A mock UFO
with a sign reading "Smile, you are being abducted" is
pictured north
of Brasilia, in December last year (AFP/File, Evaristo Sa)
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LONDON —
The British government finally shut down a special unit investigating UFO
sightings after more than 50 years as it was a drain on resources and not a
single report ever revealed " a potential threat to the United
Kingdom," newly released government files showed Friday.
The
Ministry of Defence (MoD) closed a hotline and an email address to which
sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) could be reported in 2009,
saying at the time that "no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential
threat to the United Kingdom".
The newly
released files show that civil servant Carl Mantell briefed then defence
minister, Bob Ainsworth, that the desk was "consuming increasing
resource".
"The
level of resources diverted to this task is increasing in response to a recent
upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff from more valuable
defence-related activities," he remarked.
An MoD
employee whose job was to investigate UFO reports was moved to another post.
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