Ministry Of Defense Closes UFO Department
I guess the recession also affects those outside our own planet.
After 50 years of operation, the “X files” department in the Ministry of Defense has been cut. This department investigated all UFO reports in the UK and actively pursued the cases. Without warning and without much noise, the MoD shyly announce that no longer would they be taking calls on their UFO hotline; nor diverting the MoD’s funds to investigating UFOs.
With all these UFO reports, not only by civilians, but by military personnel, why stop after 50 years? Is the world recession that bad?
Full Source: Telegraph UK
The MoD department, which has dealt with more than 12,000 reports – including 135 last year – was used to assess threats posed by any Unidentified Flying Objects sightings throughout Britain.
Any reports made would now not be investigated or followed up as the hotline had been closed, a spokesman said.
UFO experts expressed anger at the decision.
MoD chiefs made the decision to close the £50,000 a year department, established in 1950, after deciding there was no benefit investigating sightings which were “an inappropriate use of defence resources”.
It comes after the team was moved from the MoD’s team, similar to the FBI team featured in the TV programme the X Files, was moved a year ago from the Whitehall Headquarters to the RAF Command in High Wycombe, Bucks.
After an application under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD admitted that responding to every UFO sightings “diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to Defence”.
No decision was announced and the disclosure was instead buried on its website earlier this month.
It said that in more than 50 years “no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom”.
After investigation, around 5 per cent of reports remain unexplained.“The MOD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life,” the spokesman said.
“The MOD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings.“Accordingly, and in order to make best use of Defence resources, we have decided that from the 1 December 2009 the dedicated UFO hotline answer-phone service and e-mail address will be withdrawn.”
He added: “MOD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
Nick Pope, who ran the Ministry of Defence UFO project from 1991 to 1994, said it was “outrageous”.“We’re leaving ourselves wide open to terrorist attacks,” he told The Sun.
The spokesman said the programme to release departmental files on UFO matters to the National Archive would continue.
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Guess this was one of those articles that most people read and just say, “huh, that was interesting.” I have something to say, though. If we are not having the backing from the government on these findings it means one of two things…1) they found something and are covering it up or 2) they just don’t care about the issue enough to have at least something set aside for it so that the money can be used for the senseless wars that terrorists start.
I’m hoping it’s option 2 as long as they have an emergency fund in case, God forbid, something actual, factual, and publicly documented happens.
Just makes ya go hmmmmm.
I’m with you Michka. The whole story smells of an elaborate scheme to get people distracted from other matters at hand the public has yet to discover. *Cringes*
Probably just another government decision for us that we aren’t ready to hear the truth. To quote the X-Files, the truth is out there. And that’s why we have so many shows with everyday people showing us “actual footage” of anything strange. Then we get a public announcement from the government that it was a hoax.
Had a professor in college who worked with NASA and said that it was physically impossible for any aliens to visit our planet. In our understanding of physics and space travel, I always agreed. But only because we are a young planet with limited knowledge of how to get from point A to point B. He was also a pompous jerk. Four hours a week to say how he wastes his time in public education while he waits for NASA to call him back.
Another government cover too, I’m sure.