Report collating a decade of UFO sightings in 1990s was intended to protect ministry from more X-Files inspired requests
It was 1997, the 50th anniversary of the suspected flying saucer crash at Roswell in New Mexico, and the heyday of the paranormal mystery series The X-Files. The English-speaking world was gripped by UFO-mania. But what seemed a delightful | By Damien Gayle The Guardian 5-6-18 |
Analysts at the DI55 office, the department lumbered with the UFO brief, were being peppered with requests from ufologists – and even parliamentary questions – for information on flying saucers, taking up time they felt would be better spent on terrestrial defence matters. So top brass decided to undertake a definitive study of the unit’s collection of reported UFO sightings to establish, once and for all, whether there was anything in them.
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This series of responses sounds similar to the 1953 Robertson Panel strategy in dealing with the subject in the USA.
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