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British To Release UFO Files

Sean Stidman writes "Looks like the Brits are planning to release their secret files on many UFO sightings, including the famous Rendlesham Forest incident. These files should be ready for download by the end of this week, which I guess means by tomorrow. Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?"

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  1. Slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?"

    If the /. editors can refrain from duplicating this story tomorrow then nobody will remember the link.

    1. Re:Slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Good thing they never repeat submissions!

    2. Re:Slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Good thing they never repeat submissions!!

    3. Re:Slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      May I add that it's a good thing they never repeat submissions?

    4. Re:Slashdotting by Teknogeek · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wow. It's like that movie starring Bill Murray where everything kept happening over and over.

      What was it called again? Ghostbusters II?

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  2. In other news by paranoos · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bill Gates' birthday video will be available by the end of this week...

  3. Oh, I know this one! by OMGWTFBBQ · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are their servers going to be able to handle the load? No.

  4. Release UFO info? by Quasar1999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What they will finally admit that the royal family is actually from some distant star system? I knew it!

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    1. Re:Release UFO info? by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, sure they are.. if you consider Alpha Centauri distant....

      for gods sake mankind, it's only four lightyears!

    2. Re:Release UFO info? by tuxedo-steve · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would have thought the blue blood was a dead giveaway.

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  5. Incidents by VON-MAN · · Score: 2, Funny

    That "famous Rendlesham Forest incident" wasn't that the one with the UFO with the mysterious blue/red flashing lights. And with the red(!) flashing lighthouse a couple of clics away?
    Supposed the be the British "area 51", says a lot 'bout UFO loons :-)

    1. Re:Incidents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      This is the same lighthouse that was there before the incident, is probably still there, yet not generating any UFO reports? Does it emit radioactivity? Does it FLY? Cool, a flying lighthouse.

  6. This will never go through by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 5, Funny
    Even though the British government has been collecting information on its citizens for quite some time and violating their Constitutional rights to online privacy with their big government databases, they have nothing on the US.

    Do you think for a second that the NSA and the Alien Studies Administration (a secret, classified offshoot of the CIA) will ever let this come to light and compromise the Roswell coverup and numerous other incidents throughout the decades that have helped the government implant thought-tracking devices in the heads of key international figures in exchange for allowing the aliens to abduct a fixed quota of non-desirable citizens each year? Fat fucking chance! They are still out there, in their black helicopters and UFO-saucers, aiming their laser rifles at all the fuckers who think they have them beat. I can block their radiation brain wave modifiers with a special metal I concocted in my basement.

    I can't prolong this transmission because they are getting a fix on my location. Please, please, listen to me and believe me when I say that you need to steal this for the short time it is up before THEY realize it is there. Fight the power!

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    1. Re:This will never go through by shogun · · Score: 3, Funny

      in britain, the queen owns my ass. though in practice because of our civil war (yes we had one, and guess what its was before yours too!) she cant actually do very much with it.

      Oh? I woulda thought it was just because she's well over 70 now and wouldn't take all that much interest in it.

  7. Re:Does anyone think... by caluml · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm British and I have absolutely no idea what you mean by "redacted out".

    In other news, London is covered in fog all the time, it never gets hot in the UK, and Sherlock Holmes is close to catching Jack the Ripper.

  8. only if by malana-cream · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?

    only if it's an x-fileserver.

    1. Re:only if by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      actually it was.. but I suppose there's got to be a place in this world even for boring old shits like yourself.

  9. Nice touch from the Brits by product+byproduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Letting the Americans have one last turkey feast before announcing the alien invasion.

  10. Re:Nope, they won't handle it by frankthechicken · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shortly followed by the next UFO sighting of their server flying out of the server rooms window in pain and anguish. Actually what am I saying, when the hell was the last time you heard of a server room with a window, let alone enough people paying any attention to it at all to notify of a new UFO sighting.

  11. Alien Haiku by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    The aliens land,
    taking all the hot women.
    Slashdotters are greived.

