英國防部解密UFO檔案

Britain Thursday released 35 previously classified files documenting sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by the military and members of the public dating back to the 1950s。

The files contain around 8,500 pages which mainly cover the periodfrom 1997 to 2005 and include photographs, drawings and descriptions offlying saucer sightings, as well as letters the Ministry of Defense(MoD) sent eyewitnesses in response to their accounts。

Policemen, a soldier, a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and members ofthe public report sightings of objects including a "chewy mint shapedsolid craft" and aerial objects resembling a "ring," a "jellyfish" anda "silver voile spin top."

In one account a man said he believed he had been "abducted" byaliens in October 1998 after seeing an unidentified craft hover overhis London home and finding he had gained an hour of time in theprocess。

"It was a large cigar-shaped vehicle with big projectiles on each side like wings," he told the MoD。

"It seemed to have two very bright lights at the front and a whitelight flashing round and round underneath... As you can imagine, I feltquite shaken."

The MoD wrote to the man informing him that the object was probablyan airship, adding that the time he had gained was probably the resultof the clocks being put back one hour on the night of his closeencounter。

Another file released by the National Archives reveals how the RAFwas inundated with calls one morning in 1967 after residents ofsouthern England awoke to find six small beeping UFOs lying in aperfect line from the Isle of Sheppey to the Bristol Channel。

A bomb disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs, another was airliftedto the southeastern village of Aldermaston and both the army and theMoD's intelligence unit were mobilised for what was considered a real"alien invasion."

It was later discovered that engineering students at FarnboroughTechnical College had constructed and positioned the UFOs in a bid toraise money for charity。

"It does raise some questions about what really would happen if atany time in the future there was some kind of instant -- would we beprepared?" said David Clarke, author of "The UFO Files" and consultantto the National Archives' UFO project。

The files are available to download free of charge for one month at 。英國於本週四解密了35份軍方和民衆提供的有關不明飛行物(UFO)見聞的絕密檔案，這些見聞最早可追溯至上世紀50年代。

此次解密的檔案有近8500頁，主要來自1997年至2005年，包括UFO相關照片、圖畫、飛碟文字描述、以及英國國防部對目擊者的答覆信件。

目擊者包括警察、士兵、空軍軍官、以及普通民衆。有人聲稱見到“薄荷糖形狀的堅實飛行器”，還有人稱發現“指環”、“水母”狀不明飛行物，頂部還有“銀紗”迴旋。

在某起事件中，一名英國男子稱，他曾在1998年10月看到一架不明飛行物在他倫敦家中上空盤旋，隨後便遭外星人“綁架”，事後發現自己“又回到一個小時前”。

他告訴英國國防部：“那是一個巨型雪茄形狀的飛船，兩邊各有一個機翼狀推進器。”

“飛碟前端好像發出兩道亮光，一道白光圍繞底部閃個不停。你可以想象一下，我都嚇呆了。”

國防部給這名男子回信稱，他看到的可能是一艘飛艇，至於爲何時間停滯，可能是在他遭遇UFO當晚手錶慢了一小時。

英國國家檔案管解密的另一份資料寫道，1967年某天清晨，英國皇家空軍被電話鈴聲淹沒。英格蘭南部地區多名居民來電稱看到6架小型UFO。它們發出蜂鳴聲，排成一列，從謝佩島向布里斯托爾海峽飛去。

拆彈部隊炸燬其中一架UFO，另一架則被空運至東南部奧爾德馬斯頓村。當時英國陸軍和國防部情報部門都做好準備，應對“真正的外星人入侵”。

事後發現，這起惡作劇的幕後黑手居然是範堡羅科技學院的一名工程系學生，他希望籍此爲慈善機構募款。

英國國家檔案館UFO項目顧問、《UFO檔案》作者戴維·克拉克說：“這的確反映出一些問題，如果將來某個時刻突然遇到外星人，我們準備好了嗎？”

解密文件在英國國家檔案館網站上可免費下載()，時效爲一個月。