Secret UFO files opened

Published: 23 October 2008 y., Thursday

Britain's defence ministry makes public secret dossiers on reported UFO sightings.

 

The accounts include a reported near miss by the crew of an Italian passenger jet in 1991 as they were approaching London's Heathrow and an account by a U.S. fighter pilot who says he was ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object over Britain during the Cold War.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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