British "X-files" Released to Public 231
Smivs writes "Britain's Ministry of Defence has just released files regarding investigations into UFO sightings between 1978 to 1987. Over the next three or four years, 160 files will be handed over to the
National Archives. The first group of eight files, one of which is more than 450 pages long,
is available today.
The Guardian newspaper details many of the events in question, some interesting and many just bizarre.
A similar release of UFO files by France's national space agency last year attracted more than 220,000 users on its first day, causing it to crash. To avoid such problems, the National Archives is using an external hosting company which can add extra capacity as needed to handle the web traffic."
British 'X-Files'? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:UFO Expert (Score:3, Funny)
PG: The Government is out to get me man! They have traps everywhere for me.
OD: Wtf? Why would they spend millions or billions after you. You are just_another_dude!
PG: Exactly! They are all a bunch of crazies I tell ya. Why would they do that otherwise?
OD:
Re:British 'X-Files'? (Score:5, Funny)
You're confused. That's the British gay porn show.
Re:Awesome (Score:3, Funny)
Proof at last (Score:5, Funny)
Finally! Undeniable proof in the existance of Santa Claus! I knew it!
Re:British 'X-Files'? (Score:2, Funny)
You're confused. That's the British gay porn show.
Re:If you believe in alien spaceships on Earth... (Score:5, Funny)
Well fuck me silly.... (Score:4, Funny)
But all the good stuff is blacked out so what is.. (Score:3, Funny)
Highlight (Score:5, Funny)
Re:UFO Expert (Score:3, Funny)
The sad thing is I woke up lying in my own bed
Re:If you believe in alien spaceships on Earth... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:parent poster is right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:parent poster is right (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot 28 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:UFO Expert (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Take off the tinfoil hat (Score:5, Funny)
But you aint SEEN my ass, honey.
Re:UFO Expert (Score:3, Funny)
Re:parent poster is right (Score:5, Funny)
I Used to Get UFO Calls From the Public (Score:5, Funny)
Way back in a previous life, when I was a USAF Recruiter working out of the Reno, Nevada office on Moana Lane, I would occasionally get a UFO report from an excited member of the public. The recruiting office was the only number listed under U.S. Air Force in the Reno phone book because the nearest Air Force base was located across the Sierra Nevada mountains in Sacramento, California.
At first, I tried to explain that the local Air Force recruiting office wasn't the right place to report a UFO sighting, but then I realized what a gift these calls were.
From then on, whenever a UFO report came in, I got as excited as the caller, asking them for details, etc. Then I explained I wasn't the correct office to report UFOs to and then gave them the number to the Nevada Air National Guard's base operations office.
And I always told the caller to not take "no" as answer from whoever answered the phone.
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ASP (Score:4, Funny)
I always thought it stood for "Active Server Pages", silly me.
Re:UFO Expert (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Take off the tinfoil hat (Score:5, Funny)
One of the greatest moments in the history of TV occurred on a show I can't even remember now, though it was probably an old episode of the Daily Show.
The show featured three different and independent UFO crazies who all claimed to have had close contact with aliens, and it brought them together to tell their tales.
One of the guys claimed that he had been abducted and raped on a repeated basis. Not probed, raped, because the aliens intent was to impregnate him with their alien eggs, and I guess the human rectum was a viable implantation spot.
One of the other crazies, who if I recall claimed that she had seen aliens wandering around the woods by her house, chimed in to say something along the lines of "That's just silly; nobody is gonna travel half way across the galaxy just to have anal sex with you."
How do you know you're a true UFO crazy? When another UFO crazy tells you off for being too damn crazy! Oh man I about died that day; and it would have been okay because my life was complete.
Re:I Used to Get UFO Calls From the Public (Score:3, Funny)
Kidding, kidding...
Re:Proof at last (Score:3, Funny)
You've got me, which one is it?