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UK UFO Files Reveal Schoolchildren’s Sketches of 1977 ‘Alien Encounter’

Article by Alex McIntyre                                        March 13, 2021                                    (cheshire-live.co.uk)

• UFO files released in 2009 by the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk have revealed children’s sketches of what appears to be an alien spaceship at the Upton Priory School in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England in October 1977.

• On this day, ten children at the school, aged between 7 and 11 years old, had gone out for their lunchtime break. When they came back, they told a teacher, Mrs. Hindmarsh, that they had seen something hovering around the trees before it vanished into the sky. The teacher told the children to draw what they had seen independently of each other using crayons and colored pencils. The images were so striking that she passed the drawings along to police in Cheshire.

• After checking with air traffic control in Manchester to see if they had anything on the radar, a Chesire police officer passed the pictures along with his written report to the UK Ministry of Defence, saying that there was ‘a remarkable similarity in these sketches with regard to the UFO and its location between two trees’. The file was then passed along from the Ministry of Defence in London to the MoD’s UFO desk.

• “It really is quite something,” said Dr. David Clarke, a professor at Sheffield Hallam University who was involved in transferring the ministry’s files into the public domain between 2009 and 2013. Said Dr. Clarke, “When I opened this particular (file), it struck me as more interesting than the usual, because it was full of all these crayon drawings by these schoolkids from Macclesfield.” “[T]he teacher must have thought this was something to be taken seriously and sat them down to get them to draw what they had seen independently. Then, because the drawings were so similar she actually gathered them together and took them to the police station in Macclesfield.”

• The Macclesfield case images were “just so amazing” that Dr. Clarke featured them in his book UFO Drawings from The National Archives, published in September 2017. Dr. Clarke speculated that the children could have been inspired to draw a spaceship in the trees due to the fact that the sci fi movie ‘Star Wars’ had been released earlier that summer.

 

      student’s drawing of UFO

UFO files released by the Ministry of Defence have revealed children’s sketches of what

               student’s drawing of UFO

appears to be an alien spaceship at a Cheshire school in 1977.

The pictures drawn by school pupils at Upton Priory School in Macclesfield were made public by the MoD’s UFO Desk shortly before it closed down in 2009.

The documents reveal that the sighting occurred in October 1977 when 10 children at the school, aged between seven and 11 years old, had gone out for their lunchtime break.

         student’s sketch of UFO

They came back and told a teacher, Mrs Hindmarsh, that they had seen something hovering around the trees before it vanished into the sky.

        Cheshire, England

The teacher told the children to draw what they had seen independently of each other using crayons and coloured pencils.

The images were so striking that she passed the dossier to police in Cheshire before it ended up at the UFO desk at the Ministry of Defence.

In a covering letter, the police officer said there was ‘a remarkable similarity in these sketches with regard to the UFO and its location between two trees’.

Dr David Clarke, a former journalist and currently a professor at Sheffield Hallam University, was involved in transferring the ministry’s files into the public domain between 2009 and 2013.

 Dr. David Clarke  (credit: Richard Hanson)

Speaking to CheshireLive, he said: “When I opened this particular one, it struck me as more interesting than the usual, because it was full of all these crayon drawings by these schoolkids from Macclesfield.

“I suppose kids say all kinds of things about things they’ve seen in playgrounds but the teacher must have thought this was something to be taken seriously and sat them down to get them to draw what they had seen independently.

“Then because the drawings were so similar she actually gathered them together and took them to the police station in Macclesfield.

“Then this copper had written a report about this and sent it to air traffic control in Manchester to see if they had anything on the radar.

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Secret UFO Probes Hidden from UK Government Department

Article by Berny Torre                                       November 23, 2020                                             (dailystar.co.uk)

• Dr. David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University in South Yorkshire, England took the time to read a 400-page study into 10,000 UFO sightings investigated from 1997 to 2000 by a department of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) known as the ‘Defence Intelligence Staff’. The investigations concluded that UFOs had an “indisputable” observable presence but there was no evidence to suggest they were “hostile or under any type of control”.

