The Real 'X Files' - MoD Classified U.F.O. Documents Released 3rd March 2011

The Real 'X Files' - MoD Classified U.F.O. Documents Released 3rd March 2011

Britain has just released more of its massive collection of X-Files -- over 8,000 pages of documents detailing UFO investigations, eyewitness testimony and military concerns about possible extraterrestrial visitors.
The files are the largest disclosure of declassified documents released to date online by the National Archives and can be downloaded at no cost for the next month.
The documents include stories, drawings, letters, a House of Lords UFO debate, details about a flying saucer hoax that was thought to be an alien invasion of the U.K. and fascinating facts about how 1978 almost became the "year of the UFO."
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A doughnut-shaped phenomenon was photographed around 2004 by a retired RAF officer and sent to his old bosses tasked with investigating UFOs. Thousands of close-encounter UFO X-Files were released March 3 by the National Archives.
"These documents show absolutely beyond a doubt that over many, many years, Ministry of Defense officials, government ministers and defense intelligence staff have treated the UFO issue seriously," Nick Pope told AOL News.
Pope headed up the British government's UFO project, analyzing classified files at the Ministry of Defense from 1991 to 1993.
"The Ministry of Defense's position was: We don't know what these things are, we don't believe they're of any defense significance. But it remained open-minded about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life," Pope said.
One file, designated DEFE 24/2032 (p10-34), is titled "U.N. Discussions on UFOs." It "contains papers dealing with United Nations discussions on UFOs in 1977-1978 generated by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the [Ministry of Defense]."
The document reveals how the Ministry of Defense used its influence to stop the country of Grenada from getting the U.N. to form a special agency to conduct UFO research. Grenada continued its campaign "for a full U.N. debate on UFOs, calling on the U.N. General Assembly to make 1978 'the year of the UFO.'"
This reporter is well aware of the 1978 event. I was the person who produced the entire UFO U.N. presentation for Grenada.