Tales of alien abductions, flying saucers and crop circles may seem the realm of fantasy novels and science fiction movies, but reports like these are among the files now released to the public by the Ministry of Defence.   As reports in January confirmed by the Isle of Wight County Press: DID YOU SEE THIS UFO? and quite extraordinary: SPATE OF UFO SIGHTINGS OVER ISLAND

Isle of Wight County Press Editor, Alan Marriott explained at the time:

“We thought it would be a one-off, but we were just inundated with responses. People all over the Island were claiming to have seen things, the scale of it was outstanding.” read more… 

Now the first in a series of UFO files, dating back to the 1970s, have been released to the public on The National Archives’ website and who knows, in time the Isle of Wight may even get a mention. 

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) files include descriptions of alleged Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or “UFO” sightings and subsequent MoD evaluations of the reports.

To date, independent experts have concluded that there are realistic explanations behind alleged UFO reports, such as aircraft lights or natural phenomena.

Reports are examined by the Ministry of Defence solely to establish whether UK airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised military activity.

If required, sighting reports are examined with the assistance of the Department’s air defence experts. Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, no further work is undertaken to identify the nature of each sighting reported.

The Ministry of Defence has no other interest or role regarding UFO matters and does not consider questions regarding the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life-forms.

However, the MoD receives a large number of requests each year for information relating to UFOs, so to meet demand a new system has been introduced to release these files in a structured way. The rest of the files are currently under review and will be added to The National Archives over the next three years.

The MoD already releases information on sightings and this can be found on the MoD website, through the FOI Disclosure Log.

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