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    1. Re:Alien Haiku by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny
      The aliens land, taking all the hot women. Slashdotters are greived.

      More likely, most don't even notice the difference (at least not the editors w. the repeating stories)

    2. Re:Alien Haiku by ToadSprocket · · Score: 3, Funny

      It never does fail,
      The rule is 'I' before 'E',
      Except after 'C'.

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    3. Re:Alien Haiku by sean23007 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't you mean:

      "Slashdotters barely notice, as the jpegs of said women remain in place." ?

      After all, most of you wouldn't ever notice if all the hot women in the world actually didn't exist. As a matter of fact, to them, you don't...


      Joking.

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    4. Re:Alien Haiku by joss · · Score: 3, Funny

      I suspect that for many slashdotters, being abducted by aliens and forced to procreate is about their best chance of getting hot women.

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  12. Actually, the truth is... by Cap'n+Canuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe it's not just other countries that have UFO-coverup stories; other planets have them, too.

    - This side of the river is intentionally left bank.

  13. Re:Does anyone think... by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 2, Funny
    In other news, London is covered in fog all the time, it never gets hot in the UK, and Sherlock Holmes is close to catching Jack the Ripper.


    Hey, two out of three isn't bad ;)

    *ducks*
  14. Re:obligatory X-files reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Don't you mean: The truth is out there, ol' chap!"

    Drop the stereotype and walk away slowly, with your hands behind your head!

    Andyboy_H

  15. Re:UFO != Alien Life by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    But why do these bystanders always live in trailer parks?

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  16. according to unnamed sources by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    the release will consist of ...
    - footage of brightly coloured aliens with CRT screens embedded in abdominal area
    - chemical analysis of 'moon' wenslydale
    - a police box

  17. Humorous anecdote... by httpamphibio.us · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I was a kid I overheard my dad talking about how my mom was applying for citizenship because she was an alien. Of course when I heard "alien" I assumed the outer space kind (or as I said back then, "out of space") because I had no knowledge of the foreign kind. The next day at school I told everyone I knew that she was an alien, it went over quite well. :)

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  18. Aliens *did* land in Britain... by mtec · · Score: 5, Funny

    but were successfully repelled by the local cuisine.

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  19. Re:Slashdot goes full bore on Thanksgiving! by nackrm · · Score: 2, Funny

    umm, where's the new content?

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  20. Re:Rendlesham Forest Disclosure by buswolley · · Score: 5, Funny
    Rendlesham Forest Disclosure:

    release from British Freedom of Information Act excerpt: "According to witnesses ---- ------ ----- there ------- ---- --- are --- ---- ---- -- no ---- such ---- ---- -- thing ---- as ----- ----- -- UFOs.

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  21. I knew it by WildBeast · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why they want to invade Iraq. Saddam Hussein is an alien.

  22. I wonder what happens by Sarin · · Score: 4, Funny

    if the ufo aliens post their story about earth on the intergalactic equivalent of slashdot, will earth be slashdotted by hundreds of millions of ufo's?

  23. Technology by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?

    Of course. They all run on advanced alien technology.

  24. an addition to their files by enos · · Score: 3, Funny

    The second they release their files, people are going to be reporting sightings of strange lights from where the server room used to be...

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  25. ho hum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    [b]2008[/b]: Aliens land on Earth. People of all races give up their petty bickering and fighting among and with each other and unite together in harmony to fight off the hostile Aliens.

    [b]2010[/b]: The Aliens from outer space have been beaten. The few remaining aliens jump in their spaceships and take off, vowing never to return. All of humanity rejoices over their united victory.

    [b]2011[/b]: Most of humanity returns to their petty nature, choosing to bicker and find problems with those who look different, act different, etc. Humans fight humans again and the whole ball of dung starts rolling again.

  26. [HAIKU] Get real. by jfisherwa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Grievance for women?
    Only on one condition:
    Natalie Portman.