The UFO files are available to be viewed by the public for free for one month

[sky otter]

 
  link to view files are at the bottom


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/uk-ufo-x-files_n_1668444.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

UFO X-Files Released By U.K. Reveal Desire To Weaponize Alien Technology
Posted: 07/12/2012 8:24 pm Updated: 07/12/2012 9:52 pm

Newly released X-Files from the United Kingdom's National Archives reveal the role of that country's Ministry of Defense UFO Desk officers, what they actually thought about possible alien visits to Earth and their ideas on harnessing alien technology as a weapon.

There are 25 files, comprising more than 6,700 pages, that include UFO policy, parliamentary questions, media issues, public correspondence and, of course, UFO sighting reports. Overall, more than 10,000 UFO reports came through the special Ministry of Defense unit from 1950 to 2009.

"These are probably the most fascinating and bizarre government files ever made available to the public," said Nick Pope, who was the UFO Desk officer from 1991 to 1994.

"There's massive public interest in UFOs, and at one point, the MoD was getting more Freedom of Information Act requests about UFOs than any other subject," Pope told The Huffington Post in an email. "The files contain the usual mixture of policy documents, sighting reports, photos, sketches and papers discussing how best to handle the subject with Parliament, the media and the public."


File DEFE 24/2080/1 is a collection of MoD UFO information from 1972 to 1995 that includes intelligence papers that were declassified from "secret."

On page 157 of this file is a briefing prepared for the MoD before a 1979 House of Lords debate in which an intelligence officer asks why aliens would want to visit "an insignificant planet (the Earth) of an uninteresting star (the sun)." He wrote that this sort of visit "would probably not occur more than once in 1,000 years or so, even if one assumes that every intelligent community made 10 launches a year." The officer concluded that "claims of thousands of visits in the last decade or so are far too large to be credible."

Pages 38 to 43 of the file contain a 1995 briefing by a UFO Desk officer, calling for a full study of UFOs, since national security implications had never been assessed. The writer suggested that, "If the sightings are not of this Earth, then their purpose needs to be established as a matter of priority."

In that same briefing, an intelligence officer indicates the need to capture UFO technology for U.K. use. "If the reports are taken at face value, then devices exist that do not use conventional reaction propulsion systems; they have a very wide range of speeds and are stealthy. I suggest we could use this technology, if it exists."



File DEFE 24/2090/1 references a U.K. study of what were called Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, or UAP. Page 47 of this file reports that some UFOs/UAP might be rare atmospheric plasmas or ball lightning that could be harnessed or used by the military as "novel weapon technology."

A recent Huffington Post story included statements from former undercover CIA officer Chase Brandon, who said that in the 1990s, he found a box labeled "Roswell" at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Brandon said there was information in that box that was related to the alleged 1947 UFO crash outside of Roswell, N.M.


File DEFE 24/1985/1 brings up the subject of the Roswell incident in a Jan. 3, 1997, response to a question raised on whether or not the MoD had ever been briefed by the CIA about Roswell. The response by a Defense Intelligence official states, "We have no data on the alleged 'Roswell incident' or any 'crashed UFO incidents in the UK.' In short, DI 55 has no records of any UAP/UFO 'crashes' in either the UK or US and have never, as far as we can tell from existing files, received any briefs from any US agencies, including the CIA."

"The question of whether or not we're alone in the universe is one of the biggest and most profound questions we can ask," said Pope. "People are fascinated with the idea that we might have been visited, and these files chart MoD's attempts to grapple with the subject."

There is much more to be revealed about the U.K. files, including how Prime Minister Tony Blair was briefed on UFO sightings in 1998, and how the efforts of David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University were instrumental in getting the MoD to release the UFO files to the public.


............................................................................................

Nick Pope explains some of the new U.K. X-Files.





.....................................................................

National Archives consultant David Clarke introduces the new U.K. UFO files.




.................................................................

The UFO files are available to be viewed by the public for free for one month.


http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Newly released UFO files
from the UK governmentFiles released in July 2012
The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents, drawings, letters and parliamentary questions ranging from 1965 up to 2008.

Discover the role of the UFO Desk Officers, what they really thought of alien visitors, their ideas to harness alien technology as a weapon, and their briefings to Tony Blair on UFO policy.

Start by reading our highlights guide (PDF, 358kb) to help navigate your way through the files.

Six of the files (DEFE 31/189/1-194/1) contain some duplicates of UFO sighting reports copied by the Air Secretariat between 1996-1999. The original papers were released by The National Archives in February 2010.

Due to the large size of some of these files, we recommend you save them to your computer before opening them. Please right click on the links and select the 'save' option.



http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

[Littleenki]

Great link, and I downloaded them in about 5 minutes. Looking forward to some interesting reading there!
I have to wonder if this is the beginning of the Olympic conspiracy?
Le

[Amaterasu]

Hoping to get copies, Dave, when I have a HD to DL to.  [grin]  My HD is not even in the computer at present.  Looking forward!

[ArMaP]

I have to wonder if this is the beginning of the Olympic conspiracy?

Not very likely, they have been releasing some files from time to time in the last two or three years (I think).

I already got mine, on the day they were published.

But I haven't had time to look at them.

[Pimander]

I don't have the old ones.  HD death!!!  GRRRRR!

[ArMaP]

I don't have the old ones.  HD death!!!  GRRRRR!

Let me see what I have...

282 files, 3.53 GB

Too much for an e-mail.

