British "X-files" Released to Public

Smivs writes "Britain's Ministry of Defence has just released files regarding investigations into UFO sightings between 1978 to 1987. Over the next three or four years, 160 files will be handed over to the National Archives. The first group of eight files, one of which is more than 450 pages long, is available today. The Guardian newspaper details many of the events in question, some interesting and many just bizarre. A similar release of UFO files by France's national space agency last year attracted more than 220,000 users on its first day, causing it to crash. To avoid such problems, the National Archives is using an external hosting company which can add extra capacity as needed to handle the web traffic."

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Re:Awesome

[fracai]

The AF came out a few years ago and admitted to spreading rumors about aliens in Roswell and other places to cover up their experimental aircraft projects. {{Citation Needed}}

As an intelligence analyst with a top secret and above clearance (some of the classifications have names which are themselves classified) working in "the system", I'm pretty sure there's not much more. Then you're also aware that clearance isn't equal to having the password to "ze secret filez". There's also that whole "Need to Know" thing and your name is on the "Posts to Slashdot / Won't Get to Know" list.

What makes anyone think the US government is competent enough to pull off a conspiracy? The same thing that makes people think the US Gov was sneaky enough to pull off the 9/11 attacks, but not enough to hide the mountains of evidence.


Wow, I fit a 9/11 reference in, is this the new Godwin?

Re:parent poster is right

[peragrin]

then you are naive. Religions force people to believe that god created Man in his image and we are the center of the universe because of it.

that right there is 2 billion people who would rather attack and kill the aliens to prove they are still better than anyone else.