Britain Releaases Cache of UFO Files

Friday, 04 March 2011 | by Pat's Picks

The British government has just released a cache of secret UFO files it’s been gathering for decades. Some interesting stuff is included, says the New York Times, but “sadly, nothing in the material appears to prove without a doubt that we are not alone.” The files chronicle loads of observations from British citizens who claim to have seen “peculiarly flashing lights, oddly shaped or strangely behaving aircraft or things that just looked as if they did not belong there.” Harry Potter, anyone?

My favorite excerpt is this:

“In one letter from 1998, a man from West London wrote to announce that after observing a strange craft hovering over his garden, he awoke the next morning to find that he had undergone a period of unexplained time. Could he have been abducted and fallen into an alien space-time vacuum? No, an official wrote back: that was the night the clocks had been turned back an hour.”