• Clarke noted that “[t]he (UFO reporting system) system was extremely complicated. [T]here was at various times two or three different departments of the British Ministry of Defence who were involved in investigating UFOs or responding to the public.” Any UFO incidents that were deemed to have some kind of military significance were passed along to the Defence Intelligence Staff, or ‘DI55’, to investigate.

• Military officials often kept their UFO findings secret from civil servants over fears the information would be leaked, said Clarke. DI55 investigators tasked with hunting ETs “didn’t trust” civil servants briefing ministers with their data.

• Clarke told UFO Podcast’s Martin Willis that although the famed UFO hunter, Nick Pope, often refers to his days in the 1990 working at the UFO desk in the Ministry of Defence, he was just one of dozens of different people who did that task and he didn’t actually investigate anything. “He just received reports and filed them. He was a civil servant.” said Clarke. “He might run a few checks with a local radar station but that’s as far as time allowed.”

• “I’ve interviewed most of the people who worked on this subject in DI55 at that time,” added Clarke. “They tell me, ‘well Nick Pope didn’t have any involvement in this, we did the (UFO) investigations, we didn’t share information with them because we didn’t trust them’. “(Pope) was a civilian who was briefing ministers. He was doing PR work.”

 

          Dr. David Clarke

Britain’s secret UFO investigators kept their findings hidden from the Government, an academic has claimed.

Dr David Clarke, of Sheffield Hallam University, said the Ministry of Defence team tasked with hunting ETs “didn’t trust” civil servants briefing ministers with their data.

The lecturer and investigative journalist uncovered the Defence Intelligence Staff’s 400-page study into 10,000 UFO sightings in 2005.

He has now said its military officials often kept their findings secret from civil servants over fears the information would be leaked.

               Nick Pope in the 1990s

Dr Clarke added former Government UFO investigators who have gone public over the findings such as Nick Pope “didn’t investigate anything”.

He told the UFO Podcast with Martin Willis: “There was a UFO desk where he was an incumbent for three years but he was just one of dozens of different people who did that task and he didn’t actually investigate anything.

“He just received reports and filed them. He was a civil servant, there was a body that investigated cases and it was known as the Defence Intelligence Staff, DI55, and they were the people who were tasked to investigate UFO incidents that were deemed to have some kind of military significance.”

The UFO investigator added: “The system was extremely complicated and there was at various times two or three different departments of the British Ministry of Defence who were involved in investigating UFOs or responding to the public.

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Near Miss Investigations Prompt Renowned ‘X Files’ Investigator to Speak Out

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Article by Joanna Morris                       September 9, 2019                    (thenorthernecho.co.uk)

• Included in a list of aviation near-misses reported to the UK Airprox Board is a UFO seen by a pilot cruising above Barnard Castle in February 2017. According to the pilot, the UFO was flying “almost directly overhead (of) the aircraft in the opposite direction” as the plane traveled at an altitude approaching 18,000 ft. The UFO passed at high speed 200 ft above the aircraft, and remained in view for just two seconds.

• The Airprox report reflects a situation in which the distance between an aircraft and the object could have compromised the safety of the aircraft. There were 36 such reports involving unknown objects in UK airspace investigated by the Board between 2017 and 2019, according to analysis by Newsquest’s Data Investigations Unit. The Civil Aviation Authority said it was likely that most reports involved drones, model aircraft or balloons.

• The pilot in the Barnard Castle case initially believed the moving object could have been a military jet or potentially a drone. However, many reports reviewed by the board involved sightings of unknown objects at thousands of feet off the ground, at heights above drone capability.

• Nick Pope, who investigated UFO sightings for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), said there were many incidents that deserved more interrogation. Said Pope, “[M]any reports being attributed to drone activity should more properly be characterized as ‘unknown objects’.” We’re “being too quick to blame drones”.

• Pope continued, “The situation has been under-resourced since the 2009 termination of the MoD’s UFO program, and while I’m aware that the MoD continues to study such matters, more should be done.”

• UFO researcher Glen Richardson said he receives multiple reports a year relating to potential alien activity in the North-East, including claims of abduction. Richardson thinks the UK authorities could be working covertly to investigate such cases, and urged them to be more transparent about their findings.

• Dr David Clarke with the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University said, “Things that are unexplained are likely to be natural phenomenon – not aliens from other planets. That’s not to say those reports are of no interest.”

