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Friday 21 June 2013

How strange sightings trebled in 2009 when MoD axed its X Files hotline

Daily Mail: From cigar-shaped spacecraft in the night sky to abduction by aliens, they are the tales that have captivated the imagination of Earthlings for nearly a century. And now the Ministry of Defence has revealed its latest batch of reports from people claiming a close encounter in the UK. The sightings only go up to 2009, as that was the year the ‘British X-Files’ desk was closed. Spookily, that year also saw a trebling in the frequency of UFO reports, the newly declassified files show. More than 600 alien experiences were reported to the MoD’s UFO hotline, more than double the previous year and three times the usual number, according to the papers released by the National Archives. The files from 2007 to 2009 reveal several of bizarre reports of encounters with extraterrestrials, including a man who claimed he lived with an alien, UFO sightings near the Houses of Parliament and Stonehenge, and a man whose dog and tent were abducted...read more>>>....