[Pimander]

When I have my external HD, we could do a file share?  It isn't at this house...

Do you have unlimited, unmetered internet?

[zorgon]

Let me see what I have...
282 files, 3.53 GB
Too much for an e-mail.

I can set you up with an FTP account on the website  I did for Undo Matrix and Playswithmachines

I have unlimited space on the server
You can make subdirectories and link to files, even put html pages there

example:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/48matrix_traveller/images/Gallery_001.html

OH and it only accesses that section... you cannot access the rest of the server so its safe

[ArMaP]

I can set you up with an FTP account on the website  I did for Undo Matrix and Playswithmachines

That would be great, sometimes I need a place to put large images but all free servers have some kind of limitations, so I cannot even post a full size photo taken with my camera. 

[Pimander]

It would also stop me losing docs when my PC or HD go belly up.

[A51Watcher]

Yeah I would like to save original copies of my videos there... just in case ya know. 

They look better than the YT versions too.


I welcome anyone who wants to, to save copies of my videos for safe keeping and all.

Ya never know how bumpy this ride may get.

[Amaterasu]

I don't have the old ones.  HD death!!!  GRRRRR!

For some strange reason, I can relate.  Hmmmm.

[ArMaP]

I use ADrive to backup my files, it's free version allows up to 50GB of storage.

[Pimander]

Bookmarked.  Thanks ArMaP.

This chat has made me realise that I need to order my files and make sure my data is backed up.

[sky otter]

well there are more to come according to the last two sentences here



Clarke says a final batch of about 25 more UFO files is expected to be released by the British government within the next 12 months.

The UFO files are available for free public download until Aug. 11, 2012. And to help you navigate through the files, check out Clarke's excellent research guide.




..........................................

UFO Files: Declassified U.K. Documents Released, Reveal Tony Blair Was Briefed On UFO Sightings
Posted: 07/17/2012 8:15 am

When the U.K. released declassified UFO documents a few days ago, the 25 files of nearly 7,000 pages included how:

•Prime Minister Tony Blair had been briefed on UFO sightings in 1998.

•The Ministry of Defense was concerned about military jets crashing after reported encounters with UFOs.


•U.K. Defense Intelligence wanted to create weapons out of little known atmospheric plasmas.

"Back then, in 1998, if you had said to me that by 2012, the Ministry of Defense will have disclosed virtually everything they have on this subject, I would have found that difficult to believe. And yet, here we are. They have," said David Clarke, the U.K. National Archives consultant (seen in the video above) and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.


File DEFE 24/1987/1 is an MoD 1998 briefing for Blair after author Nick Redfern wrote to the prime minister and urged him to make all U.K. UFO reports available to the public. Redfern's request came at the same time that Blair was about to create that country's Freedom of Information Act.


"It appears that the Ministry of Defense decided to give Blair [seen at right], a briefing on UFOs because people were going to start making requests under the new act," Clarke, author of "The UFO Files," told The Huffington Post.

"Tony Blair has since gone on record in his memoirs to say that introducing a Freedom of Information Act is the worst decision he ever took," Clarke said. "It encouraged people like myself to start bombarding various departments of the government with requests. This is why they decided to release the UFO files because they just could not sustain the pressure that we were putting them under."

"It was costing them a lot of money to respond to each individual request and they were having to troll through these files."

Clarke says the numbers of people who have logged onto the National Archives website, 3.8 million downloads, is more than they've ever had before on any other subject.



File DEFE 24/2090/1 references a report called "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the U.K. Air Defense Region," code-named "Project Condign." The report, completed in 2000, was first classified as Secret/UK Eyes Only prior to being declassified for public release.

Condign included something that had both serious and frightening UFO overtones -- fatal accidents of Royal Air Force aircraft after UFO encounters.

"There were records of unexplained fatal accidents, where you've got an aircraft that was flying fast and low over terrain, like in a training exercise, and suddenly, for no obvious reason, the pilot had taken evasive action and plowed his aircraft into a hillside, killing the entire crew," said Clarke.

According to the Condign report, while no definitive conclusions could be drawn, it couldn't rule out the possibility that some unexplained losses of RAF military aircraft may have been caused by the pilots seeing some unidentified object ahead of the aircraft. That object, if it was there, could have caused the evasive action that led to the aircraft being lost.

"When I read that, I thought, 'Wow!' The fact that they were seriously considering that as a possibility for the loss of military aircraft was just incredible," Clarke said. "But nobody picked up on it at the time the report was released. I tried to get the media interested, and nobody would touch it."

To show how serious this matter was, Clarke says the author of the Condign report recommended that military air crews be advised that, in the future, no attempt should be made to out-maneuver an unidentified aerial phenomenon. And the same applied to civilian crews.



File DEFE 24/2090/1 also discusses how some UFOs may be the result of strange, atmospheric plasmas and that "Russia was interested in harnessing these plasmas for potential military use," Clarke said.

"They didn't think it was alien technology -- they thought it was some kind of natural phenomenon that existed in Earth's atmosphere. If they could somehow work out how these [things] were created, they'd be useful on the battlefield. If you could produce some fantastic spinning orb on the battlefield that knocked out your enemy's electronic equipment, what a fantastic weapon to deploy," Clarke added.


Clarke says a final batch of about 25 more UFO files is expected to be released by the British government within the next 12 months.

The UFO files are available for free public download until Aug. 11, 2012. And to help you navigate through the files, check out Clarke's excellent research guide.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/tony-blair-ufo-briefings_n_1676157.html