An
interesting admission...
Britain
visited by one UFO a month but MoD rules they pose no threat
The
Ministry of Defence will no longer investigate UFO sightings after
ruling there is “no evidence” they pose a threat to the UK
despite a senior aviation official admitting the country is visited
by one unidentified flying object a month.
19
August, 2012
It
is official at last: Britain is not at risk from unidentified flying
objects.
Those
who have long feared an invasion from Mars or further afield can
relax – at least, that is, if they believe the Ministry of Defence.
An
end has been ordered to all official investigations of Unidentified
Flying Objects, or UFOs, after the ministry ruled they do not pose a
threat to the nation’s security.
It
comes as the head of UK Air Traffic Control admitted the country is
visited by around one unidentified flying object a month.
Asked
on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the existence of UFOs, Mr
Deakin confirmed they were still being seen by his staff.
He
said: "Occasionally there are objects identified that do not
conform to normal traffic patterns. It does not occupy a huge amount
of my time. There are approximately one a month."
Yet
despite this, the MoD insists it will no longer investigate UFO
sightings.
The
ruling came after the careful collation over the years of reports of
strange lights in the skies, odd noises and apparent close
encounters.
The
move to end all investigation was disclosed after a dedicated hotline
for UFO sightings was discontinued for cost grounds, and the “UFO
desk”, which cost £44,000 a year was also removed.
Now
officials say that any UFO investigation would divert valuable
resources and instead a sophisticated network of radar infrastructure
and anti-ballistic missile systems to monitor British airspace will
spot any genuine threat.
An
MoD spokesman said: “In over fifty years no UFO report revealed any
evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.
“The
MoD had no specific capability for identifying the nature of such
sightings and there would be no benefit in such an investigation.
Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverted MOD
resources from tasks that were more relevant to defence.”
The
abandonment of the UFO hotline and dedicated desk officer in 2009 had
already caused concern among those who believe in the phenomena.
Now
the decision to abandon investigations entirely has frustrated some
members of the public convinced they have glimpsed the
extraterrestrial – and those who are simply unsure of what they
have seen.
Jane
Randall, a housewife from Woking, Surrey, captured a strange looking
object in the skies above Silbury Hill in Wiltshire when she took a
photograph using her mobile phone while taking part in a field trip
to learn about the archaeology in the area.
She
said: “I didn’t see anything at the time, nor did the ten people
I was with, but when I looked back over the photos there were two
pictures a second apart with this strange conical shape hovering
behind the hill.
“The
pictures I took either side of this didn’t have any mark on them so
I don’t think it could have been dust on the lens.
“I’m
just an ordinary person, but thought I should report it to someone so
they could take a look. When I phoned the police, they said it was
not a police matter and I spoke to someone at the RAF who said they
did not investigate UFOs any more.”
Nick
Pope, who ran the MoD’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994 and now
researches UFO sightings privately, said: “One of the problems was
that an increasing number of the reports the MoD was getting were low
quality.
“When
someone has a photograph though, that should be considered to be a
different situation. The MoD has the personnel and equipment to very
quickly analyse an image to tell whether it has been altered and
identify what an object might be.
“A
lot of ordinary members of the public feel it is their duty to report
anything out of the ordinary.
"I
get a lot of people contacting me now about sightings and it is
frustrating that there is no where official that they can report them
– it has become a black hole.”
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