Archivos OVNI del Reino Unido — guía de novedades (agosto 2009)

Highlights Guide
This document contains details of how to navigate through the newly released files. We
have included bookmarks in each of the PDF files of key stories and reports highlighted
by Dr David Clarke. This will make it easier to navigate through the files.
For information on the history of government UFO investigations and where these files
fit in please read Dr David Clarke‟s background guide to the files.
Navigating the files using the bookmarks
To view the bookmarks, click on the „Bookmarks‟ tab on the upper left hand side of the
PDF window, the bookmarks tab will expand – as shown below.

1. Click on „Bookmarks‟ tab

The „Bookmarks‟ tab will then expand and a list of relevant bookmarks will be displayed
– as shown below.

2. Bookmark tab will expand.

Clicking on a bookmark will take you to the pages of the file related to that particular
story. To see the details of each bookmark – hover over the red or blue icon that
appears on the top left hand corner of the relevant page of the PDF document – as
shown below.

3. Hover or click on bookmark icons to see detail

Below is information on the key stories and reports of UFO activity contained in these
files. It includes a list of the bookmarks contained in each file, with a short summary of
each bookmark. Please note that not all files contain bookmarks.

Key stories and events featured in the files (red text):

Rendlesham Forest incident, December 1980
The file DEFE 24/1948 covers the Rendlesham incident, Britain‟s best-known UFO
incident. It involves several sightings of lights in the forest, outside the perimeter fence
of RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, by United States Air Force personnel in December 1980.
They claimed a UFO had landed in the forest, leaving traces including markings on the
ground and radiation. The events were detailed in a famous memo to the MoD by Lt Col
Charles Halt (USAF deputy base commander), who was present during one of the
sightings. Halt‟s memo opens this file (p6), which consists largely of correspondence
between the MoD and members of the public from 1983-1995.
Note: This file has previously been released to individuals requesting it under the
Freedom of Information Act. Details of this are given on p4 of the file.
Further material can be found in DEFE 24/1970 (UFOs: Parliamentary correspondence
1985-1995). This file includes background material covering a range of Parliamentary
Questions and private inquiries to the Ministry of Defence from MPs, often forwarding
letters from constituents, on UFO matters.
The file contains the Ministry of Defence‟s final position statement on the Rendlesham
incident in a briefing for the House of Lords Defence Debate (p10-11), along with a
letter from the late Lord Hill-Norton, a former Chief of Defence Staff, to the Rt Hon
Michael Heseltine, then Secretary of State for Defence, where he described the incident
as, “a potential „banana-skin‟ looming for the MoD” (p366-367).

UFOs reported over Belgium - 1989-1990
A story which appears in a number of the files concerns a wave of sightings that
occurred in Belgium during 1989-90. The files reveal how in March 1990 the Belgian Air
Force scrambled F-16 fighters to intercept UFOs reported by police officers and others.
An official statement from the Belgian Air Force sent to the MoD in November 1993 is at
DEFE 24/1970 p86-87. A letter from Malcolm Rifkind to Lord Hill-Norton explains the
MoD was not informed of the incident at the time and concluded there was no threat to
the UK DEFE 24/1970 p58-59.
In addition see (not an exhaustive list):
DEFE 24/1970 p66, p70-71, p75-76 and p86-87
DEFE 24/1960 (p320-324) - a four-page account of the UFOs detected by NATO radars
and F-16 fighters over Belgium in 1990, which remain unexplained. The account, from
General Wilfried de Brouwer, Chief of Operations, Belgian Air Staff confirms that F-16
pilots obtained “lock-ons” with their radars but were unable to explain the phenomena.
DEFE 24/1962 (p177-179)
DEFE 24/1965 (p272)

Cosford incident, 31 March 1993
The file DEFE 24/2086 covers sightings of bright lights seen across central England in
the early hours by police officers and military witnesses (including a police patrol at RAF
Cosford, near Wolverhampton). The file includes more than 30 sightings during a sixhour period. The MoD‟s UFO desk asked the RAF to replay radar tapes but this found
nothing unusual had been detected. However, the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
(ACAS), Sir Anthony Bagnall, was briefed that there was evidence a UFO had evaded
UK defences. It soon emerged that the majority of sightings were caused by the
Russian rocket that launched the Cosmos 2238 satellite, re-entering the earth‟s
atmosphere.
UFO sightings in London, 1993-94
Dozens of sightings of a brightly illuminated oval object were reported over London,
caused by what was actually a Virgin airship advertising the launch of the Ford Mondeo.
Some accounts include sketches and several people refused to believe the UFO was
the airship (see DEFE 24/1963, 1959, 1960 – more details of pages are given in the
regional highlights for London, below).
Aircraft encounters
A number of reports of UFOs sighted by pilots and air crews, along with near-misses
between UFOs and airliners, are included in these files.
DEFE 24/1961 (p381) – a “lit object” passed close to an aircraft approaching
Manchester in January 1995
DEFE 24/1960 (p294) – a “black lozenge-shaped UFO” passed close to an aircraft
over Berkshire in August 1994
DEFE 24/1963 (p198) – a UFO Solar balloon was blamed for an incident at Gatwick
in July 1991
DEFE 24/1970 (p86-87), DEFE 24/1960 (p320-324) – UFOs seen by Belgian Air
Force F-16 fighter pilots in March 1990
DEFE 24/1960 (p424-425) – An air crew flying from Moscow to Tokyo in March 1994
reported seeing a huge object was seen entering the Earth‟s atmosphere over the
Arctic that created a shockwave 200 miles long. The crew reported that the UFO
came in over the [North] pole at an estimated speed of 10-15,000mph. They initially

