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UFO research guide, August 2011

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The National Archives issued this UFO research briefing guide, written by Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University in March 2008 and revised in August 2011. It traces British government interest in UFOs from the 1909 phantom airships and wartime foo fighters through the 1951 Flying Saucer Working Party, Air Ministry and MoD investigations, and the 1979 House of Lords debate. It lists key files held at Kew, including Rendlesham Forest papers, plus suggestions for further reading.

  • p. 1 …The acronym UFO is an abbreviation for the US Air Force term ‘Unidentified Flying Object.’ It…
  • p. 2 …Initially intelligence officers at the Air Ministry believed the ‘flying bombs’ (RV Jones memoirs, ‘Most Secret…
  • p. 3 …Reports and correspondence between the Foreign Office, Air Ministry and the British air attaché in Stockholm…
  • p. 4 …Air Ministry investigations 1952-64 The sceptical conclusions of the Flying Saucer Working Party set the…
  • p. 5 …the Air Ministry Secret Intelligence Summary (AMSIS) during March 1955 (DEFE 31/118 and AIR 40…
  • p. 6 …Air Ministry became part of the new Ministry of Defence and the three separate service intelligence…
  • p. 8 …Policy files created by the former Air Ministry DDI (Tech) and their successor, the Defence Intelligence…
  • p. 11 …by the Defence Intelligence Staff branch DI55 and their predecessors, Air Ministry DDI (Tech). Policy files…
  • p. 12 …Intelligence Staff concerning UFOs as a potential hazard to civil aviation. AIR 2/19119 and AIR…
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• Haines, Gerald K. ‘A die-hard issue: CIA's role in the study of UFOs, 1947-90',
Studies in Intelligence: Semiannual Unclassified Edition 1 (1997), 67-84
• Jones, R.V. ‘The natural philosophy of flying saucers,' Physics Bulletin 19 (July
1968), 225-30
• Morgan, Roger J. ‘British Government UFO files in the Public Record Office,'
Magonia 30 (August 1988), 12-15
Dr David Clarke of the Department of Journalism and Communication, Sheffield Hallam
University created this briefing document for The National Archives, in March 2008.
Revisions were made in February 2010, January and August 2011. The National
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