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{"source_url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk", "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/10827105/rafs-x-files-ufo-sighting-britain-online/", "title": "RAF\u2019s \u2018X-Files\u2019 of reported UFO sightings over Britain to be released for the first time", "top_image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/NINTCHDBPICT000005236781.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1200&h=800&crop=1", "meta_img": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/NINTCHDBPICT000005236781.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1200&h=800&crop=1", "images": ["https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=752905198150451&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 0.9 1\"%3E%3C/svg%3E", "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/themes/thesun/images/sunmasthead_mobile.svg", "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/NINTCHDBPICT000005236781.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1200&h=800&crop=1", "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==", "data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 1.5 1\"%3E%3C/svg%3E", "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/themes/thesun/images/sunmasthead.svg"], "movies": [], "text": "CLAIMED sightings of UFOs reported to the RAF by terrified members of the British public are to be published online for the first time.\n\nThe RAF ran a UFO unit for five decades but chose to shut it down in 2009 after it concluded none of the reports sent in offered evidence of a potential threat.\n\n2 Claimed sightings of UFOs reported to the RAF are to be published online Credit: Workbook Stock - Getty\n\nPreviously, records from the unit were given to the National Archives, often initially classified before being released after a specific number of years.\n\nBut the most recent reports received by the RAF will be placed online, the PA news agency revealed following a Freedom of Information Act request.\n\nMembers of the public reporting alleged UFO sightings are now directed to their local police force.\n\nA spokesman for the RAF said that \"it had been assessed that it would be better to publish these records, rather than continue sending documents to the National Archives, and so they are looking to put them on to a dedicated gov.uk web page\".\n\n2 Drawing of an 'alien spacecraft' spotted by two US servicemen during an unexplained incident in the Suffolk countryside in 1980 Credit: Alamy\n\nA clearance process for the documents is currently under way before publication, which is expected to take place \"some time within the first quarter of 2020\".\n\nIn response to the FOI request, the RAF described the files it held as \"comprising entirely of correspondence with members of the public\".\n\nIt added: \"The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra terrestrial life and does not investigate UFO reports.\"\n\nNick Pope, who used to investigate reports of UFO sightings for the MoD, welcomed the move.\n\n\"Given the massive public interest in this subject, I'm pleased that these files will be released and made available online,\" he told the PA news agency.\n\n\"The MoD have previously claimed that all the files have been released - only to find additional ones - so this latest move is bound to start a few conspiracy theories.\n\n\"When I worked on the MoD's 'UFO desk' we didn't find definitive proof of extraterrestrial visitation, but there were so many bizarre and unexplained sightings that we didn't entirely rule it out.\n\n\"I'm glad the public are to be given further insights into our work on these real-life X-Files.\"\n\nThe Rendlesham Forest incident: Britain\u2019s most famous UFO sighting The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 over a series of at least two nights. On December 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases. Three men were sent out to investigate where two of them encountered a small, triangularshaped craft. One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object. He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, made sketches of the craft for witness statements. Two nights later Deputy Base Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team then encountered the UFO. He said later: \"Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I'm involved in the middle of something I can't explain.\"\n\nDespite an MOD investigation the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.\n\nEx UFO-chief claims he quit US government over alien encounter 'cover-up'\n\nTOP STORIES IN SCIENCE Investigation GAME SHAME YouTube flooded with hardcore sex videos from Roblox, a video game for KIDS TRACK DAY You can now race pals in Mario Kart on iPhone and Android for first time ever MURDER ON THE NILE Famous 'mistress' mummy Takabuti was KNIFED to death in her twenties LOGGED OFF WhatsApp to stop working on millions of phones this week \u2013 is yours on the list? SPACED OUT Elon Musk plots launch of 60 SpaceX internet satellites amid 'space junk' row\n\nIn other news, a researcher claimed earlier this month that the discovery of alien life was not only \"inevitable\" but also \"imminent\".\n\nOne Nasa scientist has admitted it's entirely possible that aliens have already visited Earth \u2013 and we simply never noticed.\n\nAnd, here are the mysteries we need to solve in order to prove the existence of extraterrestrials.\n\nDo you believe in extraterrestrials? Let us know in the comments!\n\nWe pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online Tech & Science team? 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