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my name's Nick Pope formerly with the

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British Ministry of Defense since 1950

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the British government has received over

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10,000 UFO reports now responsibility

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for this subject rests with the Ministry

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of Defence whose remit is to look for

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evidence of any potential threat to the

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United Kingdom or anything else of any

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defense significance from 1991 through

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to 1994 I was the desk officer

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responsible for these investigations

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most UFO sightings turned out to be

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misidentifications of things such as

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aircraft satellites and meteors

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but in around 5% of cases no explanation

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could be found and these cases included

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incidents where reliable witnesses such

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as police officers and pilots reported

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structured craft performing speeds and

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maneuvers significantly in excess of

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anything that they'd seen military jet

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aircraft perform other cases including

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in this category involved UFOs tracked

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on radar and incidents where photos or

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videos were produced and where the mo DS

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technical experts found no evidence of

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any faking the mo D actually takes no

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position on the nature of the UFO

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phenomenon but I and some of my

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colleagues became privately convinced

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that whatever was was going on there

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were serious defence national security

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and flight safety issues involved in

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March 1993 I investigated a case where a

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UFO was seen by about 60 witnesses

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including military personnel at two air

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force bases witnesses included a patrol

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of Air Force police and a meteorological

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officer with eight years experience now

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this latter witness described a

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triangular-shaped craft

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moving in an erratic way it was midway

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in size between a c-130 a transport

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aircraft and a Boeing 747 he said it was

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emitting a low-frequency humming sound

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and he said it moved slowly at first

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before accelerating away to the horizon

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many times faster than a military jet my

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head of divisions briefed to the

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assistant chief of the air staff

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concluded quote in summary there would

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seem to be some evidence on this

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occasion that an unidentified object or

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objects of unknown origin was operating

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over the UK unquote the case file

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published on the mo DS website also

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mentions related inquiries from the US

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authorities asking if the UK had a black

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program that might explain some UFO

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sightings involving large triangular

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shaped craft now that's interesting

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given the US government's public

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position that UFOs are no longer

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investigated Britain's best-known UFO

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sighting occurred in 1980 and involved

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United States Air Force personnel from

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two military bases in the UK they were

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multiple witnesses and an object was

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seen to land in a place called

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Rendlesham forest a geiger counter was

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used to take radiation readings at the

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landing site and the assessment

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undertaken by the mo DS Defense

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Intelligence staff stated that the

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levels recorded seemed quote

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significantly higher than the average

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background unquote we're fortunate to

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have two of the witnesses to these

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events here today and I'd like to hand

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over to one of them now so he can give

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you some specifics thank you