UFO sightings - MoD 'blanked out' insults about reports
BBC NEWS
Page last updated at 12:29 GMT, Sunday, 21 February 2010
EXCERPT:
Defence officials' insulting remarks about the public had to be blanked out of government UFO files before they were made public, a memo has revealed.
The Ministry of Defence had agreed to publish its full archive of reported sightings in response to a deluge of Freedom of Information Act requests.
But the once-secret memo, published on its website, reveals "uncomplimentary comments" were edited out.
Comments on international relations and defence technology were also deleted.
Thousands of pages from the department's UFO files have been released through the National Archives since 2008, revealing details of reported flying objects and encounters with aliens.
The newly released memo to ministers and defence chiefs, dated September 2007, discusses how to make the largely "low security classification" information public.
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Too funny
BBC NEWS
Page last updated at 12:29 GMT, Sunday, 21 February 2010
EXCERPT:
Defence officials' insulting remarks about the public had to be blanked out of government UFO files before they were made public, a memo has revealed.
The Ministry of Defence had agreed to publish its full archive of reported sightings in response to a deluge of Freedom of Information Act requests.
But the once-secret memo, published on its website, reveals "uncomplimentary comments" were edited out.
Comments on international relations and defence technology were also deleted.
Thousands of pages from the department's UFO files have been released through the National Archives since 2008, revealing details of reported flying objects and encounters with aliens.
The newly released memo to ministers and defence chiefs, dated September 2007, discusses how to make the largely "low security classification" information public.
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Too funny
