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More than 6,000 pages of reports describing people's experiences with unidentified flying objects between 1994 and 2000 have just been released under a three-year project between the British Ministry of Defence and National Archives.
A UFO sighted by Boston and Skegness police, in Lincolnshire, was captured on film.
The police reported the sighting to the coastguard, which in turn alerted ships in the North Sea, where a crew reported seeing more UFOs. Simultaneously, an unidentified blip was picked up on radar over Boston. Also included in the latest release is a letter from senior MoD official Ralph Noyes, in which he describes seeing a film of UFOs captured by RAF fighter pilots in 1956. Mr Noyes claims the footage was shown at a secret underground screening arranged for air defence staff at the MoD in 1970.
The files are available to download for free for a month from the National Archives website: ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Dr. David Clarke from Sheffield Hallam University, an 'expert in UFO history' offers a brief video discussing some of the incidents that are reported. He discusses four or five apparently convincing incidents and debunks each. Perhaps as a concession to fair minded reporting he mentions one case right at the end of the video that has not yet been debunked, but there is something in his description of this sighting referring to a craft 'shaped like a 'toblerone' with rounded edges' that suggests a somewhat tongue in cheek approach.
There is no voice given on the National Archives site for any argument with Dr Clarke's viewpoint let alone the chance for another 'expert' who might choose to highlight some of the as yet unexplained cases or disagree with Clarke's point of view on the sightings he mentions.
A Government institution, the National Archive, that one would expect to be a neutral source of information to the public, is thus presenting an entirely one-sided view as fact. Visitors to the site who are new to the subject will be instantly advised that the tens of thousands of sightings catalogued in the National Archive can be dismissed almost entirely as bearing no relation to any extra-terrestrial phenomena.
It is of course the norm that any mention of UFOs or alien visitation is bound to result in a public consensus of raised eyebrows and sardonic smiles. No one likes to be taken for a mug and there is an unspoken implication that anyone who gives this particular subject even the most meagre amount of house room has fallen for a myth on a par with the tooth fairy, perhaps slightly less believable.
Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media in the UK and the USA is almost without exception implacable to any serious discussion of the UFO/Alien phenomenon and uniformly places it well into the lunatic fringe. To a certain extent this is understandable as the field does tend to attract a colourful selection of enthusiasts ranging from well meaning acolytes with their heads up in the clouds to downright attention seekers.
Somehow the news never reaches them that this lunatic fringe also includes thousands of high ranking military officials, of the calibre of men such as Admiral Lord Hill Norton, Chief Of Defence staff, who affirmed the likelihood of its out of this world nature and Colonel Charles Halt, Deputy Commander of a US nuclear air base in Rendlesham England, who has witnessed and testified to the genuine nature of the phenomenon and its lack of a confirmatory explanation to this day. Gordon Cooper US astronaut is also a witness as are several US and Soviet astronauts, 7000 airline pilots, thousands of navy personnel and over a hundred air traffic controllers from all over the world who have also testified to genuine and unexplainable sightings of UFOs and USOs (Unidentified Submarine Objects). These men, with their high level of training as observers would, one would have thought, be expert enough to know and distinguish terrestrial from extra-terrestrial phenomena.
Aviation Safety in America-A Previously Neglected Factor presents over one hundred pilot and crew reports of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) which appear to have compromised aviation safety. Author Dr. Richard F. Haines, formerly NASA's Chief of the Space Human Factors Office, documents how, in stunning detail, and crew describe a range of geometric forms and lights inconsistent with known aircraft or natural phenomena. The reports include: Bizarre objects pacing aircraft at relatively near distances, sometimes disabling cockpit instruments, interrupting ground communications, or distracting the crew. Fifty-six near misses are documented; in a few cases the pilot's reaction to approaching high-speed objects caused passengers to be thrown from their seats or crew to be injured. In 1997, a Swiss Air Boeing 747 over Long Island just missed a glowing white, cylindrical object speeding toward the plane. According to a FAA Civil Aviation Security Office memorandum, Pilot Philip Bobet said that "if the object had been any lower, it might have hit the right wing."
It is a world sized disgrace that liars and cheats are made of thousands of sincere witnesses who provide much needed compelling evidence that the phenomenon is real and deeply troubling to millions of people. The arrogance and diffident attitudes towards the UFO phenomenon of a particular cartel of scientists and 'rent a sceptic' debunkers are too often the final verifications accepted by mainstream reportage. The profession by its very nature that is most wrong in things as they finally turn out are unquestionably scientists, yet we tend to believe what they say with nary a quibble. Funny isn't it. It beggars belief.
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