- With effect from December 1, 2009, the UK Ministry of
Defense terminated its UFO project, ending over 50 years of research and
investigation into the phenomenon.
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- The news was slipped out in a way designed not to attract
attention, by making an amendment to an existing document in the Freedom
of Information section of the MoD website, entitled "How to report
a UFO sighting". The announcement states that "in over fifty
years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to
the United Kingdom" and goes on to say that "MoD will no longer
respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them":
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- http://tinyurl.com/btezh3
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- Having worked on the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 I
am sorry to see MoD disengage in this way. I believe that where evidence
suggests that UK airspace has been penetrated by an unidentified object,
this must automatically be of defense interest and should be investigated
properly. Indeed, I am sure that as is almost certainly the case in the
US, sightings from pilots and uncorrelated targets tracked on radar will
continue to be looked at by someone, albeit outside of a formally constituted
UFO project.
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- From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around
12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects
and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.
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- Best wishes,
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- Nick Pope
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- http://www.nickpope.net
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