waterloo Bridge were stopped in their tracks
gazing at what they believed was a flying saucer high above the Thames.
"This is a very interesting illustration that, actually, UFOs are
seen in built-up areas. People have this idea that they're seen in desolate,
rural places," said Pope.
And even the MoD, which said it was mainly interested in checking
that UFOS "were not in fact signs of earthly covert spying missions by other
countries," admitted that the whole truth may never be known.
"The Ministry of Defense does not deny that there are strange things
to see in the sky. It certainly has no evidence that alien spacecraft have
landed on this planet," it said.
Believe it or believe it not !
Regards, Peter ZS2ABF
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