From: Philip Mantle <el51@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:17:00 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:59:33 -0400
Subject: 24,000 mph UFO


From: "Matthews" <matthews@zetnet.co.uk>
To: <bill.rose@virgin.net>
Subject: 24,000 mph UFO bullshit!
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 03:39:02 +0100

Both the Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers reported today
the existence of 'radar tapes' purporting to show the operation
of a UFO out to sea. The object was said to be flying at between
17-24,000 miles per hour.

Despite the Ministry of Defence position that UFOs are 'of no
defence significance' the story was said to have been leaked by a
'military source'. This was almost impossible to believe and the
story could be seen at best as a cover for the operation and
testing of secret military aircraft in the North Sea and over the
Atlantic.

Despite their sophistication, it is not true that the latest
Phased Array Radar systems would be able to identify the shape of
a UFO - even one '900 feet' in length at anything approaching the
speeds reported - a science correspondent should have known this
simple fact.

The MOD press office commented today that they knew of the
'source' for this story, that he could under no circumstances be
taken seriously and that he had put out similar fabrications in
the past. He is, apparently, an ex-MOD man with a grudge against
his former employer!

Moreover, the Daily Mail KNEW (!) that the story was nonsense
before they printed it and it will be noticed that this tabloid
has put out a great deal of alien/ET-type material in recent
months.

(The only sensible suggestion would have been that a comet with a
large tail had entered the UK Air Defence Region/North Atlantic
Ground Defence Environment - NADGE and had been tracked by
sensitive radar systems.
Apparently, this happens twice a month and DI55 have an interest
in tracking both comets and space junk as they enter the
atmosphere. In this respect, DI55 is undertaking a similar role
to that of Project Moondust.
Both DI55 and Moondust personnel have been linked with 'UFO'
research activities.)

What is really going on out there then?

Just last week a diamond-shaped wing-wing aircraft was spotted by
a trained observer off the Western Scottish coast near
Campbeltown not far from RAF Macrahanish, previously rumoured to
be a base of operations for a number of secret aircraft and still
a NATO standby base.

I have spoken to serving RAF personnel who have witnessed the
operation of large triangular aircraft from RAF Boscombe in
February 1997.

The secret history of advanced aircraft testing between the US
and UK goes back to at least 1957 where British pilots were given
unrestricted access to Groom Lake, Nevada (Bissell, 1996) during
early U2 flights.

The recent wave of European triangle sightings, possibly an
extension of the Hudson Valley operations of 1983-1988, began in
Belgium in late 1989/early 1990 where a large triangular
aircraft, based at Boscombe Down and perhaps also RNAS Yeovilton,
was reported by numerous credible witnesses as hovering at low
altitude.

In 1994 a secret US spyplane crash-landed at RAF Boscombe Down
and was widely reported in regional, national and specialist
media but denied by the MOD.

In 1993/4 an aircraft not unlike the US Advanced Airborne
Reconnaissance System 'Tier 3' aircraft was reported to be
operating over the UK as part of a series of transatlantic
demonstration involving the RAF and elements of the aerospace
industry. According to US black projects researcher Dan
Zinngrabe, a respected source, the aircraft cost over $150
million, used active stealth features and was able to hover
through the use of an advanced jet propulsion system which might
have been ducted 'fan-in-wing' technology....

At this time, Nick Pope, former Secretariat Air Staff 2a UFO
'expert' went public with a story that UFOs were of
extraterrestrial origin and this was undoubtedly part of the
cover story involving the MOD and the UFO community.....

Nick Cook, military aerospace expert for Jane's Defence Weekly,
has stated that the US is actively seeking to develop
'electrogravitics' propulsion systems.

(These are also being researched within British Aerospace as part
of a classified defence project).

So whilst we have twaddle being put out in the tabloids, some UFO
researchers are getting to grips with the reality of secret
military aircraft.

Please ensure that this information is passed on in order to
limit the inevitable development of wild rumours within the UFO
community based upon todays' tabloid fiction.

Yours for the truth,

Tim Matthews - Black Dawn - Military UFO Research.