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35 Is This A Flying Saucer? 35 Is This A Flying Saucer? Is that a flying saucer? phoned by a “distressed female” who described International UFO Congress and supporters will Is that a flying saucer? again promote it at the X-Conference next being engaged in conversation by an alien with No, it’s a stealth a Scandinavian accent while walking her dog. month. No, it’s a stealth Small claims courts, similar to the ones bomber The alien then departed in his spaceship. popularized on television shows like the bomber The same year, the RAF was told of a by Jack Grimston by Jack Grimston large flying object seen approaching “from People’s Court, are usually the domain of Filton airport” by a “pleasant lady” from her neighbor disputes over minor property issues. INTELLIGENCE officers scoured sofa in Bristol. It had an object on top “like a Citizens can file suit against another person, hundreds of UFO sighting reports in the 1980s teapot lid”. business, government, or other entity for an and 1990s looking for top-secret American In 1992, a secret memo reported amount not to exceed hundreds or thousands of stealth-plane projects, newly released files have nocturnal sightings in the eastern suburbs of dollars, depending on the state or county statute. shown. London of “a bright cigar-shaped object, Attorneys are not allowed for either the plaintiff At the end of the cold war, the Ministry moving very slowly and making little or no or defendant. of Defence was worried that America was sound”. So what beef do UFO hunters have with developing mysterious planes but not telling its An intelligence analyst recorded that the NASA? They claim that the space agency is closest ally. Staff at department DI55 of the craft was “almost certainly a brightly committing fraud by altering or destroying Defence Intelligence Staff logged and illuminated airship advertising the new Ford photographic evidence it has of signs of life in investigated hundreds of sightings by pilots, air- Mondeo”. other planetary systems. Part of NASA’s official traffic controllers and private individuals who See UFO files at mission is to “Look for signs of life in other believed they had seen an alien presence. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos [] planetary systems” and the agency receives over “The MoD did not believe Britain was $17 billion a year in taxpayer funding to 'UFO' blip leaves being visited by aliens but these files show they 'UFO' blip leaves accomplish that mission. Supporters of the were obsessed with the fear that our closest ally small claims idea say that this is “waste, fraud airport officials foxed was developing spy planes and keeping them airport officials foxed and abuse” because it keeps asking for the secret from us,” said David Clarke, a lecturer at Times of India money every year while “pretending” that it Sheffield Hallam University, and UFO hasn’t found anything. specialist at the National Archives (which today KOLKATA: An unidentified flying Jeff Peckman, of the Denver UFO releases hundreds of official UFO files on its object blipped on the city radar in the wee hours Examiner, explained the reasoning using his website). of Thursday, a little after mysterious objects hometown as an example: In one incident logged in 1989, an oil- were photograph-ed hovering in the London rig worker trained in aircraft observation saw a sky. The blip that lasted for 15 minutes on the …the portion of NASA funding coming from “perfect black triangle” escorted by two Bay of Bengal left airport and IAF officials Denver taxpayers amounts to over $30 million American fighters. An official noted: “Attention foxed. While some suspect an unscheduled each year. That might seem small compared to is now focusing on this, despite a recent US Air aircraft strayed into Indian airspace, others the Federal budget and even the Denver city Force ‘denial briefing’. This is bound to prompt termed it a UFO. The Directo-rate General of budget. But it’s almost daily news that city parliamentary interest.” In 1990, the crews of Civil Aviation has ordered an investigation. budgets like Denver are cutting $1 million here six RAF Tornado jets flying over Germany The unidentified aircraft or object was and there from programs to help the homeless, reported seeing a UFO. Staff at RAF West spotted on the airport radar at 3.45 am on Th- children, people with special needs, law Drayton, where many sightings were initially ursday. Sources said there was only a Cathay enforcement and more. collated, noted that the pilots had reported the Pacific overfli-ght scheduled for the time and in NASA’s bloated and wasteful budget “aerial phenomenon” overtaking them, and that direction. “But the fli-ght showed a could be better spent locally to help individuals said: “Possibly idented [identified] as a stealth separate blip. What’s more, we had and communities. The alleged fraud NASA has aircraft.” communication problems with the Ca-thay engaged in by doctoring or destroying UFO In another 1990 incident, the MoD Pacific pilot during the time the mystery blip photos is just a small piece of the bigger picture. believed two men had had a chance sighting of was on screen,” said an air controller. But it’s a piece that citizens can use to get at a spy-plane called Aurora, thought to be in IAF clarified that it had no exercise least one government agency into the light of development by the Americans. They reported a scheduled over the Bay of Bengal at that hour, closer public scrutiny. diamond-shaped UFO above the A9 at Calvine and that none of its aircraft in the region were near Pitlochry, Perthshire. airborne then.Though the blip may have been The claim that NASA is hiding the truth The intelligence task sheet notes: due to either a snag in the 11-year-old radar or about aliens isn’t just an idea of sci-fi fans who “Sensitivity of material suggests very special the reflection of moonlight from a school of emerge from their mother’s basement just once handling . . . minimum handling by listed fish, what worries security agencies is the a year for gatherings of like-minded fanatics. A personnel.” The files, the latest in a series of possibility of unauthorized aircraft entering 77-year-old former NASA astronaut, Dr. Edgar UFO reports being released by the MoD, also Kolkata region. On December 17, 1995, a Mitchell, who was a crewmember of the Apollo settle a long-standing UFO conspiracy theory – Latvia-registered AN-26 aircraft had entered 14 mission, says he knows that NASA is well the death of American fighter pilot Captain India undetected and dropped arms in Purulia. aware of visits to earth by “little people who William Schaffner during an exercise over the “If a foreign aircraft had ventured into look strange to us.” North Sea in 1970. To the distress of his family, Indian airspace, it is IAF’s role to scramble and NASA’s response was not surprisingly it has been claimed by some that officials counter it,” an AAI official said. The London concise and authoritative: “NASA does not covered up a sinister incident possibly involving sighting on Thursday has hyped interest in the track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort a UFO. Kolkata UFO. Given the 5.5-hour time zone of cover up about alien life on this planet or The files include the RAF’s official difference between India and UK and the 11- anywhere in the universe. Dr. Mitchell is a great inquiry into the crash, which concluded hour flight time, science fiction buffs drew a American, but we do not share his opinions on Schaffner’s Lightning fighter had brushed the link between London’s ‘flying saucers’ and the this issue.” [] sea during a delicate, low-speed manoeuvre. mystery blip at the airport. [] When he tried to eject, the cockpit canopy remained stuck because of poor UFO enthusiasts may maintenance, and Schaffner is believed to have UFO enthusiasts may sue NASA for fraud drowned. sue NASA for fraud The vast majority of the files record calls from the public reporting various cigar- shaped objects, mysterious lights and saucer- The U.S. space agency NASA may want shaped craft. to brace itself for a flood of lawsuits in small In 1989, RAF Wattisham in Suffolk was claims courts. The idea was floated at the recent