Government Reports (UK)

Flying Saucer Working Party:

The Ministry of Defence has always denied involvement in any official study of the UFO phenomenon. But files recently discovered in Government archives reveal how in 1950 the MoD set up a secret committee of scientists and intelligence experts to investigate sightings of ‘flying saucers’. The report they produced for Winston Churchill’s Government remained secret for 50 years.  Read more here.

Condign Report:

The British Government have long denied they have carried out any secret study of the UFO phenomenon. But they were wrong.

Between 1996 and 2000 the Ministry of Defence paid a security-cleared expert working for the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) to carry out a study and draw up a secret report on the potential threat posed to the UK by “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” – UFOs.

The report asserts “that UAP exist is indisputable...[they] clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile – either manned or unmanned.” But the study attempts to explain the phenomena and assesses the security risk they may pose to the UK – including potential hazards to air traffic.  Read more here.

National Archives:

A basic catalogue of the first 8 files released en-masse by the MoD on 14th May 2008 has now been completed and an overview of the file contents can be found here.

Government Reports (USA)

Condon Report:

It is the opinion of the Committee that the present Air Force program dealing with UFO sightings has been well organized, although the resources assigned to it (only one officer, a sergeant, and a secretary) have been quite limited. In 19 years and more than 10,000 sightings recorded and classified, there appears to be no verified and fully satisfactory evidence of any case that is clearly outside the framework of presently known science and technology.  Read more here.

Project Blue Book:

September 10th, 1951 marked a series of sightings that would prove to be the impetus for a serious reevaluation of the Air Force investigation into the UFO phenomenon. This would lead directly to the establishment of Project Blue Book.  Read more here.

Famous UFO Cases (UK)

Rendlesham:

Did the MOD investigate the incredible account of events in Rendlesham forest over the Christmas holiday period of 1980 reported by Lt Col Charles Halt in his famous memo? If so, did they interview the USAF personnel who witnessed the phenomena? Were the UFOs tracked by radar? And what conclusions did the MOD reach? None of these questions could be answered definitively in 1980 given the stifling influence of the UK’s draconian Official Secrets Act. All inquiries at Whitehall came up against a wall of secrecy.  Read more here.

Berwyn:

In 1958 author Gavin Gibbons wrote By Space Ship to the Moon, a sci-fi book which featured a UFO landing on the Berwyn mountains in Wales. Sixteen years later, in 1974, those same mountains would again be the focus for a story involving a downed UFO. But this time, some said, the story was for real.  Read more here.

Cosford:

"It seems that an unidentified object of unknown origin was operating in the UK Air Defence Region without being detected on radar; this would appear to be of considerable defence significance, and I recommend that we investigate further, within MOD or with the US authorities". - Nick pope.  Read more here.

Welsh Triangle:

The West Wales flap of 1977 is second only to the Warminster “Thing” in British UFO history. Documents released in 2005 have revealed how a secret military investigation was launched into claims that alien craft and their tall humanoid occupants were taking a particular interest in the Welsh coastline.  Read more here.

Bonnybridge:

The small Scottish town of Bonnybridge not far from Edinburgh, bills itself the UFO capital of the world. According to its colourful local councillor, Billy Buchanan, almost half of the town’s residents have seen a UFO at one time or another and on a yearly basis, around 300 sighting reports are received from Bonnybridge and its environs – an area stretching from Stirling to the outskirts of Edinburgh which has been dubbed the “Falkirk Triangle”.   Read more here.

Warminster:

The genesis of the Warminster UFO phenomenon is described in The Warminster Mystery, the first book written by Arthur Shuttlewood on the subject of the Thing. When the phenomenon began, Shuttlewood was a journalist with the Warminster Journal, the local newspaper. It was through this position that Shuttlewood first came into contact with the phenomenon.  Read more here.

NASA:

Brookings:

On December 14, 1960, The Brookings Research Institute in Washington released a report prepared during 1960 for NASA entitled "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs", including a section entitled "Implications of a Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life". (Commonly referred to as "the Brookings Institute report".) The report discusses effects of meeting extraterrestrial life.  Read more here.

Apollo - we did go:

Moon Base Clavius is an organization of amateurs and professionals devoted to the Apollo program and its manned exploration of the moon. Our special mission is to debunk the so-called conspiracy theories that state such a landing may never have occurred.  Read more here.