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In the darkest days of the Second World War,

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Britain stood alone against the terror

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of the Nazi Blitzkrieg.

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The nation rallied under the motto,

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keep calm and carry on to turn the tide.

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Today, the UK faces a new kind of blitz

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by an infinitely more powerful invader.

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There are certainly a huge number of UFO sightings

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in the United Kingdom.

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From the 1950s to the termination

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of the British Government's UFO project,

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around 12,000 UFO sightings were investigated.

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But the shocking details behind these incidents

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remain secret until now.

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In May 2008, the process to release

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the British Government's UFO files commenced.

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Some of these documents are largely blacked out.

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Is Britain facing an alien invasion?

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And does the government know more than it's saying?

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Join us as the explosive secrets of the real British X-Files

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are unsealed.

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A global effort has begun.

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Secret files hidden from the public for decades,

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detailing every UFO account,

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are now available to the public.

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We are about to uncover the truth

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behind these classified documents.

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Find out what the government doesn't want you to know.

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Unsealed.

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Alien files.

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Exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.

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Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 2012.

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It's the middle of a crisp fall night on the Scottish lowland.

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The Ritchie family is suddenly awakened

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by flashing lights in the sky.

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Looking out of the window,

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they are shocked to see a circular object

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hovering above their farm,

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where it remains for four hours.

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The family captures compelling video evidence of the encounter

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before it flies off.

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Authorities say they have no way of knowing

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what aircraft were in the area at the time.

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But how could one of the world's best air traffic authorities claim

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they don't know what's in their own airspace?

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Some experts believe the Ritchie sighting

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is just the latest in a long line of government cover-ups.

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People had long suspected that the Ministry of Defence

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was far more closely involved in UFOs

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than they were letting on in public.

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In 2008, the British government began releasing

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over 50 years of UFO files to the public.

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These are hundreds of files comprising in total

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tens of thousands of pages of documentation.

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When the government says that they're releasing information

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about UFOs, people should sit up and take notice.

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If just one of these sightings turns out to be the real thing,

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our world changes forever.

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Unsealed case file.

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The British X-Files.

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Tangmir, West Sussex, June 1950.

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An RAF pilot is flying a training exercise

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when his jet is passed in mid-air

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by what he describes as a

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shining, revolving, disc-like object.

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It's just one in a rash of UFO encounters

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reported by the Royal Air Force

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and Royal Aircraft Establishment.

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The mounting evidence becomes too much

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for the government to ignore.

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They launch a top-secret investigation

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into these reports, dubbed

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the Flying Saucer Working Party.

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Britain, it seems, is taking the UFO question

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very seriously.

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But when the investigation's final report is issued

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a year later, all claims are dismissed.

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concluded that there was nothing worth

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Despite its reassuring conclusions,

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these findings are never made public.

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Why did the government hide a report

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that offered comfort and certainty

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to a frightened public?

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in the dark?

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Topcliff, North Yorkshire, September, 1952.

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A NATO exercise is underway,

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simulating a Soviet attack

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when radar picks up an unexpected signal.

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Reports from the field describe

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a bright, fast-moving UFO

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able to change direction with impossible ease.

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RAF jets scramble to pursue it,

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but are unable to identify the mysterious craft.

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The incident spurs Churchill's government

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into open action.

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In 1953, the Air Ministry is ordered

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to investigate UFO sightings

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on a permanent, ongoing basis.

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A new UFO hotline is established,

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but as one unclassified memo states,

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desk staff are instructed to be

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politely unhelpful.

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The Air Ministry will continue this charade

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until the desk is taken over

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by the Ministry of Defense in 1964.

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The MOD has a different view of UFOs.

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as a clear and present danger

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to Britain's national security,

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and is about to launch

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an ultra-secret investigation of its own.

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its shocking findings are only now

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ready to be revealed.

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Welcome back to Unsealed Alien Files.

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Throughout the 1950s and 60s,

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Britain experienced an unprecedented wave

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of UFO sightings.

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This peaks in 1966 and 67,

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a time when the world is preoccupied

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with psychedelic visions of the great beyond.

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The American Space Program,

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and the war in Vietnam.

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the government's UFO hotline records

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nearly 400 reported sightings.