believed it must have been a Space Shuttle, but subsequently found it was already
down.
UFOs on radar
DEFE 24/1970 (p125) – Ministry of Defence statement from 1993: “I am not aware of
instances where radar operators have detected an object, judged it to be solid, and
not been able to identify it…” continuing, “..we have never detected a structured
aircraft in UK airspace, that has remained unidentified”.
Crop circles
Parliamentary Questions in 1989 and 1990 regarding crop circles are found at:
DEFE 24/1970 (p175-178, p229-231, p275-278)
Attempted alien abductions
DEFE 24/1961 (p191-207) – Staffordshire Police report May 1995 on two youths
who claimed they saw a UFO land in a field at Chasetown. A face appeared and a
voice said: “We want you, come with us.”
UFO attack on cemetery
DEFE 24/1976 (p180) – Cheshire police report from July 1996. A young man
returning home near Widnes ran after seeing a UFO over a cemetery. He reported
that beams of light were projected onto the ground, a wailing noise was heard and
smoke rose from the ground. Investigations at the scene found a hole burned in a
railway sleeper still smouldering when police arrived.
Glastonbury Festival UFO
DEFE 24/1960 (p295-305) – two female festival-goers reported a UFO over the jazz
field in June 1994.
Scotland UFO sightings
DEFE 24/1959-1961 (a number of Scottish sightings are included in these files) –
Bonnybridge, near Stirling, was featured in the national press during 1994-1995 as
Britain‟s hotspot for UFO sightings. A local councillor wrote to John Major asking for
an inquiry and tried to twin the town with Roswell.

Reports of UFO activities according to regions (blue text):
Note: These regional bookmarks are a rough guide only and may not include all of the reports related to
the region featured in this release.

Berkshire
DEFE 24/1960 (p294)
Birmingham
DEFE 24/1970 (p287)
DEFE 24/1976 (p240-241)
Buckinghamshire
DEFE 24/1961 (p14)
Cambridgeshire
DEFE 24/1964 (P152-164)
Cheshire
DEFE 24/1976 (p180)
Cornwall
DEFE 24/1959 (p114, p213)
DEFE 24/1975 (p25)
Derbyshire
DEFE 24/1960 (p46)
Devon
DEFE 24/1965 (p83-86, p330, p333-334)
Essex
DEFE 24/1960 (p85-86)
DEFE 24/1974 (p62)
Hampshire
DEFE 24/1963 (p8-11)
Jersey
DEFE 24/1964 (p138-142)
Lincolnshire
DEFE 24/1959 (p23-25)
DEFE 24/1975 (p237)
London
DEFE 24/1970 (p192-203)
DEFE 24/1959 (p101-110, p282-283)
DEFE 24/1962 (p67-69)
DEFE 24/1963 (p49-54, p112-117)
DEFE 24/1964 (p9-11, p12-13, p308-310)
DEFE 24/1965 (p8-9, p91-92, p94, p216-247, p262-265)

Manchester
DEFE 24/1961 (p381)
DEFE 24/1975 (p172)
Middlesex
DEFE 24/1976 (p109-110)
Northern Ireland
DEFE 24/1974 (p5)
Northamptonshire
DEFE 24/1964 (p240-242)
DEFE 24/1959 (p220)
Norwich
DEFE 24/1960 (p101)
Portsmouth
DEFE 24/1960 (p186-187)
Reading
DEFE 24/1960 (p137)
Scotland
Please note DEFE 24/1960 contains numerous reports from Scotland (see Key Files
notes above) including:
DEFE 24/1960 (p10, p21, 149, p162, p362, p447)
DEFE 24/1961 (p241, p343, p312)
DEFE 24/1975 (p227)
DEFE 24/1976 (p113-115)
DEFE 24/1962 (p274-275)
DEFE 24/1963 (p249-250)
Somerset
DEFE 24/1960 (p295-305)
DEFE 24/1964 (p188)
Southampton
DEFE 24/1960 (p265-267)
Staffordshire
DEFE 24/1961 (p191-207)
DEFE 24/1970 (p299-300, p301-303)
Suffolk
DEFE 24/1974 (p104-106)
Sussex
DEFE 24/1976 (p51)

Teesside
DEFE 24/1963 (p255-257)
Wales
DEFE 24/1975 (p174-176)
West Midlands
DEFE 24/1961 (p332)
Wiltshire
DEFE 24/1959 (p54-55)
DEFE 24/1961 (p319-321)
DEFE 24/1975 (p83-84, p172)
DEFE 24/1976 (p200)
Worcestershire
DEFE 24/1959 (p249)
DEFE 24/1975 (p12)
Yorkshire
DEFE 24/1959 (p288, p368)
DEFE 24/1961 (p88-89, p216)
DEFE 24/1965 (p20)