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The force was asked in a Freedom of Information request how many 999 and 101 calls it had received during 2015, 2016 and 2017.

By BBC News 2-4-18

It reported three calls mentioning "alien" and three referencing "UFO". Two of the reported sightings took place in 2015 and four in 2016.
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In 1896, newspapers throughout the United States began reporting accounts of mysterious airships flying overhead. Descriptions varied, but witnesses frequently invoked the century’s great technological achievements. Some sources reported dirigibles

By Greg Eghigian smithsonian.com 2-1-18

powered by steam engines. Others saw motorized, winged crafts with screw propellers. Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.

As technologies of flight evolve, so do the descriptions of unidentified flying objects. The pattern has held in the 21st century as sightings of drone-like objects are reported, drawing concern from military and intelligence officials about possible security threats.

While puzzling over the appearance of curious things overhead may be a constant, how we have done so has changed over time, as the people doing the puzzling change. In every instance of reporting UFOs, observers have called on their personal experiences and prevailing knowledge of world events to make sense of these nebulous apparitions. In other words, affairs here on earth have consistently colored our perceptions of what is going on over our heads.
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The CIA published a trove of declassified documents online for the first time this week — including reports from as far back as the 1940s on topics like the Cold War, thousands of pages of daily briefings from two presidential administrations and eerie, unexplained UFO sightings.

By Joshua Rhett Miller The New York Post 1-18-17

Roughly 930,000 documents — more than 12 million pages in all — were posted Tuesday to the spy agency’s Reading Room, a searchable database of the documents that was previously only available to the public at the National Archives in College Park, Md.

“Do UFOs fascinate you?” the site reads. ...
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To this day, people swear there is something eerie about Rendlesham Forest - only last year, dog walkers claimed their pets became ill from walking in the area. In 1980, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle which was ‘dripping molten metal’ - and witnessed a light like a ‘huge red eye’.

By Rob Waugh www.yahoo.com 4-15-16

The Rendlesham Forest Incident - described as ‘Britain’s Roswell’ - still fascinates UFO fans, two decades on.

But have aliens really visited Britain? Here are five incidents which UFO fans claim is proof that extraterrestrials HAVE visited our country - and could still be here now. [...]
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TO CELEBRATE the new season of X Files, we researched the reported UFO sightings in Central Queensland. This information was obtained from the UFO Research Queensland Incorporated database.

Melanie Plane www.themorningbulletin.com.au 3-29-16

UFO Research Queensland is a Brisbane based voluntary, non-profit association established in 1956 to receive, research and record sightings.

A Brisbane based researcher is documenting the history of sightings of UFOs in Queensland and would like to hear from anyone who may have had a personal UFO sighting, past or current, or know of such reports from their local area. [...]
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People in cities and towns near Siberia's Lake Baikal have reported seeing a mysterious bright object flying slowly through the sky, and posted videos and photos online to corroborate their accounts, Russian news reports said Wednesday.

The Moscow Times 2-18-16

The reports of “UFO” sightings poured in from scores of people in the Irkutsk region, near Lake Baikal, the local branch of the state-run Rossia-1 television network reported.

The object resembled a meteorite, but seemed much brighter and was moving too slowly, witnesses were quoted as saying.

Sergei Yazev, a senior research scientist from the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics who watched the videos, said the “slow velocity is extremely uncharacteristic for a comet or a bolide.” [...]
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There have been numerous 'sightings' of UFO in the skies of North Wales over the years. The UFO crash the at Berwyn Mountains in 1974 has been much reported, but there have been various sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects across North Wales.

By Daniel Bissett www.dailypost.co.uk 2-12-16

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In the spring of 1964, a woman walking her dog in the grounds of Denbigh Castle reported finding her pet cowering in a beam of light from the sky. When she tried to pick her dog up, her arm was burnt by the light and the animal's hair was singed too. Neither suffered long-term damage.

