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Official papers have revealed the Ministry of Defence set up a
secret flying saucer working party in the 1950s.
The papers show the group involved experts from the Directorate
of Scientific Intelligence and the Joint Technical Intelligence
Committee.
It was established in 1951 after a spate of sightings in Sweden
and the US led to a "notable outbreak" of reports in Britain.
However, the scientists gave short shrift to the idea that the
earth was facing an alien invasion from space, dismissing the claims
as "optical illusions and psychological delusions" - or
just plain hoaxes.
"We consider that no progress will be made by attempting further
investigation of unco-ordinated and subjective evidence, and that
positive results could only be obtained by organising throughout
the country, or the world, continuous observation of the skies by
a co-ordinated network of visual observers, equipped with photographic
apparatus, and supplemented by a network of radar stations and sound
locators," they concluded.
"We should regard this, on the evidence so far available,
as a singularly profitless enterprise."
The papers, being made public for the first time, went on: "We
accordingly recommend very strongly that no further investigation
of reported mysterious aerial phenomena be undertaken, unless and
until some material evidence becomes available."
One of the cases they looked at was RAF Flight Lieutenant Hubbard
who twice claimed to have seen "a flat disc, light pearl grey
in colour, about 50 feet in diameter" flying low over Farnborough
at speeds to 800 to 1,000 mph.
The scientists drily noted: "We find it impossible to believe
that a most unconventional aircraft, of exceptional speed, could
have travelled at no great altitude, in the middle of a fine summer
morning, over a populous and air-minded district like Farnborough,
without attracting the attention of more than one observer."
Story
filed 10 January 2002
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