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THE INDEPENDENT FRIDAY 4 MAY2QQ7 FRIDAY 4 MAY20Q7 THE INDEPENDENT HOME 32 33 G)Gw(EV t.V MM i yS iff JEtfWf Ill JVC 30 61 Hard Mm CaMordtr 34k optical 800bc digital zoom LCD colour mmi bnqpjt stoMsv night nconiing 3.99 B)l mm JVC Is the truth really out there? At last, the MoD opens its files 30 6B HardDrlw Caacorder 32x optical 800k digital zoom 1 Megapad still photo mode I Rendesham Forest, Suffolk, 1980 This incident concerned a sighting of a "glowing" triangular object by I US Air Force police in Rendle-I sham Forest near RAF Wood-I bridge. In the early hours of 27 December 198Q a number of US Air Force men saw the i object hover In the darkness, pulsating with light and send-1 ing nearby farm animals into a The MoD's response was a top secret memo that I dismissed the event In terms Of a threat to national security. Somewhere over south- em England, 1994 The crew of an Air France flight from Nice to London saw a giant disk that seemed change shape and colour. After a i minute or so it disappeared, Devon, October 1967 Sgt Roger Willey and Pc Qiffofd Waycott were driving along a country lane when they were dazzled by bright white Tights in the sky There have been many theories including spy ships sent by the Soviet Union. Winchester, Hampshire, November 1976 Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt claimed they were visited by aliens while driving on a country lane.

They claim their car suddenly shook and then veered off the road into a grass verge. The car was subject to electrical interference as the engine roared. They spotted what appeared to be a cigar-shaped craft with three entities behind a window in the object As they watched a bearded humanoid wearing a silver suit came outwalked to the car and looked in on the occupants. He then disappeared, and the couple were able to drive off. Dechmont, West Loth-fan, November 1979 Bob Taylor's alleged encounter is the only recorded UK case officially investigated by police.

Mr Taylor said he came across a large spherical object in a woodland clearing. He claimed two rou nd objects with protruding metal spikes attached themselves to his trousers and began to drag hTm towards the UFO. The next thing he knew he was coming round lying face down on the grass. The police ease is still open. I hdudes quid transfer docking station iymikSHM 5 ymm tt3.fi HMmSSEl mfcfCodfc 380571 fslTlfilll? 389 FREE Carry Case and Battery "Unidentified object seen.

Bright, yellow, thin, stationary. Size of 737. Second object same shape seen behind first at some It could have been as much as a mile, wide," Not the words Of a local leaving the Dog and Duck at throwing out time, but the most recent report by a British pilot of a sighting of an unidentffied tying object It was logged by Captain Ray Bower, a 50-year-old pfloW22 years esqpmence, who made the observation during a flight over the Channel Islands last week. If the truth really is out there, then Britain's growing army of UFO hunters hope that Capt Bower's report and thousands of other sightings of cigar-shaped objects and strange, flashing lights will eventually prove it. Bombarded by requests to see the evidence, the Ministry of Defence is to release Britain's official documents of UFO sightings, so the public can judge for them-selves whether we are being visited by alien life forms, A spokeswoman for the MbD said: "Vfe are receiving a lot of requests at the moment to see this information so we have decided to put the reports on our website.

But to give this some sort of context we have only ever been interested in reports that have a defence, perspective." The. decision will be la blowto Britain's conspiracy industry which has found the MoD'fc secrecy over UFO sightings compelling evidence of a cover-up. It was only recently that the Offer ends Monday 7th May Last week, Captain Ray Bower saw strange lights in the sky. Now he, and thousands of others, may be allowed to discover the cause. By Robert Verkaik 30 61 HardDrlw CaBcordfr 40k optical 2000 ttgrraj zoom 2.5' LCD colour screen Image stdbftsor and night recoralng Mri tYiAiit Cuk 3 )m Eff.W 5 )m EtTf.M bote tail W1676 of the safety of the passengers first" Capt Bower is not alone.

Thousands of people have reported sightings to MoD In 2004, the most recent documents available, the MoD's UFO unit received 88 reports. But it is the dispassionate observations of pilots and military personnel which the MoD tends to take most seriously. Many of these reports have been transferred to the National Archives Office in Kew. Britain's most famous UFO sighting was at Rendlesham Forest, near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1980-The "Rendlesham Fileconcernsasightingof a "glowing" triangular object by US Air Forcepolice. The documents had only previously been made available to about 20 people who used the American Freedom of Information Act to gain access to them The report says that in the early hours of 27 December 1980 a number of threat to national security.

According to his local newspaper, Capt Bower spotted abrightyellowlight 10 miles west of Alderney while his plane was about 30 miles from the island and at "It was a very sharp, thin yellow Object with a green area. It was up and he said, "I thought it was about 10 miles away, al-thoughllater realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a 737 But it must have been muchbig-ger. It could have been as much as a mile wide." As he continued his approach to Alderney, he saw a second object further to the west "It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was further away," he said- "It wag closer to Guernsey As I got closer to it was tangible. I was in two minds about going towards it to have a closer look but decided against it because of the size of itlhad to think US Air Force men witnessed the object hover in the sky, transmitting blue pulsating lights and Sending nearby farm animals into a "frenzy.

In a report entitled "Unexplained Lights, USAF Lt Col Charles I Halt, the deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters, adjacent to Woodbridge, told how he witnessed an object emitting a. "red sun-like light" moving through the trees The MoD's response read; "No evidence was found of any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, and no further investigations were carried out Twenty seven years later the MoD still remains to be convinced of the case for visits by alien life forms. Capt Bower has also kept an opened mind about his experience. "I'm certainly not saying that it was something of he said. "All Ym saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying." Order direct 08705 425 425 or comet.co.uk Captain Ray Bower V.

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