British archives Released

 The British government has released over 2000 pages of files containing reports made by people who saw UFOs. The sightings range from incredible tales of little green men visiting the Wirral to corroborated accounts from policemen and pilots of Unidentified Flying Objects hovering above towns and cities. All are recorded on official forms, held by air bases and police stations, and compiled by the Ministry of Defence between 1978 and 2002.

Disclosed for the first time is a report from three experienced air traffic controllers who attempted to "talk in" a UFO which landed on the runway before them. The incident occurred on April 19, 1984, at an East Anglian airfield which was operating two runways called 22 and 27. In the control tower a senior air traffic controller  was supervising his deputy and an assistant. According to the report, the deputy was in contact with a light aircraft preparing to land on runway 22 when the Air traffic controller noticed lights approaching the other runway. The unidentified object came in at speed, made a touch and go on runway 27 then departed at terrific speed in a near vertical climb, according to the files. It was described as a "brilliant solid ball of light, bright silvery in color". The file noted that "witnesses do not wish to be identified in case their professional integrity is questioned". Others in the aviation industry also encountered unidentified flying objects, including a Sea King helicopter crew who tracked two objects on their radar for 40 miles, travelling at almost one nautical mile per second, in September 1985.

A couple in the Wirral claimed to have had an encounter of an altogether closer kind Claiming to have visited the alien's bases in Cheshire and seen their ship.They even claimed to have interacted with the aliens including one who was killed in 1984 by another alien race.

Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD for 21 years and was responsible for investigating the sightings, said: "Most of the UFO sightings here are probably misidentifications of aircraft lights and meteors, but some are more difficult to explain." 

These files can be found on www.ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/