British Ministry of Defense To Reveal Classified UFO Documents

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. On the other hand, human brains are hard-wired for pattern recognition. So here’s the latest.

The British media is buzzing this week over a Ministry of Defence decision to dump more classified UFO files into the public domain. Some of the details were described by The Observer on Sunday and The Telegraph today.

Sometime this spring, the Brits will begin reading about a shadowy and long-denied MoD intelligence unit called DI55, whose UFO caseload goes back for decades. Details of those investigations are scheduled for a phased release over the next three years, and public interest is likely to be massive. Hoping to avoid the sort of systems crash that occurred when the French military recently released the results of its own UFO studies online, British authorities are supposedly reconfiguring their computer protocols to accommodate the anticipated traffic jam.

In a preview of things to come, The Observer reports on a 1977 incident in which a UFO pursued a Vulcan bomber over the Atlantic. All five crewmen observed the thing, and the navigator “recorded interference on his radar screen from the direction of the UFO which continued for 45 minutes as the plane headed back to Britain.” RAF officials confirmed the event by studying camera film of the radar.

“Despite the Vulcan sighting being investigated by DI55,” states The Observer, “no details remain in the file indicating what they found or what became of the radar film.”

The absence of such key data isn’t likely to end the debate over the MoD’s candor in the U.K. But maybe this maneuver isn’t intended solely for domestic consumption. Consider the timing, coming less than six months into the new administration of Gordon Brown. The Observer noted the decision to declassify was made by the Directorate of Airspace Policy in December, a month after a panel of international pilots and aviation authorities convened in Washington to urge the U.S. to resume its public UFO investigation.

The key word is public, because Air Force manuals have been itemizing procedures for pilots to report UFOs long after the public relations ploy known as Project Blue Book ended in 1969. So: Are the Brits trying to give the Pentagon an opening? “Show us yours; we’ll show you ours”? Hm.

“Change” may be the coin of the realm in the latest American election cycle, but as the last seven years have shown, we can’t always go it alone. Sometimes, we need a little help from our friends.