UK Releases New UFO Files

The United Kingdom Tuesday released 8,500 new pages of its UFO records dating back to the 1950s.

The files, mostly from 1997-2005, include sighting reports with photos and sketches, correspondence between the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) with UFO witnesses, and documents from the only UFO debate in the House of Lords, and from a UFO debate in the United Nations.

The files are suggestive, but not conclusive proof of alien life.

One witness described a ship he saw over his home in London saying, "It was a large cigar-shaped vehicle with big projectiles on each side like wings. It seemed to have two very bright lights at the front and a white light flashing round and round underneath."

David Clark, consultant to U.K.’s National Archives UFO project and a self-described skeptic, said that the MoD destroyed a number of UFO files without explaining why.

“But in hindsight,” Clark wrote on the U.K. National Archives website, “by allowing the arbitrary destruction of swathes of intelligence records, MoD has helpfully provided a stick for conspiracy theorists to beat them with.”