Britain releases batch of files on UFO sightings

Nick Pope said (according to the Sun *cough*) that 95% of UFOs are explainable.

@ the pessimists, do you seriously think it's possible for full disclosure to happen within a couple of days??
That would cause the sort of panic that no one wants!
One step at a time, slowly but surely.
This was a huge step in disclosure, many have had to start considering the possibility that perhaps, just maybe...
You also have to remember, they are backtracking on decades of "only nutters believe in UFO's"! That is going to take a while!

Samuel

Originally posted by Aldolas

You also have to remember, they are backtracking on decades of "only nutters believe in UFO's"! That is going to take a while!

Samuel

That is such a great point. I truly believe that any sort of reception of this type of thought is good, because we all know that this could never happen overnight. Can you imagine the mass suicides alone?

It is just amazing the unorganized and unprofessinal state of these documents. I would expect the minestry of Defence to have better records and procedures than are displayed here.

In addition to being mostly letters of request for information, every single response has the tag line : We are only interested in the defence significance of the incident. if a foreing goverment craft violated our airspace. We do not investigate the scientific nature of the reports.

Yet they also state that most can be explained as sattelite debris returning to earth, ball lightning, unusual cloud formations, and weather ballons.

So if you have explained most of them, why do none of these reports have any explanations? Why is this just what was reported? If you satisfied yourself that it was not of defence significance then how were you convinced and why is that not released with the individual reports?

Okay, so if you don't investigate them except for defence purposes, wouldn't that include what the object that violated your air space was, and where it came from? You only want to know if it is a foreign aircraft violating your airspace?

So Aliens violating UK airspace is not a threat to the defense of the country?

At the very least this should allow some follow up. The airport landing for instance will allow for a freedom of information act request for the video at the airport. They can not deny it if they already released the report. There has to be camera coverage at the airport.

This is complete dis-information and an effort to slow down the FOI requests by just telling everyone to go to this website where it is free. This so far is a load of crap. I hope we can get better than this soon.