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Report: British Government Covered Up UFO Investigative Unit

Tuesday , September 26, 2006

LONDON — Britain's Ministry of Defense sought to prevent the public from knowing about the work of a unit that investigated reported sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, a published report said Monday.

The Guardian newspaper said that documents released under the British Freedom of Information Act to two academics showed that ministry officials had hoped to expunge information about the unit, known as DI55, from records routinely released after 30 years.

A defense ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with departmental policy, said that during the 1970s — at the height of the Cold War — officials were concerned about a Soviet invasion — not extraterrestrial activity.

The ministry "examines any UFO sighting reports it receives thoroughly to establish whether there is any evidence suggest that U.K. airspace has been compromised by unauthorized air activity," the official said.

The latest files were released following Freedom of Information Act requests by David Clarke, a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and his colleague Andy Roberts.

"These documents don't tell us anything about UFOs but they do show how desperate the [ministry] have been to conceal the interest which the intelligence services had in the subject," Clarke said.

Following a request for information on the program in 1976, the ministry's head of security opposed releasing files because they were confidential and of "very little of value to a serious scientific investigator."

"It is undesirable that even a hint of this should become public and we are currently consulting the [Air Historical Branch] on ways of expurgating the official records against the time when they qualify for disclosure," under public records laws, the official said.

That view had changed markedly by 1997 when security officials said there was no reason to deny that authorities had an interest in UFOs.

In May, the Ministry of Defense released a four-volume report on military investigations of UFOs, concluding that: there was no evidence to associate the phenomena with any particular nation, that many reports were based on natural phenomena which observers didn't understand and that less frequently sightings were associated with smoke and dust.

I'm pretty sure everybody who read this news earlier today went into it going "Really?" and left going "Oh."

i would love to comment, but im not going to. most likely i would be talking to a brick wall

i made this thread in hopes that you would comment

i 100% agree that theres definately aliens out there and love watching those shows on discovery

you see he is answering for me...except he forgot the history channel and TLC

I think the aliens started scoping us out when they saw our first nukes and rocket ships, but now they've figured out we're idiots and we basically suck, so they've stopped trying to contact us.

Yeah, they sent a couple scouts to check us out after they heard the huge A-bomb explosions and the sound barrier shattering. They thought that we were finally on our way. After taking in the middle east region though, they decided to check out thier ruins on mars again.

Yup

I don't really care for most of the ones on TLC and the Discovery Channel. Too many re-enactments, shitty special effects and questionable "specialists". I like the ones on the History channel because they focus more on the historical significance, rather than on Doris Bumblefuck from Des Moines who has been visited by shape shifting extra dimensional beings from Alpha Centauri .

This is what i believe too, go figure

they're here

Huh? Seriously?

F'reelz.

That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought you the ufo-believing type.

I have no idea, honestly. I've seen enough documentaries on tv to make me wonder.

If there are ufo's, i'm just pissed that i haven't seen one.

They probably saw The Explorers and decided we're all retards.

I think aliens exist on a different plane of consciousness like a 5th dimension. For real.

Hehe. I think you live on a different plane of consciousness.

kev all I'm saying is that sometimes I get these chills down my spine. Now it might be because I have a hole in my coat, or it might be because something is REACHING out to me across the barriers of human perception....