UK X-Files: Mass Sightings From Cornwall To Wales (Solved?)

A secret US spy plane - the existence of which has never been officially admitted - may have been behind a number of UFO sightings, newly released files suggest today.

More than 70 witnesses including police and military personnel reported sightings in Devon, Cornwall, South Wales and Shropshire in the early hours of Wednesday March 31, 1993, with many describing a large, low-flying object which made a low humming sound.

In a briefing note to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (ACAS), Sir Anthony Bagnall, the head of the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk wrote that there was evidence of an unidentified craft evading UK defences.

He said he would not normally concern Sir Anthony with UFO sightings but continued: ‘You may wish to be aware of a recent particularly unusual incidence of UFO sightings over the UK, involving descriptions that match some of the reported characterisations of the so-called “Aurora”.’

The Aurora was the name given to an unmanned US reconnaissance aircraft supposedly developed in secret ‘black’ programmes in the 1980s and alleged to be capable of hypersonic flight.

The plane was the subject of much speculation at the time and the British Government was forced to deny allowing experimental flights over the UK. Read more …