From: Stig Agermose <trippyplanet.nul>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:43:13 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: UFOs Are Out There Say Real X-Files


Source: Evening Standard - London, UK

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16353133

02-03-05

UFOs Are Out There Say Real X-Files

By Mark Prigg
Science Correspondent
Evening Standard


Britain's secret X-files have revealed a flurry of UFO activity
in the last two weeks, it was revealed today.

The Ministry of Defence logs, released under the Freedom of
Information Act, include a sighting of "strange lights in the
sky" two weeks ago in Whitstable. On the same night a "flying
saucer" was spotted over Stoke on Trent, and also in
Staffordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Other sightings give more detail. A report from Devizes in
Wiltshire on 24 September last year records an object that
"looked liked a big ball of fire coming down from the sky with a
tail and sparks coming off the end of it".

Another, from Somerset the week before, states: "The object
looked like a great bright light and was really intense, like a
ball of fire coming down from the sky, rapidly moving towards
the ground."

Even MoD chiefs admit they are flummoxed by some sightings. A
report from Surrey last May describes a UFO as having "grooves
and windows" but no room for humans. The MoD inspector notes
that the "witness had seen the object so clearly".

The files show that last year the MoD's UFO unit received 88
reports from military staff and members of the public worried
about unexplained objects in our skies. The most common colours
for a UFO are yellow, orange or black.

A Ministry of Defence document released with the files reveals
that the MoD "remains totally open-minded" as to "the question
of the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial lifeforms".
The Ministry said the documents are a fraction of the thousands
of records of alleged alien visits.

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