British UFO Documents To Be Destroyed

popfi ^ | 3/01/2010 | Ron Hogan

[JoeProBono]

With the shuttering of the Ministry of Defense’s UFO investigation unit in December, it was only a matter of time before the UK decided they’d be better off just resigning all UFO-related matters to the dust bin of history. As it turns out, they’ve started that process a little early. According to a leaked memo, allfuture UFO reports will be destroyed after 30 days. By doing this, the Royal Air Force A) avoids having to release them under information requests and B) doesn’t have to turn them into the National Archives.

I can understand why you’d have to destroy old paper records, but in this day and age it’s easy to digitize and tag all that stuff with pertinent tracking information so it can be discovered later. After all, you never know what might turn out to be useful information and what might just be a page from the crank files, so who decides what information gets shredded and what doesn’t? What gets reported as a UFO might actually be a missing airliner.

[JoeProBono]

[Army Air Corps]

What ho, UFO...

[a fool in paradise]

Mmmmm, pizza.

[JoeProBono]

British government releases UFO documents; 6,000 pages of sightings

[ZX12R]

It seems to me, that any reports made about ufos has been a complete waste of time anyway. No real information has been gained, just the reports themselves.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2457602/posts

[evets]

Men in Black II...

[KrisKrinkle]

“...who decides what information gets shredded and what doesn’t?”

The Aliens amongst us of course.

[cajuncow]

“UFO reports will be destroyed after 30 days”

Darn, we’ll never get to see the real birth certificate now.

[count-your-change]

My organization, Unusually Fast Opossums, has been able to hack into the British files and...wait there seems to something ...wrong with my keyboard.....

[JoeProBono]

O RELY?

[count-your-change]

Take me to your leader.

[hoosierham]

It's because UFO sighting actually involve classified experimental miltary/government craft and they don't want any information publicized.

Move along,citizen,nothing to see here.

[JoeProBono]

[Adventure gal]

So, do we have any Freepers who have seen or had encounters with UFOs?

[JoeProBono]

>”So, do we have any Freepers who have seen or had encounters with UFOs?”

[Quix]

Quite a few, actually.

Probably more than a dozen or two who’ve said something privately or publically over the years.

If well surveyed national statistics are remotely accurate . . . the number is probably closer to 10,200.

However, I don’t keep a list of them.

[Quix]

If we count lurkers at 2 million unique visitors/month . . . the number would likely be around 60,000.