LONDON —
Britain on Thursday released an archive of "X-Files" detailing
government UFO briefings and probes into unexplained sightings, including one
above Chelsea football club.
An image
obtained in 2009 from the UK's
National Archives shows a sketch of a UFO
drawn
by witnesses (AFP/The National
Archives (UK)/File)
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The 25
files released by The National Archives include "a lengthy briefing on UFO
policy to then prime minister Tony Blair's office" along with a job
description for the post of UFO desk officer, described as the "weirdest
job in Whitehall."
According
to an employee of the UFO desk, which closed in 2009, the perception that it
consisted of "top secret teams of specialist scientists scurrying around
the country in a real life version of the X-Files" was "total
fiction."
Instead,
daily duties included providing briefings on the Ministry of Defence's (MoD)
position on UFOs, undertaking UFO investigations, handling Freedom of
Information requests (FOIs) and managing UFOlogists (UFO "experts").
Among the
stranger investigations included one into a UFO sighting by a police officer at
Chelsea football club and another into a visit by three "men in
black" to a person who reported a UFO encounter in Lincolnshire, east
England.
According
to the files, a hotel owner in Wales once complained to her MP after a UFO
landed in a field "from which two tall silver-suited 'faceless humanoids'
emerged and began "making measurements'."
Also
included in the files are details of a 1995 briefing by one of the MoD's UFO
intelligence officers which speculated on why aliens would visit earth.
Despite having
no hard evidence for alien craft, the officer explained that any visit would
most likely be motivated by military reconnaissance, scientific development or
tourism.
In a
briefing prepared for the MoD in 1979, a UFO intelligence officer noted that no
radio tracking systems had ever picked up any alien transmissions.
The release
of the documents came after an FOI request by David Clarke, author of the book
'The UFO files' and a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
"These
records allow us to look behind the scenes of what must have been one of the
strangest jobs in Whitehall" (shorthand for Britain's civil service), said
Clarke.
"We
now have a fascinating insight into some of the extraordinary reports and
briefings which passed over the UFO Desk on a daily basis and how its officers
used logic and science in their attempts to explain 'the unexplained'," he
added.
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