The Speed Of Dark

The UFO Files

Presented by polkingbeal67 & smolin9

Earthwatch presenters – polkingbeal67 & smolin9
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Highlights, interviews and analysis from Earth’s media (Jul 2012)
Thousands of previously classified documents on UFOs have been transferred by Britain’s military to the National Archives.

The revelations include an abduction by aliens, a strange craft shadowing a Lancaster bomber, an RAF officer holidaying in Sri Lanka having a close encounter and a sighting by a police officer of a UFO hovering above Chelsea Football Club.

Tony Blair was apparently briefed at length on UFO and alien defence policy when he was Prime Minister and a Whitehall civil servant was paid to investigate UFO reports. Government officials believed aliens ‘might come here for holidays’ and discussed harnessing UFO technology for British defences.

David Clarke, author of a book about UFOs, said: “These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall … We now have a fascinating insight into some of the extraordinary reports and briefings which passed over the UFO Desk on a daily basis and how its officers used logic and science in their attempts to explain the unexplained.”

polkingbeal67:		Have you seen this picture?
smolin9:		Yes. So funny. I’m glad we’re using wormhole technology now and don’t have to rely on those old rust buckets. My Grandpa flew one of those.
polkingbeal67:		Did he? Do tell.
smolin9:		He once orbited a subdwarf B star so slowly he picked up three parking tickets. Yeh, it was costing him a fortune. It would have been a lot more than three tickets if he hadn’t taken drastic action.
polkingbeal67:		What did he do?
smolin9:		He removed the windscreen wipers!
polkingbeal67:		Did you ever fly with him in it?
smolin9:		Yes. We made a few family trips to Earth and got mistaken for a hot air balloon, a chinese lantern and a flying cigar. So embarrassing!