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Originally posted by JAK
The BBC has got hold of a previously confidential Ministry of Defence report that took place in the late 1990's ending on 2000.
UFO study finds no sign of aliens
A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms.
In spite of the secrecy surrounding the UFO study, it seems citizens of planet Earth have little to worry about.
The report, which was completed in 2000 and stamped "Secret: UK Eyes Only", has been made public for the first time.
(Continued at source)
Sheffield Hallam University academic Dr David Clarke got the four year, 400 page report titled "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK" through the the Freedom of Information Act.
A MoD spokesperson said: "Both this study and the original "Flying Saucer Working Party" [already in public domain in the national Archives] concluded that there is insufficient evidence to indicate the presence of any genuine unidentified aerial phenomena.
"It is unlikely that we would carry out any future studies unless such evidence were to emerge."
Jak
I find these sudden 'news' events on UFOs in England interesting and certainly different that the BBC website has in two days published two articles on the UFO matter.
Originally posted by Ectoterrestrial
Goverments lie to us about the reason for a war, then the public catches on, then the public believes this MOD report.
How gullible are we? Its like a child being beaten by his daddy. He still believes his daddy has emotional wisdom and trusts his authority.
When are we going to grow up as a public?
[edit on 9-5-2006 by Ectoterrestrial]
Originally posted by ferretmaster
Originally posted by Ectoterrestrial
Goverments lie to us about the reason for a war, then the public catches on, then the public believes this MOD report.
How gullible are we? Its like a child being beaten by his daddy. He still believes his daddy has emotional wisdom and trusts his authority.
When are we going to grow up as a public?
[edit on 9-5-2006 by Ectoterrestrial]
never?
Dr Ridyard had been seeking information relating to UFO sightings by pilots or radar operators between July 1998 and July 1999. Initially the MoD refused on the ground it would be too expensive. But after the intervention of the ombudsman, Michael Buckley, the MoD agreed to release the information as a one-off exercise for £75. The Ministry handed two reports to Ridyard, yet official information from the Civil Aviation Authority suggests there had been additional sightings. During the same period the CAA said it reported two more UFO sightings to the MoD, neither of which the Ministry disclosed.
According to official CAA reports, in the same month that a radar picked up an enormous object flying across Scotland, a pilot flying over the North Sea became startled when his aircraft became illuminated by an 'incandescent' light. Three other aircraft in the area reported seeing a ball of light moving at high speed. Air traffic controllers reported there were no strange aircraft in the area, but five minutes later an operator at a weather station picked up a fast-moving object..
UFO believers have claimed that the cover-up of UFO data was imposed to hide the fact that the American and British Governments possessed hard, conclusive evidence of ET-piloted craft. Some of the more wild rumours suggested the Americans had captured a saucer that crashed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The Flying Saucer Working Party report lays that myth to rest. It reveals how British Intelligence was informed by a member of the USAF investigation team that "the…sensational report of the discovery of a crashed 'flying saucer' full of the remains of very small beings, was ultimately admitted by its author to have been a complete fabrication."
If the Americans did recover a crashed UFO at Roswell, then clearly even their closest allies did not have sufficient "need to know." Furthermore, the British shared the American view that 'peaks' in UFO sightings closely followed periods of media publicity "indicating the extent to which sightings may be psychological in origin" or were the product of Cold War fears.
As for the possibility of Extraterrestrial visitors, the study was not optimistic. "When the only material available is a mass of purely subjective evidence," the report concluded, "it is impossible to give anything like scientific proof that the phenomena observed are, or are not, caused by something entirely novel, such as aircraft of extraterrestrial origin, developed by beings unknown to us on lines more advanced than anything we have thought of."[/url]