| According to a once secret report released by | | | | assistant to a person involved with nuclear |
| the British Ministry of Defense in April of 2007, | | | | investigations. Because I knew the person which |
| UFOs are not anything to get excited about. The | | | | arranged the phone interview very well, there |
| MoD report claims that all the incidents they have | | | | was no doubt that I was speaking with a very |
| investigated show the objects in question to be | | | | important source of insider information when it |
| without mass, no danger to air traffic and not | | | | came to the MoD. |
| under intelligent control. Despite the four hundred | | | | The official told me that there were numerous |
| pages of nay saying, not everyone agrees. | | | | incursions into areas where nuclear weapons and |
| For almost two decades, a number of British | | | | other sensitive materials were stored. These |
| Intelligence Analysts and former UK Military | | | | incursions involved unidentified aircraft and physical |
| consultants working for the MoD have leaked | | | | beings of unknown origin. He refused to elaborate |
| documents which reveal that UFOs are | | | | about the beings fearing that any further |
| intelligently-controlled vehicles of extra-terrestrial | | | | descriptions might help identify him. According to |
| origin. The MoD leaks, recent reports that former | | | | him, general stories about the creatures and |
| Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin saw a UFO | | | | crafts that made the incursions were common |
| from his aircraft in 2004 and statements from | | | | knowledge to many in the MoD. Recent |
| other Canadian officials which indicate UFOs are | | | | statements by Nick Pope may have helped to |
| alien spacecraft may be the reason for this latest | | | | validate those stories. |
| piece of disinformation. | | | | In November of 2006, Nick Pope (the former |
| While the MoD may believe that there is nothing | | | | head of the MoD UFO research project) told the |
| to this whole UFO thing, they might have | | | | British Press that his Country was vulnerable to |
| considered checking with at least two UK | | | | invasion or infiltration by extra-terrestrial forces. |
| Commercial Airline Pilots that recent saw one. | | | | Pope felt that the shutting down of UFO research |
| Captain Ray Bowyer, 50, of Aurigny Airlines, | | | | at the MoD Directorate of Defense Security has |
| spotted a "bright-yellow light" 10 miles west of | | | | left his nation unprepared to defend against Aliens. |
| Alderney at about 3pm during a flight from | | | | As a result, he resigned his position with the |
| Southampton while his aircraft was 30 miles from | | | | Directorate. On previous occasions he has stated |
| the island at 4,000 feet on Monday, April 23, | | | | that the MoD wasn't hiding anything from the |
| 2007. | | | | British Public. I wonder how he feels now? |
| Captain Bowyer: "It was a very sharp, thin yellow | | | | My own source at the MoD said that the |
| object with a green area. It was 2,000ft up and | | | | organization was of two minds when it came to |
| stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, | | | | UFOs. Many UK Military Officers feel there is |
| although I later realized it was approximately 40 | | | | ample evidence to believe that Aliens exist and |
| miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size | | | | are visiting the Earth without respect for national |
| of a [Boeing] 737. | | | | boundaries or security. That makes them a |
| "But it must have been much bigger because of | | | | national security concern. Others at the MoD |
| how far away it was. It could have been as much | | | | believe the entire matter is without merit and |
| as a mile wide." | | | | should be ignored. |
| While on approach to Guernsey, Bowyer noticed | | | | Time either heals all wounds or wounds all heals. In |
| a "second identical object further to the west". He | | | | this case, time has been a friend to my source. |
| said: "It was exactly the same but looked smaller | | | | Over the past twenty years since that interview |
| because it was further away. It was closer to | | | | with him, I have watched the UK Government |
| Guernsey. I can't explain it. At first, I thought it | | | | split hairs over UFOs. When the UFO incident took |
| might have been a reflection from a vinery in | | | | place near the Bentwaters Base and NATO |
| Guernsey, but that would have disappeared | | | | Facility in 1980, it was confirmation that UFOs are |
| quickly. This was clearly visual for about nine | | | | making incursions into security sensitive UK |
| minutes. As I got closer to it, it became clear to | | | | military facilities. The aftermath also revealed a |
| me that it was tangible. I was in two minds about | | | | clear split among military members and their |
| going towards it to have a closer look but decided | | | | hierarchy when it came to the subject of UFOs. |
| against it because of the size of it. I had to think | | | | Officially, it seemed that no one was really sure |
| of the safety of the passengers first. I'm certainly | | | | what happened at Bentwaters. Everything from |
| not saying that it was something of another | | | | Light House Beacons to reflective tree bark was |
| world. All I'm saying is that I have never seen | | | | rolled out to explain away the incident. But most |
| anything like it before in all my years of flying." | | | | of the people on the ground when it happened |
| Bowyer reported the incident to Paul Kelly, 31, an | | | | seemed convinced this wasn't an ordinary event |
| Air Traffic Controller on duty. Kelly indicated that | | | | involving a conventional explanation. As with |
| nothing appeared on his radar. However, ATC Paul | | | | Roswell and hundreds of other cases involving |
| Kelly received a "similar report" from a Blue | | | | military bases, aircraft, ships and UFOs, you had |
| Islands pilot en route to Jersey at the same time. | | | | the choice of believing those who were there or |
| Kelly explained that as the pilot went past Sark | | | | people writing reports about it later to suit there |
| he "described an object behind him to his left". | | | | own political and philosophical needs. |
| Kelly continued: "The description was very similar | | | | Even if you have spent just a few minutes |
| to Captain Bowyer's and they described it as | | | | researching UFOs and have an open mind, will not |
| being in exactly the same place. But they were | | | | be fooled by the MoD Report. As with other |
| looking at it from opposite sides." The other pilot | | | | self-serving documents like the 1997 Air Force |
| said that the UFO was 1,550 feet lower than his | | | | Report on the Roswell Crash and the recent UFO |
| aircraft, which was at 3,500ft. "Both pilots placed | | | | files released by France, these papers are |
| it at the same altitude", Kelly added. | | | | designed to create doubt and mask any other |
| In 1987, I published a phone interview that I did | | | | information government agencies possess about |
| with an official for the British Ministry of Defense | | | | UFOs and Aliens. |
| in The New York UFO Report. The official was an | | | | |