The National Archives published articles about British UFO sightings that took place during many decades, containing witnesses’ accounts, drawings, questions posed in Parliament and classified briefing notes documenting them. The most recent files included a letter stating Winston Churchill ordered at least a fifty year cover-up of a World War II encounter between a UFO and a military pilot.
UFO Files Accuse Churchill of a Cover-up
Winston Churchill was accused of ordering a cover-up of a WW II encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber off of England’s east coast for at least fifty years because he feared public panic. It’s alleged that he made the orders during a secret wartime meeting with US General Dwight Eisenhower, then commander of the Allied Forces, at an undisclosed location in America.
There were a series of anonymous letters written to the Ministry of Defense in 1999 by a Leicester physicist, the grandson of one of Churchill’s bodyguards, an RAF officer who overheard the conversation, asking about the incident. The bodyguard told his daughter and wife about it. The letter writer claimed he was an expert in astronomy and that he developed software for use in spacecraft thermal engineering. He stressed that he wasn’t bonkers and that he wanted to investigate the science involved with the incident.
WW II British UFO Encounter and Ensuing Meeting
A reconnaissance plane was returning from a mission over occupied Europe when its crew was involved in the incident. The plane was, possibly, near Cumbria when a metallic UFO hounded it. The crew claimed had the UFO silently hovered near them. They photographed the object.
During the clandestine Churchill-Eisenhower meeting, a weapons expert dismissed the idea that the object was a missile. All known scientific explanations were discussed and rejected. When the possibility that the object was a UFO was raised, Churchill issued the order that the incident be kept secret lest mass public panic happen.
British Ministry of Defense Investigated UFO Claim
According to files, the MoD investigated the case but found no written record of the WW II incident. The agency, in a 1999 note, stated it had no expertise in the existence of alien life, but was open minded to the possibility. The MoD has investigated and documented many cases of possible UFOs over the past decades. Some cases have been explained scientifically, such as meteors burning up; however many are unsolved.
While there were no documents supporting the WWII encounter, historians believed it, most likely, occurred. It was known that Churchill was interested in UFOs. He asked for a report about what was, then, called flying saucers and what they were in 1952. Dr David Clarke, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, said the files showed there was concern about mysterious encounters with UFOs during WWII. He thinks there’s some truth to the claim that Churchill issued an order to keep the encounter secret.
Could Churchill’s WW II Cover-up be a Hoax?
In December 1980, there were sightings of a UFO in the UK’s Rendlesham Forest by members of the United States Air Force and Britain’s Royal Air Force and civilians. The object was detected by radar. There was a cover-up. Retired nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman has investigated UFOs for over fifty years, searching for scientific proof of their existence. He specifically mentioned the US Roswell, New Mexico incident and calls cover-ups a “cosmic Watergate,” referring to the US scandal about, then, President Nixon ordering a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex, Washington, DC, then trying to cover it up. These support Churchill’s ordering the cover-up about the WW II incident.
What casts doubt about the validity of a cover-up are two major issues. The first is that there are no records of the WW II UFO encounter, according to media reports. It’s possible that they were destroyed or are still classified as secret. The other issue is that, according to media reports, the letter writer’s identity is unknown, despite the fact that there is enough information given to track him down. Is it possible that there’s a compelling reason to keep his identity confidential? Perhaps. some day, these answers will be known.
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Sources:
“UFO Files: Sightings 'Taken Seriously' by Top British Intelligence Chiefs in 1950s,” Andrew Hough, and Hugh Kmiot, Telegraph.co.uk. Accessed August 8, 2010.
“UFO Files: Winston Churchill 'Feared Panic' over Second World War RAF Incident,” Andrew Hough, and Peter Hutchison, Telegraph.co.uk. Accessed August 8, 2010.
“X-Files Describe Secret UFO Encounters,” Maria Golovnina, Reuters, News.Yahoo.com. Accessed August 8, 2010.
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