Quatermass and the Charity Fundraiser
The U.K. has declassified another batch of UFO files. According to Reuters, one of the documents
reveals how the RAF was inundated with calls one morning in 1967 after residents of southern England awoke to find six small beeping UFOs lying in a perfect line from the Isle of Sheppey to the Bristol Channel.
A bomb disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs, another was airlifted to the southeastern village of Aldermaston and both the army and the MoD's intelligence unit were mobilised for what was considered a real "alien invasion."
It was later discovered that engineering students at Farnborough Technical College had constructed and positioned the UFOs in a bid to raise money for charity.
The newly declassified files are online here. Reason covers an earlier UFO declassification story here.
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It was later discovered that engineering students at Farnborough Technical College had constructed and positioned the UFOs in a bid to raise money for charity.
Classic cover story. I can’t believe people fell for that whitewash.
A bomb disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs,
Man, that takes some stones.
“Corporal, what we have here is an operating artifact from an interstellar civilization of unknown capability and intent. I see no other course but to blow it the fuck up, just to see what happens next.”
Yeah, it’s riskier to capture them intact, but you’re rewarded with a better haul in artifacts and precious Elerium-115.
Maybe they were trying to dupe them into thinking that there was no intelligent life on this planet.
Why would anyone assume that objects sitting on the ground were UFOs.
Unidentified, maybe, but flying? Doesn’t sound like it to me.
You know when I really got confident about my beliefs? It was after I read “The Demon-haunted World” by Carl Sagan and realized that my core tenets of libertarianism, atheism, and skepticism dwelled in that funny shape of the Venn diagram where all three overlapped.
wow, just unbelivable
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