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...Files fans take note: The truth may be out there, online, starting today. This week Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) begins releasing all its files about UFOs - in ministry parlance, "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" - on a government website, free for download...
...MoD posts brief notes of reported UFO sightings already. But these newly released files will go back further in time, to the 1970s, and will contain everything: not just brief summaries of what appeared when, the ministry says, but the full correspondence between witnesses and the government for every single sighting, and any notes about government follow...
...Most of the material is obviously misidentification of fairly ordinary objects: aircraft lights, meteorites, the planet Venus," says Nick Pope, a former MoD employee who, as head of the ministry's UFO program for three years in the early 1990s, is well acquainted with these early files. But the longer Pope spent studying the data, the more he came to believe that some UFO sightings really can't be explained by terrestrial activity - a conclusion that earned him a reputation as "Britain's Fox Mulder." "You've got to really drill down into it to get the good stuff...
...part, the MoD has said in a statement it does not consider questions about life on other planets; it tracks the sightings "solely to establish whether U.K. airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorized military activity." So why release the files now? A spokeswoman says the ministry gets as many as 150 or 200 requests for the files each year, and under Britain's Freedom of Information Act is obliged to answer almost all of them. "We have other priorities," she says. "The most resourceful thing to do is just get [these files] into the public domain...
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