• A Ministry of Defence spokesman said that with the millions of flights in UK airspace each year, “[t]he low number of these incidents highlight the professionalism of commercial, military and private aviators.”

 

A REAL-LIFE X Files investigator has joined a UFO researcher from the North-East in calling for more to be done to uncover the truth behind mysterious objects spotted in the skies.

A unidentified flying object seen by a pilot cruising above Barnard Castle is included in a list of near-misses reported to the organisation responsible for monitoring close calls that could compromise the safety of aircraft in flight.

In February 2017, the moving object caught the captain’s attention, flying “almost directly overhead the aircraft in the opposite direction” as the plane travelled at an altitude approaching 18,000ft.

According to data from the UK Airprox Board, the angular and fast-moving entity passed at high speed and remained in view for just two seconds, approximately 200ft above the aircraft.

An Airprox report reflects a situation in which the distance between an aircraft and the object could have compromised the safety of the aircraft.

There were 36 such reports involving unknown objects in UK airspace investigated by the Board between 2017 and 2019, according to analysis by Newsquest’s Data Investigations Unit.

The Civil Aviation Authority said it was likely that most reports involved drones, model aircraft or balloons.

The pilot in the Barnard Castle case initially believed the moving object could have been a military jet or potentially a drone.

However, many reports reviewed by the board involved sightings of unknown objects at thousands of feet off the ground at heights drones would struggle to reach.

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Near Miss in Birmingham Skies Among Dozens of Pilot UFO Reports

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Article by Bev Holder                     September 9, 2019                       (stourbridgenews.co.uk)

• British pilots have reported dozens of “near misses” with UFOs in the skies over the United Kingdom. Investigations by the UK Airprox Board showed 36 such near misses involving aircraft and ‘unknown objects’ since May 2017 – with nearly a quarter of them involving a “high risk” of collision.

• On July 5, 2018 at around 9:30 am, the pilot of a small propeller aircraft reported a small “rectangle or elliptical object pass 500 to 1,000-ft below” the plane as he was cruising at around 16,000-ft about 10 nautical miles north of Birmingham. “There was no time to take any avoiding action.”

• The pilot of an Airbus A321 was flying at around 900-ft on final approach to Birmingham Airport “when he saw an object pass directly beneath the aircraft”. The pilot said that the object, which passed about 25 feet below the plane, “was either some sort of balloon or drone”. The Board listed this one as a category ‘A’ high risk of collision event.

• The Civil Aviation Authority says the vast majority of reports involved drones, model aircraft or balloons – although it is against the law to fly drones above 400-ft and close to airports.

• Nick Pope, who investigated UFO sightings for the Ministry of Defence in the 1990s, says the authorities may be “missing a trick by being too quick to blame drones”. Most unidentified objects were sighted at altitudes much higher than drones would typically or can legally be flown.

• The UK Airprox Board has a significant number of such accounts and there are numerous reports in the MoD’s UFO files. Pope says that, “In most cases, sightings turn out to be birds, weather balloons, plastic bags or bin liners, or Chinese lanterns, while some are indeed attributable to drones. However, other cases remain unexplained even after thorough investigation, and this is of concern.” “[I]t raises important defense, national security and – as we see here – air safety issues.”

• Dr David Clarke, from the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University, is not convinced the sightings are of intergalactic spacecraft. “Things that are unexplained are likely to be natural phenomenon – not aliens from other planets.”

• David Taylor of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena believes we should be cautious about witness testimonies of strange objects in the sky. “The majority of all anomalous reports – I would say around 95 per cent – are explainable in rational terms, either with known phenomena (misidentification, drones, birds, military tests etc.) and currently little understood phenomena (ball lightning, earthquake lights etc).” But, Taylor says, “[W]e must resist the temptation to dismiss them all out of hand.”

 

A close encounter with a mystery object in the skies near Birmingham was among dozens of baffling near misses reported by pilots in UK airspace, a Newsquest data investigation has revealed.

Investigations carried out by the UK Airprox Board show 36 such near misses involving aircraft and ‘unknown objects’ have been reported in UK skies since May 2017 – and nearly a quarter involved a high risk of collision.

