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Thursday, 18th February 2010

Declassified Documents: National Archives (UK) Releases Six Thousand Pages of UFO-Related Docs

The documents cover the years 1994-2000. From what we can tell they are not searchable.

This background guide might be of value to those of you who will use/visit/take a look at these files. A video is also available.

Files are Free to Access for One Month Beginning Today.

Other files (from previous releases), are available for a fee.

What will you find? Here are a few examples:

* A UFO sighted by Boston and Skegness Police captured on film and then spotted by a ship's crew in the North Sea. Simultaneously, an unidentified blip was picked up on radar over Boston. A detailed investigation followed, which identified some of the lights as the planet Venus rising and the blip on the radar as 'a permanent echo' made by a tall church spire.

* A Birmingham man arrived home at 4am to find a large, illuminated blue triangle hovering over his garden. The craft 'shot off' leaving behind a 'silky-white' substance on tree tops in his garden, which he saved in a jam-jar. The file that contains the report of the incident does not reveal what happened to the substance.

* Copies of original statements taken from the UK's 'Roswell', Rendlesham Forest, and calls for an inquiry into 600 alleged sightings in Bonnybridge, Scotland, known as the 'Bonnybridge Triangle'.

* A West Lothian electrician spotted a 'Toblerone-shaped' UFO hovering over a field. A sketch of the craft is included in the report.

Source: The National Archives

See Also: UFO sightings revealed in UK archive files from 1990s (via BBC)

See Also: UFOs: the (boring) truth is out there, by Nick Pope (via The Guardian) Mr. Pope "used to run the British Government's UFO Project and is now recognised as one of the world's leading experts on the unexplained.


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