MoD UFO FILES RELOADED (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by ufodigest , Wednesday, October 01, 2014, 13:21

by Nick Pope

In June 2013 the UK Ministry of Defence and the UK National Archives announced the end of a five-year project to declassify and release the UK government’s entire archive of UFO files. The media and the public were told that this was the end of the programme and that there were no more files to release. It can now be revealed that this statement was incorrect.

Now it transpires that there are another eighteen UFO files still to be released. Some of the material is over forty years old, but some is very recent. The Ministry of Defence will aim to review, redact and pass these files to the National Archives by December 2014, and it will then take the National Archives around nine months to prepare the material for release, so the last of these real-life X-Files are unlikely to be made public until late in 2015.

The files include ones from air defence specialists whose task, in relation to the MoD’s UFO investigations, was to determine whether visual sightings could be corroborated by radar evidence. There are also some files from one of the most secret parts of the MoD, the Defence Intelligence Staff. Ironically, there are even files about the release of the UFO files themselves, as staff discuss copyright and other legal issues arising from publishing material (including photographs and videos) sent in by members of the public. As with previous releases, the policy files are generally more revealing than files containing sighting reports and general correspondence from the public. Additionally, while there are some interesting cases in these yet-to-be-released files, some of the documents are duplicates of ones previously released.

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