Saucer scandal: UFO cover-up!(Citings) (Brief article)

• Author: Walker, Jesse

DRAWING on newly declassified documents, two journalism teachers have unearthed a bona fide UFO cover-up at the British Ministry of Defence, which went out of its way to conceal ongoing investigations of reported unidentified flying objects. No, the Brits didn't have a flying saucer and three reptiloid spacemen on ice beneath Big Ben. They just didn't want people to know how little the sleuths had actually accomplished.

The documents, uncovered by David Clarke and Andy Roberts of Sheffield Hallam University, depict an underfunded sky-watching unit dubbed D155. "These documents don't tell us anything about UFOs," Clarke told The Guardian, "but they do show how desperate the [Ministry of Defence has] been to conceal the interest which the intelligence services had in the subject."

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