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February 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 18/02/2010 9:04 AM Page 40 40 UFOs In Mainstream Media Britain releases new UFO of the reports in the latest file describe UFOs as besides feeling ill (he) was very frightened." big, black and triangular, whereas reports from The newly released files span 6,000 files the 1940s and '50s tended to be about saucers or pages and cover the period 1994 to 2000. disc-shaped objects, they said. They were released alongside another London, England (CNN) -- A hovering "In the 1950s the next big leap in file dating back to 1952 which showed then Toblerone and a silky-white residue join near- technology was thought to be a round craft that British prime minister Winston Churchill misses and strange lights in the British took off vertically, and it's intriguing to note that requesting a briefing on UFOs from his government's latest release of its files on UFO this is the same period when people began to secretary of state for air. sightings. report seeing 'flying saucers' in the sky," said "What does all this stuff about flying Made public Thursday, the files are the David Clarke, author of a book called The UFO saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is fifth collection of records about unidentified Files and a journalism lecturer at Sheffield the truth? Let me have a report at your flying objects to be released by the Ministry of Hallam University. convenience," he wrote. Defence and The National Archives as part of a He pointed out that in the years covered In the reply, Churchill was told that project to open the files up to a wider audience. by the latest file release, triangle-shaped U.S. alleged UFO sightings could be explained by Thursday's release is the largest so far, stealth bombers and Aurora spy planes featured earthly phenomena such as optical illusions, totaling more than 6,000 pages of material from heavily on TV shows like "The X-Files" and mistaken identification of planes, birds and 1994 to 2000. movies like Independence Day. balloons and deliberate hoaxes. The files include a sighting by a man in "It's impossible to prove a direct link The more recent files detailed reams of Birmingham, England, in March 1997. He said between what people are reading and watching other UFO spottings. he came home from work at 4 a.m. to see a large and what they report as UFOs, but one A policeman said he saw one flying over blue triangle-shaped craft hovering over his interpretation could be that the latest advances Chelsea Football Club's Stamford Bridge back garden. in technology may be influencing what people ground in southwest London in 1999, while a It was silent but caused dogs in the see in the sky," he said. man in Birmingham, central England, saw a neighborhood to bark, the report said. It "shot A craving for chocolate may have blue triangle hovering over his garden late one off and disappeared" after about three minutes, influenced another sighting, that of a night in 1997. the report said, leaving behind a "silky-white "Toblerone-shaped" UFO hovering over That alleged alien craft flew off quickly, substance" on the treetops, some of which he Annandale, Scotland, in July 1994. The leaving behind a "silky-white" substance on saved in a jar. Toblerone is a triangular-shaped Swiss nearby treetops which the man collected in a It was not clear what happened to the jar chocolate candy bar. The files include a sketch jam jar. and its contents. of the object, which showed it as 35-40 feet long One UFOlogist, David Clarke of Another document, from January 1997, and about 20 feet wide. Sheffield Hallam University in northern is about a man driving home through south It hovered silently about 10 feet above a England, said the latest files showed how the Wales one night when he saw "a 'tube of light' field with no lights and was "observed for at shape of reported flying saucers had changed in coming down from the sky," which at first least 40 minutes," the report said. recent decades. seemed like a "massive star" coming toward The release also contains several This could be linked to sci-fi television him. incidents involving UFOs and aircraft, such as a shows and films like "The X Files" and The man's mobile phone and car radio near-miss that happened in January 1995 when "Independence Day", he said. failed, the report said, and the man got out of his a British Airways Boeing 737 was approaching "One interpretation could be that the car and was able to walk through the light. It Manchester airport. The captain and a crew latest advances in technology may be said he got back in his car but started feeling member saw the object, but an investigation by influencing what people see in the sky," he said. sick, and he soon developed a skin condition for the Civil Aviation Authority failed to identify it, which he had to see a doctor. the report said. Virginia Legislature Bans His car was left covered in dirt and dust, An airliner near Glasgow Airport saw Microchip Implants as “Mark of the report said. white and red flashing lights in December 1996, The Beast” Other reports are about sightings by but the report simply concluded there was no groups of people, including one from August RAF activity in the area at the time. 1997 in which five members of a fishing trawler Requiring individuals to have medical in the North Sea reported seeing a round, flat, Churchill demanded UFO implants placed under their skin isn’t just a potential shiny object hovering in the sky. briefing: secret files violation of someone’s civil rights—it’s downright satanic. Republican Mark Cole, a member of They saw it both with the naked eye and Virginia’s House of Delegates, is sponsoring through binoculars, with the report noting, legislation that would prevent employers or "witness very skeptical of UFOs." They tracked LONDON — Hundreds of UFO insurance companies from forcing people to get the object on their radar for several seconds sightings by Britons, including one who implants because he thinks the microchips could before it vanished, the report said. developed a skin condition after a supernatural amount to the Antichrist’s “mark of the beast” Police officers in Boston, England, and encounter, emerged in files out Thursday which mentioned in the Bible. Skegness -- both on England's east coast, caught also show Winston Churchill's interest in the “My understanding—I’m not a theologian—but a UFO on video at the same time that the Royal issue. there’s a prophecy in the Bible that says you’ll have Air Force (RAF) detected an "unidentified blip" The most unusual of the newly to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell on their radar, the files show. declassified Ministry of Defence files tells how things in end times,” Cole told The Washington It happened in October 1996, when the a man in Ebbw Vale, south Wales, claimed his Post. “Some people think these computer chips might be that mark.” officers saw "strange rotating red, blue, green car was surrounded for five minutes by a "tube Some of Cole’s colleagues in the Virginia and white flashing lights in the sky," the report of light" in 1997. legislature have been left shaking their heads over said. A ship in The Wash, a bay near Boston, The man, who reported the incident to the idea. Democrat Robert Brink compared the also saw the lights, and at the same time RAF police, was sick the next day and also developed concern to the likelihood of asteroids striking the air defense radars picked up the blip over a mysterious skin condition. earth or giant alligators roaming underground Boston, the report said. "First sighting seemed like a massive sewers. Press coverage of the incident led the star moving towards the car," the previously top He also said that California’s legislature RAF to look into the lights, later identifying secret police report said. passed a similar ban, and that alone was reason some as stars and bright planets, and attributing "Having stopped the car and switched enough for Virginia to avoid doing the same thing. the radar blip to a "permanent echo" created by the lights off, the light encircled the car, “If Virginia is starting to use California as our a nearby church spire. remaining for perhaps five minutes. legislative role model, it’s a sign that our legislative apocalypse has arrived,” Brink told the Free Lance- The release highlights how the reported "(The man) was able to walk through the Star. shapes of UFOs have changed during the past light which was very bright. There was no Nevertheless, Cole’s bill was approved half-century, the National Archives said. Many sound, no aircraft or helicopter noise, and by the House of Delegates last week.