Our airspace - still open to unidentified attack?
By Pat Regan, Southport author and researcher
MoD: in 2009 they closed their defensive UFO hotline, meaning lots of potential threats to our airspace failed to ever be properly analysed and recorded.
The following ‘North
West UFO Research’ (a UFO monitoring focal pointy that I previously set up) data
will explain that situation, for anyone who missed story in 2009. This is how
it went…
Shock in the UFO community as the MoD’s UFO investigation service shuts down.
North West UFO Research (NWUR) update
Reports filtered into the press on December 4th 2009
Information
concerning how to report a UFO sighting to the MoD has recently been
compromised with the shutdown of the MoD UFO facility.
This move is the result of an internal re-organisation
within the Ministry of Defence and there will be no alteration to existing MoD
policy relating to UFOs explaining that the Ministry of Defence has
stopped investigating reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs)
in the UK. A telephone number and email address which allowed the public to
report sightings for examination was closed on 1st December after the MoD
decided the service was an "inappropriate use of defence resources."
The closure of this facility was revealed in a Freedom of Information request
released via the MoD website.
The report explained that the MoD had dealt with more than
12,000 reports since it launched the reporting service in 1950; including 135
last year. The service had cost approximately £50,000 a year to operate and was
based at RAF Command in High Wycombe.
In an announcement the MoD said:
"The MoD has no opinion on the existence or
otherwise of extra-terrestrial life."
"However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has
revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom."
"The MoD has no specific capability for
identifying the nature of such sightings. "
"There is no defence benefit in such investigation and
it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources. Furthermore, responding
to reported UFO sightings diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to
defence. "
"Accordingly, and in order to make best use of defence
resources, we have decided that from the 1 December 2009 the dedicated UFO
hotline answer-phone service and e-mail address will be withdrawn. MoD will no
longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
They however added that the ongoing programme to release
departmental files on UFO matters to the National Archive will carry on.
Of course that will also eventually dry up because the MoD
are not we presume logging any more data of this issue.
Pat Regan of NWUR
addresses the issue below:
I was not very surprised when I heard this astonishing news
as my own experience with the MoD has been one of them showing indifference.
They were quite content to largely ignore my requests to investigate UFOs
pictured flying close to RAF warplanes, consequently what more can I say? This
agency is in existence to protect our sovereign air space and this latest
revelation appears to leave the back door wide open for any form of unknown
attack on the UK. The MoD’s position therefore seems to be that if an object is
unidentified then they are not really interested. The MoD says: "There is
no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use
of defence resources.” This is absolute nonsense! Can anyone believe such
authoritarian apathy is these times of terrorist incursion?
Today, we are hearing of more unexplained sighting of
mystery objects in our skies than ever before yet the MoD are washing their
hands of the issue. This action, or perhaps I should say “none –action,” is
simply too bizarre for words! I asked Nick Pope what he thought about the
closure, he stated: “Having worked on the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 I am
sorry to see MoD disengage in this way. I believe that where evidence suggests
that UK airspace has been penetrated by an unidentified object, this must
automatically be of defence interest and should be investigated properly.
Indeed, I am sure that sightings from pilots and uncorrelated targets tracked
on radar will continue to be looked at, albeit outside of a formally
constituted UFO project.”
Nick continued: “From the Fifties to the present day, MoD
received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of
ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.”
Pat Regan added:
"Apparently the MoD’s UFO facility is being axed to
save money. This is absurd as the staff members who have worked herein will
most likely just be reassigned to other duties within the department. This
closure therefore is false economy, a subterfuge to conceal authoritarian
lethargy toward a vital issue and it will possibly be only a question of time
until mounting public pressure demands that the MoD reopen this unique
facility. We need to know what is flying though our skies – not ignoring the
question."
Source: North
West UFO Research
Pat Regan:
"We shall remain vigilant and keep watching the skies. I also continue to
urge the media to report the many public UFO sightings that come in. Now that the
MoD has 'dropped the ball'
we have to rely on the press to find out what is flying through our skies.
Moreover, in these times of serious terrorist inroads this is not a joking
matter. "
Today, we are presumably left with the same situation. Potential threats to our airspace go unrecorded and it is up to the media and the public themselves to shout out if and when they spot anything strange in our skies. This seems a very odd way to run any proper defensive system!
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