MoD website admits UFOs exist

A previously "Secret - UK Eyes Only" MoD report into Unidentified Flying Objects is published online today.

The report examines UFO sightings collected over a 30 year period, to ascertain whether there is any evidence of a threat to the UK and to identify any potential military technologies of interest.

The MoD said study was not conducted to substantiate the existence of extraterrestrial life-forms but that it can confirm that no such evidence was found.

As for 'UFOs', or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the report concluded that while people reporting sightings are often genuine, rational explanations such as aircraft lights or natural phenomena including meteors forming "buoyant plasmas" can explain them.

The report concludes that none of the UFO reports the MoD received had any Defence Intelligence value and led to the decision in December 2000 that the Defence Intelligence Staff no longer had any need to receive UFO sighting reports.

Under Secretary of State for Defence, Tom Watson said:

"I am delighted that the Freedom of Information Act has meant that this once Secret report has been declassified and made public.

"In a department where lives are literally on the line and we can't release every document we have, this is yet more evidence of the MoD's commitment to openness."

According to the MoD “there is a real and enduring interest in Unidentified Flying Objects”. It said that by far the most popular topics of FOI requests has been UFOs, followed by recruitment enquiries; enquiries from staff; and historical events such as World War Two, the Falklands conflict and the Balkans.

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