Included in this latest batch is a letter sent from the former Chief of Defence Staff, Lord Hill Norton, to then Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine.
The defence chief was writing in response to the dismissal officially of interest in the infamous events at Rendelsham Forest in Suffolk of December 1980.
His letter - remember this is from the most senior of defence staff to one of the most senior members of Margaret Thatcher's Government - read:
"My personal view, having considered the fragmentary but compelling evidence brought to public knowledge by the media, is that the case cannot be disposed of in these rather perfunctory terms. If the report made by the USAF authorities in January 1981 is accurate, there is evidence that British airspace and territory are vulnerable to unwarranted intrusion to a disturbing degree. If, on the other hand, the report of the deputy base commander must be dismissed ... then we have evidence – no less disturbing, I suggest – that a sizeable number of USAF personnel at an important base in British territory are capable of serious misperception, the consequences of which might be grave in military terms."
Fascinating reading. Much else has been summarised throughout the mainstream media - a good example of which is contained in this report from The Independent. There's also a devoted sub-section on the Daily Telegraph website.
What makes this story even more interesting is the recent furore and the ongoing scandal of the proposed extradition of 'computer hacker' Gary McKinnon. The Aspergers sufferer faces being sent for trial to the US after he allegedly hacked US computer systems looking for evidence of alien life.
Much of the media comment of McKinnon's case has argued for him to NOT be extradited but at the same time dismissed him as a fruitcake eccentric looking for little green men which so obviously do not exist.
However, here we have a Chief of Defence writing to the Minister of Defence in Margaret Thatcher's Government saying something far more interesting and thought provoking than that.
Wonder how much correspondence on UFOs has passed over the desk of Gormless? Not that we expect him to be interested in things that are out of this world. He's clearly already too far off the planet already.
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