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The alien debate reaches Parliament,

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much to the amusement of government skeptics.

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Behind the scenes,

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one department is taking the matter very seriously.

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The Ministry of Defense has set up

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a science specialist team called DI55

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to investigate UFO sightings.

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It's so secret that the public won't know

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of its existence until the 1990s.

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The default position of the Ministry of Defense

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was to say nothing.

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The MOD is, by its very nature,

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an inherently secretive organization.

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There are few departments in government

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more secretive than the Ministry of Defense.

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It's a trend that would continue throughout the 1970s,

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and climax in the most infamous UFO incident

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in Britain's history.

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Unsealed case file.

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The Rendlesham Forest incident.

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Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, December 1980.

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Two American airmen stationed at nearby RAF Woodbridge

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witness what they at first believe to be a plane crash.

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John Borrows and Jim Paniston,

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together with some other military personnel,

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sought permission to go out

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into the forest to investigate

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what they initially thought was a crashed aircraft.

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When Borrows and Paniston approached the site,

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they found in a small clearing

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not a crashed aircraft, but a landed UFO.

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The incident, which occurred close to not just one,

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but two RAF bases,

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represents an unprecedented breach

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of high-security airspace.

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a social function was taking place at the base,

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where young airmen went up to the deputy base commander,

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Charles Holt, saluted and said,

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Holt is skeptical.

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Nonetheless, he goes to the landing site

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with a tape recorder and a Geiger counter.

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He picks up significant trace radiation readings.

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Here's the link.

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In the middle of his investigation,

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he notices mysterious flashing lights nearby.

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There it is again.

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Holt records a breathless description of his encounter.

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Half-moon shape,

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dancing about with color lights on them.

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a theme of coming down to the ground.

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I've listened to this tape,

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and Charles Holt is clearly describing

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how he and the man under his command

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see the UFO in the distance

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and then notice the UFO actually coming closer.

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It's definitely coming this way.

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is arguably Britain's most compelling

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and intriguing UFO case.

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Rendlesham raises serious questions in Parliament

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about UFOs and the nation's security.

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Again, the Ministry of Defense responds

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saying it sees no real threat

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and considers the matter closed.

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When the British X-Files are first made public,

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they include thousands of reported sightings

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from the years 1965 to 2009.

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But the files from 1980 to 82, including Rendlesham,

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are conspicuously missing.

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When questioned regarding their whereabouts,

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the MOD claims they were accidentally destroyed.

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Is it just a coincidence that records of UFO encounters

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before and after Rendlesham are now missing?

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Or is there another agenda at work?

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What more was in those files?

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It wouldn't be the last instance

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of sensitive UFO documents disappearing

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from the Ministry archives.

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Unsealed Case File, the Pitlocry Protocol.

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Pitlocry, Scotland, 1990.

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Two men walking in the countryside

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take photos of a strange diamond-shaped aircraft

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accompanied by two RAF jets.

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which doesn't print the story,

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but instead sends the evidence on to the MOD.

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the MOD takes the unusual step

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of briefing government officials about the incident.

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They are instructed to withhold details from the public

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and simply reassure them that the matter is being investigated.

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The photos, meanwhile, are tucked safely away in the MOD archive,

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in hope the story will simply go away.

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What was the Pitlocry object

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and why was it accompanied by two RAF jets?

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The MOD claims it was the test flight of a new aircraft,

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but why did they go to such lengths

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to keep the story from the public?

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Coming up, a former MOD insider

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This is Unsealed Alien Files,

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exposing the biggest secret on Planet Earth.

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Welcome back to Unsealed Alien Files.

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Over the past 50 years,

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Britain's UFO desk has recorded some 12,000 UFO sightings,

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but the Ministry of Defence has steadfastly refused to investigate them,

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all the while keeping their shocking details from the public.

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Compelling evidence from incidents in Randallsham Forest in 1979

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and Pitlocry, Scotland in 1990

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has mysteriously disappeared from the MOD archives.

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But at the start of the 1990s, the world is changing.

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Cold War secrecy is giving way to glassnost.

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Apartheid is cracking and will soon give way to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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And Britain's UFO desk is about to see the arrival of a man

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who will help lift the veil of government secrecy.

