In 1996, the MoD commissioned a defense contractor to produce a comprehensive report on U.K. UFO sightings. UFO INTRIGUE: HOW THE UK DEALT WITH 'REAL-LIFE X-FILES'Code-named Project Condign, the report analyzed a database of sightings between 1987 and 1997 and was delivered to officials in 2000. Project Condign has been compared to Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force effort to investigate UFOs that closed in 1969. The Ministry’s DI55 department, which had secretly collected data on potential UFO sightings since 1967, closed at the end of 2000. Pope found the final Project Condign report disappointing.

Source: Fox News May 10, 2018 19:40 UTC