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UFO study finds no sign of aliens


The 400-page report was kept secret for six years


Alleged UFO sightings
A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has
concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms.
In spite of the secrecy surrounding the UFO study, it seems citizens of planet
Earth have little to worry about.

The report, which was completed in 2000 and stamped "Secret: UK Eyes Only", has
been made public for the first time.

Only a small number of copies were produced and the identity of the man who
wrote it has been protected.

His findings were only made public thanks to the Freedom of Information Act,
after a request by Sheffield Hallam University academic Dr David Clarke.

The four-year study - entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK - tackles
the long-running question by UFO-spotters: "Is anyone out there?"

The answer, it seems, is "no".

HAVE YOUR SAY
Never in thirty years of working out of doors at all hours have I seen
anything that cannot be explained by a few seconds reasoned thought

Barry P, Havant, UK


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The 400-page report puts it like this: "No evidence exists to suggest that the
phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of
natural physical forces."

It adds: "There is no evidence that 'solid' objects exist which could cause a
collision hazard."

So if there are no such things as little green men in spaceships or flying
saucers, why have so many people reported seeing them?

Well, here is the science bit.

"Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects and, possibly some
other less-known effects are responsible for some unidentified aerial
phenomena," concludes the report.


Meteors may have been responsible for some UFO sightings

"Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost
certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the
atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.

"They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and
electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make them
unique to the majority of observers."

People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade
that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a
possible medical explanation.

"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or
person," states the report.

"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the
temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and
later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect,
description of what is experienced."

There are, of course, other causes of UFOs - aeroplanes with particularly bright
lights, stray odd-shaped balloons and strange flocks of birds, to name but a
few.


The report admits its findings will not persuade everyone

Yet, it will be difficult to convince everyone that there is a rational
explanation for all mysterious movements in the sky.

Some UFO-spotters believe governments will always cover up the truth about UFOs,
because they are afraid of admitting that there is something beyond their
control.

It is not clear how much time and effort the MoD has spent looking at the skies
in recent years, but it appears there are no plans for an in-depth UFO report
like the one written in 2000.

A MoD spokesperson said: "Both this study and the original "Flying Saucer
Working Party" [already in public domain in the national Archives] concluded
that there is insufficient evidence to indicate the presence of any genuine
unidentified aerial phenomena.

"It is unlikely that we would carry out any future studies unless such evidence
were to emerge."

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