From: AGETI_Giuliano-Jimmy-Marinkovicc <9a4ag@clarc.org>
Subject: [SO] Britain's UFO Secrets Revealed
Date: 4 Jun 2000 23:39:12 -0400
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  Britain's UFO Secrets Revealed
  
From: _Blair Cummins _
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 11:11:39 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 15:47:40 -0400
Subject: Britain's UFO Secrets Revealed


Greetings list -

Source: Rocky Mountain News.com

http://insidedenver.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=BRITAIN-UFOS-06-04-00&cat=AS

Britain's UFO secrets revealed
By ANTONY BARNETT
London Observer Service
June 04, 2000

LONDON - On Feb. 15, 1999, an air traffic controller in Scotland
noticed something strange on his radar screen. A bright blip on
his screen suggested there was a very large object traveling at
3,000 mph over the Scottish coastline heading southwest. The
size of the blip suggested the object was 10 miles long and two
miles wide. Two minutes later, the object disappeared from the
radar screen.

Three months earlier, British Ministry of Defense documents
record that a commercial pilot flying over the Midlands region
reported an unusual object traveling at "very high speed" with a
very bright strobe light flashing once every 20 seconds.

Although the two incidents were unrelated, both were reported to
a little-known department in the ministry known as Secretariat
(Air Staff) 2a, the secretive section which collates reports of
unidentified flying objects that cross British airspace.

The government has traditionally treated reports of UFO
sightings as highly classified and only released information to
the public after 30 years. But the parliamentary ombudsman
insisted that the Ministry of Defense hand this information to
Colin Ridyard, a research chemist from Wales who had been
seeking information relating to UFO sightings by pilots or radar
operators between July 1998 and July 1999.

Initially, the ministry refused on the ground it would be too
expensive. But after the intervention of the ombudsman, Michael
Buckley, the ministry agreed to release the information as a
one-time exercise for $120. The ministry handed two reports to
Ridyard, yet official information from the Civil Aviation

Authority suggests there had been additional sightings. During
the same period the CAA said it reported two more UFO sightings
to the ministry, neither of which it disclosed.

According to official CAA reports, in the same month that a
radar picked up an enormous object flying across Scotland, a
pilot flying over the North Sea became startled when his
aircraft became illuminated by an "incandescent" light. Three
other aircraft in the area reported seeing a ball of light
moving at high speed. Air traffic controllers reported there
were no strange aircraft in the area, but five minutes later an
operator at a weather station picked up a fast-moving object on
his radar.

The other incident which the CAA reported to the ministry
occurred in June 1999 when the pilot of a B757 flying over the
North Sea reported an unidentified military-looking aircraft
passing close by in the opposite direction. Nothing was seen on
the plane's radar or by air traffic controllers. The ministry
told the CAA there were no military aircraft known to be in that
area at the time.

Although a ministry spokeswoman would not discuss individual
sightings, she said all these events had perfectly normal
explanations.

In a letter to one of Ridyard's local Members of Parliament,
Defense Minister John Spellar said: "My department has no
interest or role with respect to UFO/flying saucer matters or to
the question of the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial
life forms - about which we remain open-minded."

But Ridyard said: "This is not about little green men, but about
freedom of information. It is clear there are many strange
incidents that happen in the British skies that are kept secret.
There may be issues of aircraft safety or natural phenomena, but
by keeping this information secret these incidents cannot be
scrutinized by the public or the scientific community."

One of the most infamous incidents relating to a UFO sighting in
Britain only came to light through the U.S. Freedom of

Information Act. This revealed that in December 1980 three
security patrolmen investigating a potential air crash near the

U.S. Air Force base in Suffolk, England, saw a strange glowing
triangular object hovering near the base which had a "pulsing
red light on top and blue lights underneath."

An official report by Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the deputy base
commander, included a description of the events and stated that
the next day three depressions were found in the forest where
the object was discovered which showed radiation readings. Later
that night three star-like objects were seen in the sky moving
"rapidly in sharp angular movements."

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Best regards,

- Blair Cummins
ufoblair@hotmail.com





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