Previously unseen documents reveal how officials at the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence handled the “UFO mania” of the late 1990s. In 1997, there was massive spike in interest around UFOs, fueled by the 50th anniversary of the purported UFO incident in Roswell, NM. Set against this backdrop, over-worked officials at the Ministry of Defence sought to cut their commitment to investigating UFO reports, the Guardian reports. MILITARY ENCOUNTER WITH UFO REVEALED IN 2015 FOOTAGEIn 1996, the MoD commissioned a defense contractor to produce a comprehensive report on UFO sightings, which were carefully described as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). The DI55 department, which had secretly collected data on potential UFO sightings since 1967, closed at the end of 2000.

Source: Fox News May 08, 2018 20:15 UTC