From The Times Online (U.K.) comes this story of Brittan's agency to investigate the reports of UFOs flying over the United Kingdom. The story revolves around a Freedom of Information Act request.
> **How Britain's X-Files said that UFOs were just a waste of time**
Secret committee dismissed reports of flying saucers more than 50 years ago > > The truth is out there somewhere . . . but it has taken the Ministry of Defence 54 years to release secret papers ruling out the existence of UFOs. > > Minutes of the Government's Flying Saucer Working Party have finally been made public in answer to the ultimate request under the Freedom of Information Act -- do aliens exist? > > In the document, marked "Secret" and "Discreet", officials rejected sightings of UFOs by RAF personnel as well as a series of reports of "luminous bodies" by members of the public. > > The working party concluded: "We consider that no progress will be made by attempting further investigation of uncoordinated and subjective evidence and that positive results could only be obtained by organising throughout the country, or the world, continuous observation of the skies by a co-ordinated network of visual observers, equipped with photographic apparatus and supplemented by a network of radar stations and sound locators." > > "We should regard this, on the evidence so far available, as a singularly profitless enterprise. We accordingly recommend very strongly that no further investigation of reported mysterious aerial phenomena be undertaken, unless and until some material evidence becomes available." > > With that, the Flying Saucer Working Party dissolved itself in June 1951, never to meet again. > But of course: >UFO sightings have continued unabated over Britain as shown by the recent release of reams of reports from members of the public. The latest MoD document shows that 91 sightings were recorded last year in places as far afield as Peterborough in Cambridgeshire ("four dull red lights"), Paignton in Devon ("�long single black cylinder") and Honley in West Yorkshire ("looked like a jellyfish flying in the sky"). > >Last September was a busy month for UFOs, with a "silver disc" in Glossop, Derbyshire; a "bright light at first then looked like a box kite" in Barry, South Wales; "wo silvery objects pulling apart and moving together"in Holywell, Flintshire; and "great bright light like a big ball of fire"over Iwerne Minster in Somerset. > >The area with the most frequent mysterious activity has been West Kilbride, on the southwest coast of Scotland. The MoD received a dozen reports during the year of increasingly dramatic visitations, from "one sphere" on April 2, "five bright spheres" on May 30 to "at least 25 yellow spheres flying in groups of five" on November 26. > A lot of the UFO reports and records are hoaxes, a lot of them are errors of perception and some of them are military aircraft doing what they do best. Still, some of the reports are very interesting -- multiple witnesses with the objects doing things that do not follow the laws of Newtonian Mechanics. Fun stuff to think about...
Secret committee dismissed reports of flying saucers more than 50 years ago > > The truth is out there somewhere . . . but it has taken the Ministry of Defence 54 years to release secret papers ruling out the existence of UFOs. > > Minutes of the Government's Flying Saucer Working Party have finally been made public in answer to the ultimate request under the Freedom of Information Act -- do aliens exist? > > In the document, marked "Secret" and "Discreet", officials rejected sightings of UFOs by RAF personnel as well as a series of reports of "luminous bodies" by members of the public. > > The working party concluded: "We consider that no progress will be made by attempting further investigation of uncoordinated and subjective evidence and that positive results could only be obtained by organising throughout the country, or the world, continuous observation of the skies by a co-ordinated network of visual observers, equipped with photographic apparatus and supplemented by a network of radar stations and sound locators." > > "We should regard this, on the evidence so far available, as a singularly profitless enterprise. We accordingly recommend very strongly that no further investigation of reported mysterious aerial phenomena be undertaken, unless and until some material evidence becomes available." > > With that, the Flying Saucer Working Party dissolved itself in June 1951, never to meet again. > But of course: >UFO sightings have continued unabated over Britain as shown by the recent release of reams of reports from members of the public. The latest MoD document shows that 91 sightings were recorded last year in places as far afield as Peterborough in Cambridgeshire ("four dull red lights"), Paignton in Devon ("�long single black cylinder") and Honley in West Yorkshire ("looked like a jellyfish flying in the sky"). > >Last September was a busy month for UFOs, with a "silver disc" in Glossop, Derbyshire; a "bright light at first then looked like a box kite" in Barry, South Wales; "wo silvery objects pulling apart and moving together"in Holywell, Flintshire; and "great bright light like a big ball of fire"over Iwerne Minster in Somerset. > >The area with the most frequent mysterious activity has been West Kilbride, on the southwest coast of Scotland. The MoD received a dozen reports during the year of increasingly dramatic visitations, from "one sphere" on April 2, "five bright spheres" on May 30 to "at least 25 yellow spheres flying in groups of five" on November 26. > A lot of the UFO reports and records are hoaxes, a lot of them are errors of perception and some of them are military aircraft doing what they do best. Still, some of the reports are very interesting -- multiple witnesses with the objects doing things that do not follow the laws of Newtonian Mechanics. Fun stuff to think about...
Dear Hank, i for one enjoyed your breif and incredible encounter with the u.f.o., thanks for your persistance.
this is going to sound crazy but read this with an open mind. to begin i will say ive seen ufo's twice, the first time was in the early 1980's, i was driving my truck at about 8 pm, i was traveling towards the san gabriel mountains.just outside of los angeles in calif. when out of the sky fell a white circular light, it seemed ''out of control'' looking like a ball in a pin ball machine, going from left to right, right to left, up and down and in all directions in between in lasted for about 15 seconds, i pulled to the side of the road and this circular light went straight up and disapeared, when i got back in my truck there was a circular light that appeared within a few feet from my truck, except this time it was very small maybe only a centameter or so, it was moving as if it was floating down ward, i got out of my truck and tried to let it fall into my hand but it seemed it just kept avoiding my hand like when two magnits are both negative they seem to push off each other, well i was memorized to say the least, i kept watching it and it landed on the grass, when it hit the grass the light turnrd into some kind of liquid light, it seemed it was a combination of water and maybe mercury or liquid silver, and it just stayed stationary in a circular form at the tip of a blade of grass. i went to touch it but when i was just to place my finger on it i started getting very cold at the same time the object started changing form again, it was now about 5 feet tall and about 2 feet wide,it looked like a ''mirage'' you know what you see in the desert from the heat rising up off the ground where you view is waves of distorted air, it seemed to now cover me and i coulden't move not a muscle when i tried the effect was more intence,then i saw something alive coming at me it was a light in the shape of centapede like bug, i felt it was tring to get me to relax and to just be calm, it was like trying to tell me something thats when i closed my eyes and felt it on my forehead starting to communicate with me, i dont remember much except these three things , 1)QUANTUM, 2)JENNY RENDAL and 3)PAUL McCARTNEY, at the time it made perfect sence, i remember thinking '' yes yes yes'' but when you ask me today what this means the only thing i can think of is ''im nuts'' after all out of the three things i remember the only one im familiar with is paul mccartney, heck i dont know maybe paul and jenny are going to have a baby and its name will be quantum and he will be the messiah but regardless how crazy this sounds i will swear on my eyes now that ufo's are out there and they are very inteligent. who ever can figure the meaning of jen ren, sir paul and quatum please tell me . thank you
The British government has a "Flying Saucer Work Party"? They can afford to have a bunch of people sitting around discussing UFOs while collecting government salaries and pensions?
Where do I sign up?