It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... certainly not a UFO. After Britain's Ministry of Defense shut down its UFO desk in 2009, the ministry finally revealed the last of its X-files that seem to explain what people were actually seeing when they reported sightings of extra-terrestrials.
The 4,300-page cache of documents reveals that sightings of potentially alien objects tripled by the time the UFO desk shut down. In 2009, a total of 643 sightings were received. While even members of the nation's armed forces sent in reports of UFOs in the sky, it turns out that most people were actually just seeing Chinese lanterns.
National Archives consultant on the UFO files Dr. David Clarke tells The Telegraph that roughly two thirds of 2009's reports could be explained by people seeing Chinese lanterns floating in the sky. In one recorded 2008 instance, a police helicopter crew in Wales reported seeing small lights in the...
The 4,300-page cache of documents reveals that sightings of potentially alien objects tripled by the time the UFO desk shut down. In 2009, a total of 643 sightings were received. While even members of the nation's armed forces sent in reports of UFOs in the sky, it turns out that most people were actually just seeing Chinese lanterns.
National Archives consultant on the UFO files Dr. David Clarke tells The Telegraph that roughly two thirds of 2009's reports could be explained by people seeing Chinese lanterns floating in the sky. In one recorded 2008 instance, a police helicopter crew in Wales reported seeing small lights in the...
- 6/21/2013
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