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   From: jyanjyan@rocketmail.com   
      
   British X-Files Describe Secret UFO Encounters   
      
   By Maria Golovnina   
   August 5, 2010   
      
   LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain released hundreds of previously   
   secret "UFO files" on Thursday including a letter saying that Winston   
   Churchill had ordered a 50 year cover-up of a wartime encounter   
   between a UFO and military pilot.   
      
   The files, published by the National Archives, span decades and   
   contain scores of witness accounts, sketches and classified briefing   
   notes documenting mysterious sightings across Britain.   
      
   One Ministry of Defense note refers to a 1999 letter stating that a   
   Royal Air Force plane returning from a mission in Europe during World   
   War Two was "approached by a metallic UFO."   
      
   The unidentified author of the letter says his grandfather attended a   
   wartime meeting between Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower during which   
   the two expressed concern over the incident and "decided to keep it   
   secret."   
      
   The MoD subsequently investigated the case but found no written record   
   of the incident, the files say.   
      
   "... the MoD does not have any expertise or role in respect of   
   'UFO/flying saucer' matters or to the question of the existence or   
   otherwise of extraterrestrial lifeforms, about which it remains   
   totally open-minded," it said in a 1999 note.   
      
   Britain has been slowly releasing long-classified files related to   
   sightings of mysterious craft in the skies above its cities, compiled   
   and investigated by the MoD over past decades.   
      
   Some cases subsequently received rational explanations, such as   
   meteors burning up in the atmosphere, but many are unsolved.   
      
   One memo, dated 1997, contains reports of "sonic booms" and a   
   mysterious plane crash in northern England. No wreckage was found in   
   an ensuing search by the police and rescue teams.   
      
   Another incident refers to sightings of a "black triangular UFO" over   
   the home of the shadow home secretary in Kent in the late 1990s. An   
   investigation showed no breach of security.   
      
   In a case filed in 1995, the captain of a plane approaching Manchester   
   airport reported a near-miss with an "unidentified object," and a   
   witness on the ground separately provided a sketch showing a UFO "20   
   times the size of a football field."   
      
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