In the summer of 1974, Two women leaving Denbigh Hospital witnessed a round, bright orange light in the sky, which subsequently rocketed away at high speed. Similar occurrences were reported on the Denbigh Moors in 1984 and 1994. [...]
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Dt: 1957 December 18
Lo: Sarasota, Fla.
Tm:
Ty: Obj., wht;
S.A.: TV SET
So: UFO EVIDENCE (1964)
Dtl: TV set exhibt. interf. as obj. glided overhead

The minimalist verbatim text comes from a single index card wedged inside a metallic filing box large (or small) enough to contain a softball. Actually, there are two of these little boxes, each packed with so many index cards De Void doesn’t bother to count them all. Each card summarizes a single UFO case. Each case engages the same theme — how the local environment responds to electromagnetic field effects. The chronology begins with a U.S. warplane experiencing engine problems as it encounters a UFO over Burma in 1943. The final entry concludes on the evening of Jan. 3, 1991, near Barcelona, when a ground-level UFO apparently kills the lights and engine of an automobile.

The reason for revisiting the modest UFO archives of former NASA electrical engineer John Reiss is because the entire searchable database of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book is finally in the public domain in a no-fee and accessible format, thanks to John Greenewald at The Black Vault. You want to see if the Sarasota case, which occurred here nearly 60 years ago, was logged with the Air Force. A few simple clicks, a little scrolling and nope — not there. Which isn’t surprising. A UFO passes over a single house and messes with the antenna reception. So what.

De Void has briefly noodled around in the more cumbersome earlier versions of the declassified Blue Book files before, and found no reason to linger, given that most of the material is so colorless and convoluted it bored the snot out of me. Plus, as UFOs and Nukes author Robert Hastings is quick to point out, the 22-year Air Force study was largely a public relations scam:

“BB documents,” he states in an email, “are of potential value if one just focuses on the data collected — the sighting witness(es') comments — and not on the recording officer's conclusions. It is well known that, after 1952, BB's marching orders were to debunk as many of the cases as possible, so as to keep the number of unknowns as small as possible. Both [astronomer/military consultant Allen] Hynek and former USAF staffers have confirmed this. If a witness said the object ‘looked sort of like a balloon’ the BB conclusion was ‘balloon’ and so on, even though the witness may have also said that the object flew against the wind, performed maneuvers, and so on.”

Also consider the arbitrary nature of what sorts of incidents did and didn’t make it into the federal database. Like Blue Book, the late John Reiss, who contributed to planetary missions from Viking to Cassini at his Kennedy Space Center office, included not only American cases in his inventory, but fairly dramatic incidents abroad. Take two of his index cards from 1967. One occurred in Durban, South Africa; the other in Arbroath, Scotland. In both cities, temporary power outages and blackouts occurred as UFOs passed overhead. Neither example of apparent UFO electromagnetic effects made it into the official U.S. military ledger.

That said, for veteran researchers like Jan Aldrich, whose meticulously documented and often surprising Project 1947 website recently expanded its Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard archives of obscure encounters at sea, Blue Book’s more efficiently catalogued database could prove a windfall for organization and cross-referencing.

“It is a big deal for me,” Aldrich tells De Void in an email. “Easier to find material when it is on line. No more trying to find a microfilm reader. I have already used it quite a bit ... When you put everything in one pile, things start to come together.”

Blue Book and its mind-numbing caseload of 12,618 events came to an end in 1969, decades before the digital age changed everything. This week’s announcement that those archives had slipped the paywall made me imagine John Reiss back in the day, an old Smith Corona at the ready, combing through multiple sources for piecemeal EMF data linked to The Great Taboo. There he is, positioning each and every little index card into the paper roller, twisting the platen knobs, tapping out pica-font keystrokes, flush left, flush left, cranking the carriage-lever return, adding card after card to the burgeoning stack of evidence. But to what end? He will keep his lonely mission to himself, never sharing his obsession over the mystery of the age with colleagues at KSC. He had no heirs. And he had no answers.

De Void suspects Reiss would be having a field day now, working the forbidding volume of online documents with relative ease, for whatever they can give him, for clues, for patterns, for insight into his own character maybe, amid the thankless tedium where curiosity itself may be the only reward worth chasing.
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