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This briefing guide, written by Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University for The National Archives in March 2008 and revised through June 2012, explains the British government's involvement with UFOs from 1909 onward. It covers phantom airships, foo fighters, ghost rockets, the 1950 Flying Saucer Working Party, Air Ministry and MoD investigations, and the 1979 House of Lords debate. It also lists key National Archives file references, including the Rendlesham Forest papers, and notes that MoD found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin.
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14 http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchP ublicationScheme/UfoReportsInTheUk.htm The MoD website also contains a PDF copy of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) study 'UAPs in the UK Air Defence Region', completed in 2000 and released as a result of an FOI request in May 2006: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchP ublicationScheme/UnidentifiedAerialPhenomenauapInTheUkAirDefenceRegion.htm 8. Suggestions for further reading Publications Brookesmith, Peter. UFO – The government files. London: Blandford, 1996 Bruni, Georgina. You Can't Tell the People. London: Pan/Macmillan, 2001 Clancarty, Lord with Michell, John. The House of Lords UFO Debate. London: Open Head Press, 1979. Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy. Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs A Modern Myth? London: Robert Hale, 1990 Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy. Out of the Shadows: UFOs, the Establishment and the official cover-up. London: Piatkus, 2002 Clarke, David. The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real Life Sightings. London: The National Archives, 2009 (due for release, September 2009). Coates, Tim (editor). UFOs in the House of Lords 1979. London: HMSO, 2000 Fawcett, Lawrence and Greenwood, Barry J. Clear Intent: The government cover-up of the UFO experience. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1984 Gillmor, Daniel S. (ed). The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. : London: Vision, 1969 Good, Timothy. Above Top Secret. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987 Gough, Jack. Watching the Skies: The history of ground radar in the air defence of the United Kingdom. London: HMSO, 1993 Jones, R.V. Most Secret War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979 Pope, Nick. Open Skies, Closed Minds. London: Simon & Schuster, 1996 Rundles, Jenny. The UFO Conspiracy. London: Blandford, 1987 Randles, Jenny. UFO Retrievals: The Recovery of Alien Spacecraft. London: Blandford, 1995 Randles, Jenny. MIB: Investigating the truth behind the Men in Black phenomenon. London: Piatkus, 1997 Randles, Jenny. Something in the Air. London: Hale, 1998 Randles, Jenny. UFO Crash Landing? Blandford, 1998 Redfern, Nicholas. A Covert Agenda: The British Government's UFO top secrets exposed. London: Simon & Schuster, 1997 Redfern, Nicholas. The FBI Files. London: Simon & Schuster 1998 Redfern, Nicholas. Cosmic Crashes. London: Simon & Schuster, 1999 Ruppelt, Edward J. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. London: Gollancz, 1957 Twigge, Steven with Hampshire, Edward and Macklin, Graham. British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources. Kew: The National Archives, 2008
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 15 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.