THE MoD MAN AND SOME CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Daily Mail, UK
A Senior Ministry of Defence official has confirmed the existence of
UFOs, it was claimed yesterday.
Believed to be a member of the RAF, he was coaxed into appearing on a TV
documentary by investigator Jenny Randles.
In a programme to be shown on BBC2 next month, the official reveals how
some case reports of UFOs over Britain consistently defy rational
explanation.
Last night, a BBC source said the programme, UFOs - Britain's Secret
Files, would shock sceptics.
'It becomes apparent there are now people at the highest levels of the
Government who have not discounted the possibility of life on other
planets,' he added. The programme also features a former head of a
Government UFO monitoring unit confirming reports of craft moving at
huge speeds. 'We had radar reports of objects travelling at 4,000 mph
across the North Sea into British airspace - objects as big as
battleships,' he reveals.
An incident in which two fighter planes were scrambled over East Anglia
on the night of August 13, 1956 to intercept a UFO is investigated.
Surviving crew members insist they had a 'close encounter'.
A BBC spokesman said: 'The MoD finally concede that they remain "totally
open-minded" about extraterrestrial life forms.'
However, a Ministry spokesman poured scorn on the claims, adding: 'We
have one person in the RAF secretariat answering inquiries about UFOs -
that's it.'
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