UFO Enthusiasts Call on Obama to Release X-Files. Will He Do?

Desperate to see the US emulate the British Government and disclose reported “contact” with UFOs, the enthusiasts have written to Mr Obama to ask that his administration comes clean about the contents of America’s “X-Files”.

They believe they have good prospects of success after public statements of support from both John Podesta, who is running Mr Obama’s White House transition team, and Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico - a UFO sighting hotspot - who is expected to secure a cabinet post. Read more …

UK X-Files: The Belgium Scramble

Between November 1989 and April 1990 the Belgian Air Force scrambled fighter jets to investigate potential UFOs in its airspace.

Despite reports from police, radar contact and other eyewitness accounts, the authorities never established what was repeatedly hovering unannounced in their skies.

The first wave of observations began on November 29 and three days later on the evening of December 2, two F-16s were sent to the Liege area to investigate a sighting.

They found nothing.

Something in the skies: A mocked-up picture of a UFO flying down a U.S. highway

But according to an air force ground controller, the ‘echo’ on the radar vanished when the planes arrived but returned when the F-16s left. Read more …

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 …

UK X-Files: Lemonheads

‘We want you, come with us,’ were the words coming out of a lemon-shaped head, according to one report.

The figure wanted the young boys who had stopped in a field at 23.55 on May 4 1995 in Chasetown, Staffordshire, to stare at what they believed was an UFO.

The pair ran to a local police station and breathlessly asked the officers on duty to come outside and look across the distance at the glowing-red saucer-shaped object.
Enlarge ‘Lemon heads’: The handwritten notes of one of the boys who claimed he was approached by an alien

‘Lemon heads’: The handwritten notes of one of the boys who claimed he was approached by an alien

Police thought it was an aircraft.

The episode is recorded in official files released today by the Ministry of Defence.

The officer’s report reads the boys arrived ‘agitated and distressed’ after gazing at the UFO which emitted an intense heat before zig-zagging off east to west.

‘They stated the object was about four houses high in the sky and about forty foot away from them,’ said the report.

‘They then, reluctantly, went on to say that a voice which came from a lemon-like head, which appeared beneath the machine said “We want you, come with us”.

‘Both appeared upset and shocked and as such it was increasingly difficult to obtain detailed information from them.’ Read more …

UK X-Files: Lasers At The Cemetery

One young man claimed he saw a UFO hovering over a cemetery before it fired burning laser beams into the ground.

The man - ‘a sensible sort of lad and genuine’, according to police - was making his way home after a night out in Widnes, Cheshire, at 2.30am on July 15, 1996.

According to a police log released today by the Ministry of Defence, a bright yellow light followed the youngster, who was crossing a footbridge from Avondale Drive into Upton.

The light was ‘two houses high’, he reported, and followed him when he tried to walk away from it.

He told police it followed and made a high-pitched noise ‘like cats wailing’, before blasting light beams downwards.

When he returned home, he told his father what happened and he returned to the spot with him.

The pair found four railway sleepers smouldering and one with a 4in hole burnt through it.

The official record shows a police officer was sent to the scene and he reported there was no sign of an accelerant being used.

The officer reported to his station: ‘One of the sleepers is still smouldering. It does look rather odd.’

The local chief inspector was informed as well as the Aeronautical Information Service - which passes information to the air authorities to ensure the skies are safe. Read more …

UK X-Files: Britain’s Roswell

The incident, in early morning of December 27, 1980, has become known as ‘Britain’s own Roswell’, and has never been fully explained.

The late Lord Hill-Norton, a member of what he described as the ‘rather ineffective’ House of Lords UFO Group, wrote to Mr Heseltine in May 1985 to express his concern over the ‘puzzling and disquieting features’ of the case.

He referred to the USAF report submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt in which the deputy base commander details the account of three patrolmen.

Lt Col Halt wrote: ‘The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest.

‘The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three metres across the base and approximately two metres high.

‘It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared.’

The commander himself described witnessing three depressions in the ground the next day where the object had been sighted.

And later that night he was among several men who saw a ‘red sun-like light’ through the trees which ‘moved about and pulsed’.

He said: ‘At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and then disappeared.’

Lord Hill-Norton said if Lt Col Halt’s report was accurate ‘there is evidence that British airspace and territory are vulnerable to unwarranted intrusion to a disturbing degree’. Read more …

Close encounters… UFOs made 600 visits to the UK in a single year, according to MoD ‘X-Files’

Hundreds of Britons had ‘close encounters’ with UFOs, according to previously-classified documents
released by the Ministry of Defence today.

The sightings were made between 1981 and 1996 from observers including police officers, fighter pilots and school children. They range from lights in the sky to close contact with aliens with ‘lemon-shaped heads’, and include detailed analysis on some of the UK’s most well-known cases.

There’s something in the skies… Observers stand on the edge of Bonnybridge in Scotland, one of the UK’s hotspots for UFO encounters

‘We want you, come with us,’ one alien apparently told two terrified Staffordshire boys in 1995 after appearing from under a hovering UFO. Read more …