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His name is Nick Pope.

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When I was posted to the UFO project in 1991,

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I didn't really know what to expect.

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I had no prior knowledge or interest in the UFO phenomenon.

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To me, this was simply another government job.

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It isn't long, however, before Nick Pope realizes

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that UFO investigation is no ordinary job.

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Unsealed Case File, The Cosford Incident.

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The year is 1993.

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Two years into his assignment at the UFO desk

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sees Nick Pope approaching the job

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with a dedication severely lacking in his predecessors.

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We had a huge reach.

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I could call on investigative resources that would have put anyone else to shame.

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If we had a photo or a video,

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I could get Air Force technical specialists to analyze and enhance that imagery.

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He's already investigated many strange cases,

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but nothing could prepare him for the surreal events of March 30th.

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A UFO blitz.

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This was a wave of sightings throughout the United Kingdom

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that took place over a period of around six hours.

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The bizarre series of incidents climax with the appearance of a massive UFO

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flying over RAF Cosford and RAF Shaubery in the Midlands.

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There were several dozen witnesses, including an Air Force officer

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with eight years' experience, specifically of looking into the sky,

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judging things that he saw there, so you could not ask for a better witness.

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The man sees a massive triangular-shaped craft hovering 200 feet in the air.

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It emits a low-frequency humming sound

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and fires a narrow, laser-like beam of light down at the ground.

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The giant ship moves slowly toward the base,

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before suddenly deactivating its beam and darting off beyond the horizon

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much faster than any RAF jet.

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The encounter leaves the veteran airman ravelled.

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When I interviewed the witness the morning after this sighting,

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his voice was still shaking.

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Pope notes striking similarities between Cosford and Rendlesham Forest a decade before.

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The witnesses are military and also the fact that the shape of the UFO is essentially triangular.

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Though the sizes of the craft are very different.

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Were these UFOs constructed by the same alien race,

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was Britain under some kind of extraterrestrial surveillance?

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There are so many witnesses to the Cosford incident that the MOD is left with no choice.

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It is at last forced to admit that an unidentified object,

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or objects of unknown origin, was operating over the UK.

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In 1998, Prime Minister Tony Blair holds a closed-door meeting with MOD

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to be briefed on the risks of revealing sensitive UFO knowledge.

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He is told the ministry has only a limited interest in UFO matters,

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but remains open-minded to the existence of alien life forms.

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It takes another ten years before the British government at last opens its massive X-File archive in 2008.

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At the time, Britain braced itself for what it might learn.

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A short time ago, everyone had a little piece of the puzzle, but no one had put it all together.

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Now, with the declassification and release of the British government's file on this case,

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we can see the entire picture.

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Up next, stay tuned for the final revelation of Britain's X-Files.

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Will the UK government reveal what it knows about UFOs?

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This is Unsealed Alien Files, exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.

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In 2008, the British Ministry of Defence released 60 years of Britain's classified UFO X-Files.

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The documents expose decades of government misinformation on UFOs.

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There are also documents that show how consistently, over the years,

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the Ministry of Defence tried to downplay the extent of the UFO phenomenon

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and discredit any media outlets that ran serious stories about UFOs

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and portray anyone who investigated UFOs as cranks.

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Britain's X-Files have revealed a disturbing pattern, one that dates back to the Randall-Shem Forest incident.

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There are lots of rumours that there were nuclear weapons at Woodbridge.

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UFOs are interested on our missile sites, on nuclear weapons programme, on military bases.

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In 2009, the British government unexpectedly shut down the nation's UFO hotline,

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leaving terrified citizens nowhere to turn.

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Please note that it is no longer MAD policy to record, respond to or investigate UFO sightings.

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Therefore, it is no longer possible to leave messages on this number.

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Further details are available on our website.

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In the months following the hotline's closure, UFO sightings across the United Kingdom tripled.

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There's an old saying in the military, train hard, fight easy.

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There should be a contingency plan for alien contact and for alien invasion.

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The number one issue is defence.

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What is the possibility of a major alien event on the horizon?

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And is there anything Britain can do about it?

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Unsealed. Alien Files. Exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.