One of the reports tells how the pilot of a BE90 small propeller aircraft saw a “rectangle or elliptical object pass 500 to 1,000-ft below” the plane as he was cruising at around 16,000-ft about 10 nautical miles north of Birmingham.

The incident happened on July 5, 2018, at around 9.30am, and the report states the pilot estimated the object to be 50-100cm long and it was “either hovering or travelling in the opposite direction” but “he only saw it for about 2 seconds before it passed underneath the aircraft”.

The Board, which monitors close calls between aircraft and other objects in the skies such as drones and balloons, determined the risk of collision was low but the report stated: “There was no time to take any avoiding action.”

Another incident involving an ‘unknown object’ was listed as a category A high risk of collision event and the report says the pilot of an Airbus A321 was flying at around 900-ft on final approach to Birmingham Airport “when he saw an object pass directly beneath the aircraft”.

It says the reported separation between the aircraft and the unidentified object was just 25-ft vertically and it adds that the pilot “thought it was either some sort of balloon or drone”.

The Board concluded there had been a definite risk of collision but it was not able to ascertain whether the object was a drone or a balloon so it was listed as ‘unknown’.

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Perfectly Smooth Shell of a Craft” – A Look Inside The Real Secret Space Program

by Arjun Walia                   March 26, 2019                       (collective-evolution.com)

• In spite of disinformation campaigns, bad journalism, and infiltration by intelligence agencies into mainstream media outlets that try to convince the public through “an official campaign of ridicule and secrecy” that there is no such thing as UFOs, we know that they’re real. There is a plethora of credible sources – including documents, data, physical evidence, and more – suggesting we’re not alone, and that we have been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial beings from other worlds and possibly other dimensions.

• Garry McKinnon, for example, spent ten years in danger of extradition from the UK to the US for accessing nearly 100 NASA and military computers including the United States Space Command. On this government website, McKinnon found a photo of a large cylindrical shaped UFO hovering in space, a list of “non-terrestrial officers”, and logs of “fleet to fleet” transfers of materials. Is this evidence of a Secret Space Program using reverse engineered ET technology?

• Dr. David Clarke, an international investigative journalist who regularly comments on UFOs, said, “… the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology… [and] were desperate to capture this technology… before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first.”

• In the US, these UFO investigative and research efforts are hidden within Special Access Programs which contain both unacknowledged and waived SAPs. Better known as ‘deep black programs’, these programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. We know that there is a black budget to fund these programs. A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”

• According to Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics in the 1950’s, “flying saucers are real and . . . they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” “We have, indeed, been contacted — perhaps even visited — by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”

• Former Chief of Defence Staff, Five-Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, said: “There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy… we have no means of stopping them from coming here… there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations… This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”

• There are literally hundreds of people with extensive academic, political and military backgrounds, all the way to astronauts, who have been blowing the whistle on extraterrestrial UFOs for a very long time. Many scientific publications describe radar-confirmed military sightings of UFOs by military pilots.

• The point is, if you believe some of these UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial, you are not alone.

 

The field of UFOlogy has long been muddled with disinformation campaigns and bad journalism, and sometimes this journalism includes infiltration efforts by intelligence agencies themselves. This is clear given the fact that intelligence agencies have a direct relationship with journalists and mainstream media outlets, as there are declassified documents showing so. Operation Mockingbird is a great example, not to mention all of the mainstream media journalists who have come out and said that mainstream media is directly influenced by intelligence agencies, governments and corporations. When it comes to UFOs, we know that they’re real, but we also know that along with that reality there has been “an official campaign of ridicule and secrecy.” (Ex-CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter) Perhaps this ridicule campaign carries on today through some rather ghastly, unbelievable claims, but let’s not let that mask the fact that this phenomenon is indeed real, and there are a plethora of credible sources including documents, data, physical evidence, and more suggesting we’re not alone, and that we probably are being visited and have been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial beings from other worlds and possibly other dimensions.

