Inexplicable testimonies and events released to the public.
by Chris Iaquinta
October 20, 2008 - Your typical United States based UFO close-encounter story usually involves the same setting and cast of characters. An open plain of backwoods country populated with cows and your average buck-toothed, slack jawed farmer. Not exactly prime writing material for an episode of X-Files. In the UK however, some of the best UFO sightings ever recorded are being released for the first time by the Ministry of Defense, in a effort to give the public a chance to view the findings for themselves and give their own interpretation of the information.
The documents, which are available online and can be downloaded directly from the National Archives website, cover the span of the last three decades and feature accounts of the public witnessing strange lights and unexplained objects in the sky, including reports from police officers and the armed forces.
The released files are a part of a set of almost 200 that are to be made available over the next four years, with the current documents downloadable for free for the first month.
Accounts include a 78-year-old man who claims that he met an alien beside the Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1983. After boarding the alien's craft, the man was quizzed by the aliens on his age, and was then told that he was free to leave because, "You are too old and too infirm for our purpose." Who knew that alien's have a code of standards when it comes to abduction? I suppose its better to be safe than sorry, you never know who your picking up.
Another report includes the first hand account of a US Air Force pilot that was ordered to shoot down a UFO that appeared on radar during a flight over East Anglia. As of press time, no confirmation was given as to whether or not that Air Force pilot was Will Smith or Harry Connick Jr.
The files aren't limited to just witnessing UFO's either, the reports also contain letters from people offering up the fact that they themselves are aliens, including a woman who claimed to be from the Sirius system (Undoubtedly an avid Howard Stern fan), who says her craft, which also contained two "Spectrans" with "Mr. Spock ears", crashed during World War II in Britain.
The released documents are being praised from within' the UFO community. Dr. David Clarke, a UFO expert from Sheffield Hallam University, thinks that the files can shed new light on these relatively unknown sittings, but will do little to silence conspiracy theories on aliens. On the BBC Radio 4 Today program, he explained: "I doubt the disclosure of these files will convince those who believe there is an official cover-up. Inevitably, some have already dismissed this release as a whitewash. For them the 'truth' still remains out there, hidden no doubt in more above top secret files hidden somewhere else."
Did he just say the truth is out there? X-Files material indeed.For more information on the released UFO files, you can visit the National Archives website.
http://www. nationalarchives. gov. uk/
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