![]() ![]() ![]() "In the 1950s the next big leap in technology was thought to be a round craft that took off vertically, and it's intriguing to note that this is the same period when people began to report seeing 'flying saucers' in the sky," said David Clarke, author of a book called The UFO Files and a journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Many of the reports in the latest file describe UFOs as big, black and triangular, whereas reports from the 1940s and '50s tended to be about saucers or disc-shaped objects, they said. The release highlights how the reported shapes of UFOs have changed during the past half-century, the National Archives said. Press coverage of the incident led the RAF to look into the lights, later identifying some as stars and bright planets, and attributing the radar blip to a "permanent echo" created by a nearby church spire. A ship in The Wash, a bay near Boston, also saw the lights, and at the same time RAF air defense radars picked up the blip over Boston, the report said. It happened in October 1996, when the officers saw "strange rotating red, blue, green and white flashing lights in the sky," the report said. Police officers in Boston, England, and Skegness - both on England's east coast, caught a UFO on video at the same time that the Royal Air Force (RAF) detected an "unidentified blip" on their radar, the files show. They saw it both with the naked eye and through binoculars, with the report noting, "witness very skeptical of UFOs." They tracked the object on their radar for several seconds before it vanished, the report said. Other reports are about sightings by groups of people, including one from August 1997 in which five members of a fishing trawler in the North Sea reported seeing a round, flat, shiny object hovering in the sky. His car was left covered in dirt and dust, the report said. It said he got back in his car but started feeling sick, and he soon developed a skin condition for which he had to see a doctor. The man's mobile phone and car radio failed, the report said, and the man got out of his car and was able to walk through the light. It was not clear what happened to the jar and its contents.Īnother document, from January 1997, is about a man driving home through south Wales one night when he saw "a 'tube of light' coming down from the sky," which at first seemed like a "massive star" coming toward him. It "shot off and disappeared" after about three minutes, the report said, leaving behind a "silky-white substance" on the treetops, some of which he saved in a jar. It was silent but caused dogs in the neighborhood to bark, the report said. to see a large blue triangle-shaped craft hovering over his back garden. ![]() The files include a sighting by a man in Birmingham, England, in March 1997. Thursday's release is the largest so far, totaling more than 6,000 pages of material from 1994 to 2000. Made public Thursday, the files are the fifth collection of records about unidentified flying objects to be released by the Ministry of Defence and The National Archives as part of a project to open the files up to a wider audience. London, England (CNN) - A hovering Toblerone and a silky-white residue join near-misses and strange lights in the British government's latest release of its files on UFO sightings. Release highlights how reported shapes of UFOs have changed during past 50 years.Report: Man's car covered in dirt, dust after he saw "tube of light" from sky in 1997.Release of records is largest so far, totals more than 6,000 pages from 1994-2000. ![]()
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