A lot of this evidence has come from UFOlogist Richard Dolan, who has always been a key resource for me with regards to accessing credible information about the UFO phenomenon. I find that it’s important to seek out proper researchers who share information in a credible and verifiable way, especially about a subject that can so easily be ridiculed when you are trying to reach the masses who don’t have much knowledge about it, but are genuinely curious. I also feel that my generation of UFO researchers lack proper research and investigative skills, are easily influenced and swayed, and in the age of social media are simply trying to share whatever they can, no matter how credible, to simply ‘stay relevant,’ instead of doing it for the love and genuine desire to share important, truthful information.

Like I said, there are some rather ‘outside the box claims’ out there that have absolutely no credibility behind them, and to share those actually does more disservice to the movement, in my opinion. On the other hand, there are some very outside the box claims and information that do indeed have tremendous amounts of credibility behind them, and these are the ones we should be paying attention to.

One example comes from the case of Garry McKinnon, who for 10 years was in great danger of extradition to the United States for accessing nearly 100 NASA and military computers including the United States Space Command. This was the real deal, as Obama and the UK Prime Minister at the time revealed while fielding a question about Garry. This breach made headline news.

Gary was able to access these computers in real time and view files on them. He found some startling pictures, one in particular was of a large cylindrical shaped UFO hovering in space, in addition to a strange spreadsheet document with a list of “non-terrestrial officers,” presumably belonging to a publicly unacknowledged branch of the United States military operating in space, as well as “fleet to fleet” transfers of materials, whatever that means.

The Real Secret Space Program

Is there a secret space program, and have clandestine groups been reverse engineering ET technology?

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Britain’s Race to Beat Russia to Alien Weapons Revealed in Secret Files

by Mark Branagan              July 1, 2018               (express.co.uk)

• According to a 1000-page dossier called “UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) in the UK Air Defence Region” recently obtained by British X-Files expert Dr. David Clarke, the British government had been running two separate UFO desks. The public UFO desk was only set up to gather reports of sightings. The real work was being done by experts within Defence Intelligence.

• The dossier reveals that the RAF (Royal Air Force) was “particularly interested in any novel technologies which might be useful to their programmes”. Intelligence service chiefs urged the British government to be on the alert for sightings of strange foreign aircraft showing sinister signs of extraterrestrial tinkering. “Particular attention should be paid to any aircraft behaving like a UFO with the tell-tale signs of “high velocities, sharp manoeuvre, stationary ‘flight’, and few radar returns”.

• British spies planned to capture a flying saucer and use its alien technology to build superweapons, the secret files revealed. After the Cold War, there were fears that the Soviet Union or China were harvesting UFO secrets to develop superfast warplanes that could hover in mid-air and be invisible to radar.

• By 1997, the British government had determined that investigating things such as ‘alien abductions’ had become “a diversion from their main duties” and ordered the X-Files desks to be shut down. This 1000-page dossier was held back from the UFO records earmarked for transfer to the National Archives as part of the Open Government project from 2008 to 2013. But earlier this year, a complete set of redacted copies of the dossier was sent to Dr. Clarke ahead of its release to the National Archives. Says Dr. Clarke, “Even though they have been partly censored they can’t conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFOs.”

 

BRITISH spies planned to capture a flying saucer and use its alien technology to build superweapons, secret files reveal. Even after the Cold War, there were fears that the Soviet Union or China had impounded a UFO and were harvesting its secrets to develop superfast warplanes that could hover in mid-air and be invisible to radar.

Intelligence service chiefs urged the Government to be on the alert for sightings of strange foreign aircraft showing sinister signs of extraterrestrial tinkering.

The dossier, obtained by British XFiles expert Dr David Clarke, reveals the Government was running two UFO desks.

  Dr. David Clarke

The public UFO desk was only set up to gather reports of sightings.

The real work was being done by experts from Defence Intelligence.

For half a century, spy bosses pored over the reports convinced they represented “as grave a threat to the Realm as the Soviet Union”.

But by 1997, the word had come down from Whitehall that the security services investigating “X-files stuff such as alien abductions” had become “a diversion from their main duties”.

A review was ordered to confirm the desk should be shut down, but also to determine whether anything had been learned over the years which could be useful to military.

The dossier reveals the RAF were “particularly interested in any novel technologies which might be useful to their programmes”.

“Propulsion, stealth, and any novel electromagnetic technologies are of particular interest,” the confidential memos added.

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