For those who are interested in such things, the UK National Archives have released a set of files relating to reported UFO sightings.
The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1986–1992. If you want to find out more about close encounters over Gatwick Airport, alien abductions, stray satellites – and what the UK Government thought of it all – then this is the place to be.
It was a story over on the BBC News website that pointed me towards this…
Almost 200 such files will be made available by the MoD over the next four years.
The current batch also include a US Air Force pilot’s account of being ordered to shoot down a UFO that appeared on his radar while he flew over East Anglia.
There is also an MoD request that army and navy helicopters not take photographs of crop circles, because of concerns about undermining the official line that the military did not investigate unexplained phenomena.
Enjoy!