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LONDON (Reuters) - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for
years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was
released in 1977, according to secret files collating re****ts by members
of the public.
The alien craft come in all shapes, sizes and colors but their occupants
are uniformly green, the Ministry of Defence files show.
The archives (at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos) are the first batch of
a four-year release programme of all the ministry's UFO files from 1978 to
the present day.
The ministry dismisses 90 percent of the re****ts as having mundane
explanations and leave 10 percent with a question mark and the assurance
they are no defence threat.
A 1983 re****t from a 78-year-old out fi****ng at midnight tells of
following aliens in green overalls on to a space****p and then being told
to go away because he was too old and decrepit for their purposes.
Two years later, a typewritten letter to the ministry tells of an alien
space****p being shot down in the river Mersey in northern England by
another spacecraft and of the author developing a warm friend****p with an
alien called Algar.
Just as Algar was about to reveal himself to the government he was killed
by other aliens, the author of the letter writes. He was still in
telepathic contact with an alien called Malcben from the planet Platone in
the Milky Way, the author added.
Written at the top of the letter is the terse comment "No reply."
The ministry has files on 11,000 sightings dating back to the 1950s. A few
of the sightings made it into the national press and all were checked out
in case they were Soviet aircraft probing Britain's defences during the
Cold War.
"Clearly some re****ts remain unexplained but we have found no evidence
that these phenomena represent a threat to national security and therefore
cannot justify devoting Defence resources to their investigation," said an
official letter in 1985.
WORKING PARTY
The term Unidentified Flying Object was coined in a U.S. Air Force re****t
three years after the description 'flying saucer' was applied to a
sighting in Wa****ngton State in June 1947.
In Britain, so worrying was the spate of re****ts that a secret Flying
Saucer Working Party was formed to check them out.
Like the U.S. Air Force, it concluded flying saucers did not exist. But
its final re****t in 1951 was still classified "secret/discreet" and given
very limited circulation.
Not all sightings can be easily dismissed as the working of overwrought or
intoxicated minds, or triggered by watching Steven Spielberg's Close
Encounters of the Third Kind.
Royal Air Force personnel, civil aviation pilots and air traffic
controllers have also re****ted sightings and radar tracks that remain
unexplained despite high-level investigation.
Among the most famous was the sighting on two occasions of unexplained
bright lights landing near a U.S. airbase in Rendlesham Forest in southern
England. Even the deputy commander of the base put his name to that 1980
re****t.
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