The UK Department of Defense has declassified data on UFO encounters that were recorded from 1986 to 1992
In the disclosed archives, there is a description of the case when, in 1991, while approaching London Heathrow Airport, pilots of an Alitalia plane noticed an object resembling a rocket that flew near their liner.
At that time, neither the military nor civil aviation representatives were able to determine exactly what it was.
After experts were convinced that the mysterious object was not a meteorological probe, not a rocket or a spacecraft, the investigation was closed.
In total, 19 computer files have been published on the website of the British National Archives, which contain documents on "UFO encounters" from 1986 to 1992.
Over the next four years, the British War Office intends to publish 200 files with documents of encounters with the unexplained.
Originally from Sirius
The declassified materials also contain a description of a case when a military pilot was ordered to shoot down a UFO that appeared on radar during a flight over East Anglia.
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In addition, you can read the instruction for pilots, which forbids them to photograph the mysterious crop circles - so as not to undermine the official line that the Department of Defense is not investigating this inexplicable phenomenon.
"Now everyone can look at authentic materials."
David Clarke. UFO expert
There are also less official documents in the archives of the military. For example, a letter from a woman claiming that she was from Sirius, and that her ship, where two of her fellow tribesmen were, was wrecked in Great Britain during World War II.
True, but not all
UFO expert David Clarke, who also lectures on journalism at the University of Sheffield, says the findings will shed light on little-known events.
However, according to him, fans of the conspiracy theory are sure that the military told only what they saw fit, but not the whole truth.
Nevertheless, he believes that the release of these documents makes sense: "Now everyone can look at the authentic materials that the Ministry of Defense receives every day and draw their own conclusions."