By Reuters
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A claim by the
British Ministry of Defence that UFOs have no defense significance is "designed
solely to keep Parliament, the media and the public off our backs," according to
former MoD UFO Desk administrator Nick Pope.
Pope's startling statement was in response
to the MoD's release last week of what it says is its final batch of UFO
documents. Official MoD spokesmen and one self-styled UFO expert, David Clarke, claim
that the MoD found no evidence of a UFO threat to the UK and, therefore, closed
its UFO Desk. The subsequent, widely-publicized declassification of its UFO
documents—the implication being that nothing remained hidden—was intended to
demonstrate the MoD's public transparency on the UFO issue.
In reality, Pope says, "the UK's Freedom
of Information Act contains wide-ranging exemptions covering areas such as
defense, security and intelligence" and the newly-available documents had
already been "judged to be unclassified" before their release.
Regarding David Clarke, Pope says, "Some people
would probably use the term 'useful idiot' to describe his parroting the MoD 'no
defense significance' sound bite."
These and other provocative comments by
Pope have just been published in an article by
UFOs and Nukes researcher Robert Hastings, who discovered a credible UFO
involvement in the famous Rendlesham Forest/RAF Bentwaters case, which occurred
in Suffolk, England.
Hastings interviewed the two U.S. Air
Force air traffic controllers on duty at Bentwaters during a week of UFO
activity there, and the nearby forest, in December 1980, who say they tracked a bona fide UFO on
radar and saw the object hover—it appeared as an orange-colored sphere—before it
raced away.
Hastings says that the UFO later hovered
near the USAF's Weapons Storage Area (WSA), containing tactical nuclear bombs,
and directed laser-like beams down into the facility. Bentwaters' former deputy
base commander, now-retired Col. Charles Halt, first acknowledged the dramatic incident
in 1991, saying that he had heard frantic radio chatter from Security Policemen
at the WSA, describing the UFO and the beams, while he was investigating reports
of strange lights in nearby Rendlesham Forest.
Hastings says, "If the incident at the WSA
actually occurred, and it appears that it did, then UFOs do indeed pose a
defense threat to the UK."
SOURCE Robert Hastings
