Thursday, July 12, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) releases another 25 UFO Files on top of the previously released British UFO Files or BX-Files.

Released by the National Archives under the Freedom of Information Act the files document not only specific UFO investigations but the correspondence builds a day to day picture of operations on the British governments UFO Desk. Also revealing what the UFO Desk officers actually thought of the UFO phenomenon and the possibilities of alien visits to Earth.

Life on the UFO Desk was more daily routine than it was alien chasing X-Files episodes according to the UFO Files. Nick Pope was the last MoD official to hold the post, a post that was abandoned by the MoD in the 2009 budget cutbacks.

Between 1950 and 2009 a special Ministry of Defense unit investigated more than 10,000 UFO “sightings” – a rate of one every two days.

The latest documents released by the National Archives consists of 25 files, more than 6,700 pages, that include UFO policy, parliamentary questions, media issues, public correspondence and of course, UFO sighting reports. Overall, more than 10,000 UFO reports came through the special Ministry of Defense unit from 1950 to 2009.

Among the stranger incidents included an investigation into a UFO sighting by a police officer at Chelsea football club and another that investigated a visit by three “men in black” to a person who reported a UFO encounter in Lincolnshire, east England.

Some of the documents relate to a series of aliens seen above West Wales in 1977. One hotel owner said a dome-shaped object landed “like the moon falling down” behind his hotel, from which two “silver suited ‘faceless humanoids’ emerged and began ‘making measurements'”.

Also present in the documents are the struggles for the UFO Desk Officers to understand the phenomenon. An officer from the late 50’s reports “If the sightings are of devices not of the earth then their purpose needs to be established as a matter of priority. There has been no apparent hostile intent and other possibilities are: 1) Military reconnaissance; 2) Scientific; 3) Tourism.”

This latest release of the documents comes after another FOI request by David Clarke, author of the book ‘The UFO files’ and a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. “These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall”, said Clarke.

“We now have a fascinating insight into some of the extraordinary reports and briefings which passed over the UFO Desk on a daily basis and how its officers used logic and science in their attempts to explain ‘the unexplained’,” he added.

The British UFO Files, an interesting view on life on the inside the Ministry of Defense. With so much material to go through conclusions are a long way off. Upon initial inspection no official answers to the UFO phenomenon are presented by the UFO Files, instead demonstrating that the British government is just as puzzled as everyone else by the mysterious phenomenon. Answers it seems won’t come from official sources any time soon.

Reference: National Archive UFO Files

Related Article: The BX-Files