An archive detailing government briefings on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) including one sighting above Chelsea football club has been released by British officials. The 25 files released by The National Archives include "a lengthy briefing on UFO policy to then prime minister Tony Blair's office" along with a job description for the post of UFO desk officer, described as the "weirdest job in Whitehall". According to a former employee of the UFO desk, which closed in 2009, the perception that it consisted of "top secret teams of specialist scientists scurrying around the country in a real life version of the X-Files" was "total fiction". Instead, daily duties included providing briefings on the ministry of defence's position on UFOs, undertaking UFO investigations, handling freedom of information requests and managing UFOlogists (UFO "experts"). The stranger investigations included one into a UFO sighting by a police officer at Chelsea football club in London and another into a visit by three "men in black" to a person who reported a UFO encounter in Lincolnshire, east England.
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