British 'X Files' papers revealed

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UFOs hovering over Waterloo Bridge? Green men known as Elgar? This can only mean the British 'X-Files' have been opened up to the public for the first time.
The fascinating reports, taken so seriously they were documented by the Ministry of Defence, have been revealed after a Freedom of Information request by UFO researchers. Among the most sensational is the famous Rendlesham Forest case.
A report from Lt.Col Charles Halt on 13th January 1981 tells how on the night of December 27th security patrolmen spotted odd lights above the forest.
They saw the lights plunge down and went to investigate.
In the forest they found a triangular shaped object 9ft long by 6ft high hovering above the ground.

Flashing lights
The object had a pulsing red light on top with blue lights underneath.
According to the patrolmen a white light coming from the UFO illuminated the whole forest. The object suddenly took off and flew away. Other airmen on the base also saw the lights. Investigators studying the site where the craft landed found three depressions in a triangular shape. A radar reading spiked at each depression. Two nights later more lights were noticed.

Lt.Col Halt's report states that a large red glow split into five separate white objects which hovered in the sky for two to three hours.
His investigations showed that there were no aircraft in the vicinity on the two nights which could account for the phenomenon.
MoD investigators also admit in the files that they could find no explanation for what was seen.

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Secret UFO files revealed online

Sightings of extra-terrestrial objects in the skies above the UK have been revealed for the first time by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) online.

Declassified documents, which cover the period from 1978 to 1987, are a treasure trove of extra-planetary sightings from across Britain.
The move to put the secret documents into the public domain comes after several requests were made under the Freedom of Information Act and also because of a "proactive move by the MoD for an open and transparent government", a spokesman for the National Archives said.

One document, now available on the National Archives website, reveals how on March 17 1985 an object with a "banana shape" was seen hovering over Wembley Stadium. The report adds that the floodlights at the famous football ground were not on that particular night. Another document reveals a sighting from a "business man who appeared very rational" who observed a "laser beam moving irrationally along the dual carriageway from Raglan to Abergavenny". The eight files that have been released are only a fraction of the 200 classified files due for release over the next four years.

Much of the documents contain correspondence between members of the public and the government and the MoD. One elderly man explains how he was dumped from a spaceship because the aliens told him he was "too old and infirm". For the first month, visitors to the National Archives website will be able to download the declassified documents for free.

UFO enthusiasts can also listen to a podcast by Dr David Clarke, an expert in UFO history, as he explains the significance of the newly released UFO files as well as watch a videocast from Nick Pope, former UFO investigator at the MoD.

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

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Im not some kind of expert but "A radar reading spiked at each depression" sounds kind of weird. As in, you dont radar the ground unless you're doing a some topography thing (usually from up high) and obviously holes (depressions) would spike in some kind of fashian.